Polish–English parallel text
Nocna zmiana
The Night Shift
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A bilingual Polish–English edition: the Polish text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Sześć minut
Six minutes
Rosa mieszka w Manili. Ma trzydzieści jeden lat. Pracuje w nocy.
Rosa lives in Manila. She is thirty-one. She works at night.
Jej biuro to call centre na dziesiątym piętrze. Jest tam sto biurek i sto telefonów.
Her office is a call centre on the tenth floor. There are a hundred desks and a hundred phones.
Call centre pracuje dla firmy internetowej w Kanadzie. Ludzie w Kanadzie mają problemy z internetem. Dzwonią, a Rosa odbiera.
The call centre works for an internet company in Canada. People in Canada have problems with their internet. They call, and Rosa answers.
W Manili jest noc. W Kanadzie jest dzień. Rosa pracuje od dziesiątej wieczorem do szóstej rano.
In Manila, it is night. In Canada, it is day. Rosa works from ten in the evening to six in the morning.
Rosa ma skrypt na ekranie. Skrypt ma słowa na każdą rozmowę.
Rosa has a script on her screen. The script has the words for every call.
„Dzień dobry, mam na imię Rosa. W czym mogę pomóc?” To jest pierwsze zdanie ze skryptu.
“Hello, my name is Rosa. How can I help you?” That is the first line of the script.
Na ekranie jest też zegar. Zegar liczy minuty każdej rozmowy.
On the screen, there is also a clock. The clock counts the minutes of every call.
„Sześć minut” – mówi jej lider zespołu. „Rozmowa trwa sześć minut. Nie siedem. Nie osiem. Sześć”.
“Six minutes,” says her team leader. “A call is six minutes. Not seven. Not eight. Six.”
Jej lider zespołu to młody mężczyzna w białej koszuli. Chodzi między biurkami przez całą noc. Patrzy na każdy zegar.
Her team leader is a young man in a white shirt. He walks between the desks all night. He looks at every clock.
„Tak, wiem” – mówi Rosa. „Sześć minut”.
“Yes, I know,” says Rosa. “Six minutes.”
„Dobrze. Firma w Kanadzie płaci za sześć minut. Nie płaci za długie rozmowy”.
“Good. The company in Canada pays for six minutes. It does not pay for long talks.”
Noc jest długa. Rosa odbiera czterdzieści telefonów. Kobieta w Toronto nie ma internetu.
The night is long. Rosa answers forty calls. A woman in Toronto has no internet.
Rosa czyta skrypt i pomaga. Pięć minut, cztery minuty, sześć minut. Zegar jest zadowolony.
Rosa reads the script, and she helps. Five minutes, four minutes, six minutes. The clock is happy.
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