Day 33: Thirty Years of Team-Building
On a park bench in Bielsko-Biała, Teresa (A) asks her old friend Danuta (B) about her new part-time job in the former cloth factory where they both once worked.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- 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.
- 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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A
Danusiu, podobno wróciłaś do pracy? I to do naszej starej fabryki?
Danusia, I hear you've gone back to work? And to our old factory, of all places?
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B
Na recepcji. W hali, w której obie stałyśmy przy krosnach, jest teraz firma informatyczna.
On reception. The hall where we both stood at the looms is an IT company now.
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A
Wnuczka twierdzi, że tam nawet do prezesa mówi się po imieniu.
My granddaughter says they even call the CEO by his first name there.
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B
Prezes, z którym jestem na ty, chodzi w trampkach. Tylko nikt z nikim nie rozmawia.
The CEO, who I'm on first-name terms with, wears trainers. It's just that nobody talks to anybody.
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A
U nas to był rytuał: cała zmiana jadła śniadanie przy jednym stole.
In our day it was a ritual: the whole shift had breakfast at one table.
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B
Na imieniny przyniosłam sernik. Po kwadransie gadali wszyscy, a prezes nazwał to spontaniczną integracją.
For my name day I brought in a cheesecake. Within a quarter of an hour everyone was chatting, and the CEO called it spontaneous team-building.
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A
Nic nowego pod słońcem. Trzydzieści lat piekłyśmy ciasta, nie wiedząc, że to integracja.
Nothing new under the sun. For thirty years we baked cakes without knowing it was team-building.
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