Exploring Polish Home Vocabulary: From Blocks to Skyscrapers

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Cześć, Marta. Cześć, Roy.

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Jak się masz? Dzisiaj jest dobrze.

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U mnie też, u mnie też, u mnie też. Jest ok, jest ok.

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Jak widzisz, uśmiech na mojej twarzy zawsze.

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Tak, to jest ważne. I zawsze uśmiechisz się. Tak, zawsze, zawsze się uśmiecham. So, ja.

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Uśmiecham się. I'm smiling because ponieważ dzisiaj rozmawiamy o domu.

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We are talking about home, yeah, house.

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Basically, yes, we will be talking about houses, yes?

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Like different types of houses in Polish. Czy jesteś gotowy, Roy?

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Jestem. Okay, to zaczynamy. Dom.

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Easy word, which means home, house.

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Exactly. Okay, so one example, one of the first example of houses, it's blok, yeah?

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Basically, blok in Polish we call like blok of flats, yeah? It's smaller like in English.

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Professionally, when you look at the dictionaries, it's like blok mieszkalny, yeah?

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Because mieszkanie basically means, what does it mean? Like flat.

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Yeah, yes, exactly. Apartment.

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Mieszkanie means like flat. Tak? Mam mieszkanie. Or basically mam dwa mieszkania. I wish.

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So it's like I own, yes, I have like one flat or two flats. Okay.

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And basically block as I said, block of flats.

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Then we have something like Wieszowicz. Have you heard something like this, Roy?

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Wieszowicznie. I know what it looks like, but I didn't know the word yet.

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It's like, is it skyscraper? No?

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Basically, when you translate it, it's a good question.

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When you look at the dictionaries, they say that it's skyscraper.

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Skyscraper.

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But it's,

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Among us, it's not. I'm going to explain why, okay?

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Basically, when you see these skyscrapers in Warsaw, we can say Wierzowce,

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but we also will say we will have another word for it.

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But when it comes to it, Wierzowce usually are old.

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But not old, but not modern, you know?

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Usually they are built off this, like, let's say, of concrete slabs, yeah?

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Like, not modern at all, wieżołowce, yeah?

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Are there kind of blocks that you showed previously, like, communistic? Is this similar?

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Yes, it's similar, yes, but these ones are higher, yes?

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Without no reason, I wrote it down that it's like plus five floors,

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yes? So, usually wieżowce mają więcej niż pięć pięter. Yeah?

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So, more than five floors. Block, usually, when you look for a flat in Poland, yeah? There will be.

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When they say there's block, usually it's like to four or five floors. Yes?

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But wieżowiec is like more than five, usually. And wieżowiec usually,

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always, wieżowiec ma windę, yes?

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Like lift, exactly, exactly.

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Obviously, now, more and more, coraz więcej bloków, tak, tych nowych,

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this modern, this new, even if there are two floors, they have a lift, yeah?

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But basically weaselce zazwyczaj mają, tak? Bo pięć pięter to jest dużo.

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Ty mieszkasz w bloku czy w weaselcu? Dom.

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A, w domu? Tak, tak. Ale przed na blok też, ale w Łodzi,

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bo dawno temu było wszystko szare, ale teraz wszystko ma piękny kolor i też

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Murials? I don't know if I'm in Polish.

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Then murials. There's a lot of murials in which and it looks beautiful on the side of a...

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Podobnie. Mural. Mural. Dużo, dużo.

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Rozumiem. Właśnie. I to jest to, o czym chciałabym z Wami porozmawiać.

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Polish. When we say that we live in a detached house, when you live alone, without neighbors.

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Then we call it dom or domek. Yes, probably you've heard, Roy,

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that for example we say Mieszkam w domku, tak? Or w domku.

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For example, Gdzie mieszkasz? Sometimes when we want to ask detaily,

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Like in which kind of house you live. We just say directly.

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Gdzie mieszkasz? Gdzie mieszkasz? Ja?

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Mieszkam w bloku. Like, yes, in the block of flats. Or w domu.

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Or domku jednorodzinnym. Ja?

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Like jednorodzinny. It's like one family can live. Yeah? Like direct meaning.

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Okay. The next type of home.

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Of house is semi detached

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house it is bliźniak yeah bliźniak

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bliźniak and bliźniak also

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you know another meaning of this word Roy twins no yes yes exactly twin yeah

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yes bliźniak masculine bliźniatka feminine yeah yeah mam brata bliźniaka for

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example yes I have a like twin brother yeah

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And the same when it comes to the village house.

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Szeragowiec or dom szeregowy, exactly, terrace house.

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Here it looks so Polish. I forgot that I gave you like typical English house,

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yes, which is like a terrace house.

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Szeragowiec or dom szeregowy, we can call it, yes, or dom szeregowy. Yeah.

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Have you heard somewhere or it's new? No, it was.

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Oh, okay. Saragoga, sure. But in Irlandia, my house was my house.

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Oh, okay, okay. My house was Saragoga.

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Okay, okay. So you lived in such a house. Okay.

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And when you have a house, it's always close to the sunshad.

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You're close to the neighbors.

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But if there's a house, you're in a detached house.

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I'm talking with one person, but the rest is not. Yes, exactly, a friend with a wall.

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He says, what is that? Yes, exactly.

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And the last one, probably.

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Drapacz of the moon. Drapacz of the moon. Okay?

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Or is cloud as well or something, is it? Exactly, exactly. It is funny.

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And yeah, sky. Scraper. Skyscraper. Yeah.

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And it is basically drapać. Drapać, basically, as a verb, means to scratch.

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And chmura means to, like, cloud.

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So we can translate that these buildings, like, scratch the clouds somehow.

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Yeah. From this, it comes. Yeah.

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And usually drapać, chmur, we call this modern, like, buildings,

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like, in Warsaw, like, in New York.

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Yes. with typical skyscrapers. Yeah? Okay.

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And important vocabulary, ważne słownictwo, winda, lift or American elevator,

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piętro, which is floor, parter, ground floor, schody, stairs,

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or klatka schodowa, which is staircase.

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Case what i can tell you that as

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was in with the block we don't say block we just

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say block it is similar situation we just

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say klatka without schodowa like in english staircase yeah when we say oh on

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check on a klatce yes we don't say it but my klatce schodowej yeah and like

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when you have tenement buildings.

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It is the klatka in the front entrance yeah I think I've heard of that yes basically yes yes exactly.

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