Day 65: My Biggest Weakness
In the canteen of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, first-year student Tymek (A) asks Radek (B), a final-year student who works part-time at a bank, about the bank's internship interviews.
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
Radku, jutro mam rozmowę o prestiżowy staż w twoim banku. Podobno kandydatów maglują godzinami.
Radek, I've got an interview for a prestigious internship at your bank tomorrow. Apparently they grill candidates there for hours.
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B
Najpierw piszesz test z Excela, po czym analizujesz po angielsku sprawozdanie finansowe.
First you do an Excel test, and after that you analyse a financial statement in English.
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A
Excel to mój atut, choć angielski mam raczej szkolny. A o co pytają na rozmowie?
Excel's my strong point, though my English is pretty much school-level. And what do they ask in the interview?
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B
O porażki, konflikty i to, czemu akurat bank. No i o największą wadę.
About failures, conflicts and why a bank of all places. And, of course, about your biggest weakness.
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A
Na to mam gotową odpowiedź: jestem perfekcjonistą i za dużo pracuję.
I've got an answer ready for that one: I'm a perfectionist and I work too hard.
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B
Zapomnij, ten frazes słyszymy po dziesięć razy dziennie. Od miesiąca pracuję w rekrutacji i jutro to ja będę cię maglował.
Forget it, we hear that cliché ten times a day. I've been working in recruitment for a month, and tomorrow I'm the one who'll be grilling you.
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A
Czyli znam pytania przed egzaminem? W takim razie jutro udaję, że widzimy się pierwszy raz.
So I know the questions before the exam? In that case, tomorrow I'm pretending we've never met.
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