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| INTRODUCTION |
| Hello and welcome to Polish Survival Phrases brought to you by PolishPod101.com, this course is designed to equip you with the language skills and knowledge to enable you to get the most out of your visit to Poland. You will be surprised at how far a little Polish will go. |
| Now, before we jump in, remember to stop by PolishPod101.com and there, you will find the accompanying PDF and additional info in the post. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
Lesson focus |
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| In Poland, riding the rails is one of the best ways to enjoy your trip and visit as many places as possible, not only at the local level, but for long-distance destinations! In fact, traveling by train can be one more way to see all the wonderful things Poland has to offer! |
| You have to ask for tickets for the pociąg ("train") at one of the ticket offices at the train station. We can accomplish that by asking Proszę bilet na pociąg do... and then your destination. Now, of course, we need a destination. |
| So let's use the wonderful city of Gdańsk, which is located in the northern part of Poland, just along the Baltic Sea. |
| So how do you ask for a ticket to Gdańsk? |
| "One ticket to Gdańsk, please," in Polish is Proszę jeden bilet do Gdańska. |
| The sentence is made up of proszę ("please"), followed by jeden bilet ("one ticket"), and the preposition do, meaning "to." |
| The last component is the destination, Gdańsk. |
| If you would like to, you can omit the word jeden, ("one"). It's perfectly fine to say Proszę bilet do Gdańska. |
| What if you would like to know how much a ticket costs before buying it? "How much does a ticket to Gdańsk cost?" in Polish is Ile kosztuje bilet do Gdańska? |
| This sentence is so easy and you know the structure thanks to the previous lessons. In fact, we have ile kosztuje ("how much does cost"), followed by bilet do Gdańska ("a ticket to Gdańsk"). |
| Let's imagine that you are not traveling on your own but with someone else, so you need to ask for two or more tickets. |
| "Two tickets to Gdańsk, please," in Polish is Proszę dwa bilety do Gdańska. As you can see, it's very easy to understand. In place of jeden bilet ("one ticket"), you have the number dwa ("two"). Since the noun bilet is masculine, the number "two" has the form dwa. We talked about it in one of the previous lessons. |
| Next we have the plural form of the noun bilety ("tickets"). |
| And that's it for today! Powodzenia! |
Outro |
| Okay, to close out this lesson, we'd like you to practice what you've just learned. I'll provide you with the English equivalent of the phrase and you're responsible for shouting it aloud. |
| You have a few seconds before I give you the answer, so powodzenia, which means “good luck” in Polish. |
| "One ticket to Gdańsk, please." - Proszę jeden bilet do Gdańska. |
| Proszę jeden bilet do Gdańska. |
| Proszę jeden bilet do Gdańska. |
| "How much does a ticket to Gdańsk cost?" - Ile kosztuje bilet do Gdańska? |
| Ile kosztuje bilet do Gdańska? |
| Ile kosztuje bilet do Gdańska? |
| "Two tickets to Gdańsk, please." - Proszę dwa bilety do Gdańska. |
| Proszę dwa bilety do Gdańska. |
| Proszę dwa bilety do Gdańska. |
| All right, that's going to do it for today. Remember to stop by PolishPod101.com and pick up the accompanying PDF. If you stop by, be sure to leave us a comment. |
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