A23 min · 150 words
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First Day at Work
New job, two coffees, one new shirt: Ola's nervous first day at a little publishing house near the Main Square.
You will practice: Past tense of daily routine verbs, ordinal times (o siedemnastej), workplace vocabulary
Words to know
Skim these before you read — they carry the story. Tap the star to add one to your saved words.
- zacząćto start (perfective)
- wydawnictwopublishing house
- niedalekonot far from
- wstaćto get up (perfective)
- denerwować sięto be nervous
- włożyćto put on (clothes, perfective)
- koszulashirt
- szefowaboss (female)
- biurkodesk
- poznaćto meet, to get to know (perfective)
- zespółteam
- żartjoke
- opowiadaćto tell (stories, jokes)
- trudnydifficult, hard
- wyjśćto leave, to go out (perfective)
- zadzwonićto call (by phone, perfective)
- najważniejszythe most important
Did you get it?
4 quick questions — no grades, just a comprehension check.
1. Where does Ola work now?
2. Why did Ola get up very early?
3. What does the publishing house make?
4. What can Ola see from the office window?
Too hard? Pick an easier text in the reading library. Understanding most of a text without translations is the goal — struggling through is not.