Day 52: Fifty-Fifty, He Says
In a shared office at the University of Zielona Góra, young sociologist Rafał (A) shows his colleague and co-author Ala (B) the first results of his team's survey on how couples divide the housework.
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
Alu, mamy przełom! Dwie trzecie ojców w naszej próbie deklaruje, że obowiązki domowe dzieli z partnerką po równo.
Ala, we've got a breakthrough! Two thirds of the fathers in our sample say they share the housework equally with their partner.
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B
Kluczowe jest tu słowo „deklaruje”. A matki pytaliście o to samo?
The key word there is "say". And did you ask the mothers the same thing?
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A
Pytaliśmy oboje rodziców, każde osobno. Na ankiety od matek czekaliśmy półtora miesiąca.
We asked both parents, each one separately. We waited a month and a half for the mothers' questionnaires.
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B
I ile z nich potwierdza tę sielankę?
And how many of them confirm this idyll?
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A
Niecała jedna trzecia. Według matek ojcowie wykonują najwyżej jedną czwartą obowiązków.
Just under a third. According to the mothers, the fathers do a quarter of the chores at most.
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B
Podręcznikowy efekt aprobaty społecznej. Do referatu lepszego wyniku nie mogliśmy sobie wymarzyć.
A textbook social desirability effect. We couldn't have dreamt of a better result for our paper.
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A
Tylko nie generalizujmy. Ja na przykład naprawdę robię w domu połowę, a mamy dwoje małych dzieci.
Let's not generalise, though. I, for one, really do half the work at home, and we've got two small children.
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B
Świetnie, to zróbmy badanie pilotażowe. Dzwonię do twojej żony.
Great, then let's run a pilot study. I'm calling your wife.
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