A12 min · 90 words
Ola idzie na rynek
Ola Goes to the Market
Meet Ola from Kraków on her Saturday trip to the market — vegetables, flowers, and your first real Polish shopping dialogue.
You will practice: Present tense (iść, kupować, mieszkać), na + locative for places, poproszę shopping phrases
Words to know
Skim these before you read — they carry the story. Tap the star to add one to your saved words.
- rynekmarket, market square
- mieszkaćto live (somewhere)
- kupowaćto buy
- warzywavegetables
- pomidortomato
- jabłkoapple
- tanicheap
- poproszęI'd like… please (when ordering)
- dziękujęthank you
- kwiatyflowers
- urodzinybirthday
- wracaćto return, to go back
- szczęśliwyhappy
- dużoa lot, many
- ludziepeople
Did you get it?
4 quick questions — no grades, just a comprehension check.
1. Where does Ola live?
2. What does Ola buy first?
3. How much does Ola pay at the vegetable stall?
4. Why does Ola buy flowers?
Too hard? Pick an easier text in the reading library. Understanding most of a text without translations is the goal — struggling through is not.