Polish
Posłuchajcie naszej opowieści. Zanim dotrzemy do końca, dowiemy się zapewne czegoś, czego teraz jeszcze nie wiemy.
English translation
Listen to our story. Before we reach the end, we will surely learn something we don’t know yet.
Polish · Intermediate
Królowa Śniegu
Adapted from The Snow Queen
Gerda journeys through a series of strange lands to find Kay after he is taken by the Snow Queen.
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Scene 1 · Intermediate
Lustro złego czarodzieja
The wicked magician's mirror
Polish
Żył kiedyś bardzo zły czarodziej, który stworzył niezwykłe lustro. Wszystko, co dobre i piękne, kurczyło się w nim niemal do zera. Za to brzydota i rzeczy bez wartości stawały się ogromne i wyglądały dziesięć razy gorzej niż w rzeczywistości. Piękny krajobraz przypominał w tym odbiciu gotowany szpinak. Twarze ludzi były tak zniekształcone, że nie rozpoznaliby ich nawet przyjaciele.
English translation
Once there lived a very wicked wizard who created an extraordinary mirror. Everything good and beautiful shrank in it almost to nothing. But ugliness and worthless things grew enormous and looked ten times worse than they really were. In its reflection, a beautiful landscape looked like boiled spinach. People’s faces were so distorted that even their friends wouldn’t recognize them.
Polish
Drobny pieg rozlewał się na nos i usta, a dobra czy pobożna myśl wywoływała na odbitej twarzy dziwną zmarszczkę.
English translation
A tiny freckle spread across a nose and mouth, while a good or pious thought brought a strange wrinkle to the reflected face.
Polish
Czarodziej chichotał z zachwytu nad swoim wynalazkiem. Jego uczniowie rozpowiadali o lustrze i twierdzili, że dopiero ono pokazuje świat i ludzi takimi, jakimi są naprawdę.
English translation
The wizard chuckled with delight at his invention. His pupils spread the word about the mirror and claimed that only it showed the world and people as they really were.
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