Polish · Intermediate
Adapted from The Nightingale
An emperor discovers the song of a living nightingale, then learns its value after replacing it with a machine.
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Scene 1 · Intermediate
Dawno temu w Chinach żył cesarz, którego pałac był najpiękniejszy na świecie. Zarówno on, jak i wszyscy na jego dworze byli Chińczykami. Warto opowiedzieć tę historię, zanim tak odległe wydarzenia pójdą w zapomnienie.
Long ago in China, there lived an emperor whose palace was the most beautiful in the world. Both he and everyone at his court were Chinese. This story is worth telling before such distant events fade from memory.
Cały pałac zbudowano z porcelany. Kosztował ogromne pieniądze, a przy tym był tak kruchy, że trzeba było ostrożnie dotykać nawet jego ścian. W ogrodzie rosły niezwykłe kwiaty ze srebrnymi dzwoneczkami. Ich dźwięk zwracał uwagę przechodniów, więc nikt nie mógł minąć kwiatów obojętnie. Ogród ciągnął się tak daleko, że nawet ogrodnik nie wiedział, gdzie się kończy.
The entire palace was built of porcelain. It had cost a fortune, and it was so fragile that even its walls had to be touched carefully. Extraordinary flowers with little silver bells grew in the garden. Their sound caught the attention of passersby, so no one could walk past the flowers without noticing them. The garden stretched so far that even the gardener did not know where it ended.
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