Day 146 of 158

Day 146: Green Eyes, Then Hazel

In a café in Kluczbork, Fabian (A) takes his friend Julita (B), who runs a book podcast, to task over her latest episode, a forty-minute takedown of a bestselling romance novel.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense. Point at (or tap) a Polish word to see what it means.
  3. Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Polish, for example from the Resources page. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.

Dialogue

Audio recordings are on the way. For now, each lesson is the dialogue with its English translation.

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  1. A

    Julito, wysłuchałem twojego nowego odcinka. Czterdzieści minut miażdżenia lekkiej prozy, którą czyta się na leżaku?

    Julita, I listened to your new episode. Forty minutes of tearing apart light fiction that people read on a sun lounger?

  2. B

    Bo to bestseller, a o bestsellerach mało kto mówi uczciwie. Kilkaset tysięcy sprzedanych egzemplarzy to jeszcze nie argument.

    Because it's a bestseller, and hardly anyone talks honestly about bestsellers. Several hundred thousand copies sold isn't an argument in itself.

  3. A

    Romansu nie ocenia się jak kandydata do Nobla, tylko po tym, czy daje czytelnikom to, czego szukają.

    You don't judge a romance like a Nobel contender, but by whether it gives readers what they're looking for.

  4. B

    Szukają też odrobiny staranności. Bohaterka w trzecim rozdziale ma zielone oczy, a w dziesiątym piwne.

    They're also looking for a bit of care. In chapter three the heroine has green eyes, and in chapter ten they're hazel.

  5. A

    To zwykły błąd redakcyjny. Przyznaj jednak, że akcja wciąga jak mało który kryminał.

    That's just an editing slip. But admit it, the plot grips you like few crime novels do.

  6. B

    Wciąga, bo każdy rozdział ma ten sam banalny koniec: ktoś trzaska drzwiami i wyjeżdża nad morze. Tak się pisze seriale, a nie powieści.

    It grips you because every chapter has the same trite ending: somebody slams a door and goes off to the seaside. That's how you write a TV series, not a novel.

  7. A

    Ciekawe, bo w sobotę widziałem cię na spotkaniu z autorką w bibliotece. Stałaś z naręczem jej książek w kolejce po autograf.

    Funny, because on Saturday I saw you at the author's event at the library. You were in the queue for her autograph with an armful of her books.

  8. B

    Z kilkoma, bo krytyczka musi znać cały dorobek autorki, zanim go zmiażdży. To się nazywa rzetelność.

    With a few, because a critic has to know an author's entire output before she tears it apart. It's called being thorough.

  9. A

    A dedykacja „Dla mojej największej fanki” to też rzetelność? Autorka pochwaliła się nią na Instagramie, a kilku znajomych już mi ją przesłało.

    And the inscription 'To my biggest fan', is that being thorough too? The author showed it off on Instagram, and several friends have already forwarded it to me.

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