Oct. 3, 2025

#521 Dating in Polish: First-Date Awkwardness, Red Flags and Ghosting

#521 Dating in Polish: First-Date Awkwardness, Red Flags and Ghosting
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#521 Dating in Polish: First-Date Awkwardness, Red Flags and Ghosting

Episode 521 of Learn Polish Podcast: hosts Roy and Ania talk about dating (randka) — first impressions, conversation chemistry, awkward moments, and how to spot red flags.

They discuss practical topics like restaurant vs. walk dates, where to meet, what to wear, who pays, balancing shared hobbies vs. emotional connection, and how to deal with ghosting in modern dating.

 

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00:06 - Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast

00:58 - Emotional Connections in Dating

05:58 - Dining Dilemmas

09:01 - Attire for a Date

10:42 - Alternatives to Dining Out

14:36 - Recognizing a Bad Date

16:13 - Dealing with Ghosting

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Welcome to Learn Polish Podcast, episode number 521, 521.

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You can find all our episodes on learnpolishpodcast.com. You'll find everything

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about me, scan the QR code or go to rycon.com.

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And I've also started a school community for podcasters, so if you're interested

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in that, I'll have the link in the show notes.

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And if you want the lessons from Anja, I'll also have all our details in the show notes. Cześć Anja.

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Cześć. Roy, zacznę od pytania. How do you feel?

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Not 100%, but a little better. In the morning I was very bad, but now it's better.

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In addition to the last podcast you recommended me to go to the sauna,

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I have to ask you, maybe you were yourself in the plan to go to the sauna? That's good.

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In the last three days I was. I was. No, I can't have a watch,

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or not? No, definitely, yes. Good, I'm very excited.

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Today we have a very interesting topic.

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We have a very emotional topic. We have a very interesting topic.

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Roy, tell me. It's a very interesting topic.

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Tell me, Roy.

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Rantka, słowo rantka. Dish. Yes, of course. And what?

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And what's this rantka? Tell me, how would you look, or how should you look, the first round?

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What kind of characteristics of the round?

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What kind of characteristics of the round? When I have a round, I don't know.

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I've been a round. I think it was a little bit.

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But it was. Okay. So, what kind of a rant? What do you do?

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Where you go. It depends on the person, because sometimes the person can help

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us, and sometimes the person can talk, and the other person has to be in the

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restaurant, has to be in the kitchen.

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It's good too, but when there is a good character, a good conversation, it's a big difference.

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In Polish, there is a nice expression that the conversation doesn't change.

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So, the conversation doesn't change.

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Yeah, nothing to talk about, is it? Tak, wzajemnego. Rozmowa się nie klei.

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No i tak się zdarza niestety.

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No tak, czyli typowa randka.

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Dobra, a powiedz mi w takim razie, co może dziwić Cię w randkach?

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Dziwić to zeskakiwać. Coś takiego wow.

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Jakieś takie nieoczekiwane sytuacje.

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Może jakieś dziwne, jakieś momenty dziwne w randkach.

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Na przykład dziwne. It's a weird place, I don't know, to go to a random place.

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It's a weird place. It's a weird place for a long time. It's a nietypowe place.

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Nothing is awkward.

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Nothing is worried about it. So, it's a typo, a typo scheme.

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For example, when you're in a restaurant, it's not normal.

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It's a good meal. Because when you have a good meal, you feel better.

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Yes, food is the basis to eat, because if a person is hungry, he doesn't think.

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Yes, food is the most important thing. Okay, tell me what is your opinion about

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the fact that your family immediately met a person?

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That means, let's say, you were on a rant, right?

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The conversation is clear, the conversation is clear.

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And when is the good moment to present a partner or a partner in the family? Yeah.

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It depends on the person, because when you feel very comfortable, it's fast.

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Fast, okay. When you... No? Then.

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Then, then, okay. So we wait, wait. It's a situation of no thought at the first

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level of the rant, so it's a situation of unacceptable.

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Roy, what do you do not accept at the rant?

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When a person is not my own, is negative.

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That's my energy, right? Yes, just she says wrong about other people. Oh, other people, yes.

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And when I see what is not my own to the corner, then I know your card.

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When you say bad, thank you, or just like, as patchy, you think you're the king, or the king.

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Or the king. Yes, the king.

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Okay, Roy, you talk all the time about this restaurant.

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What is the best place for you? I think it's a restaurant for you.

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It's an ideal place for you.

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In Łodzi is Piotrkowska. In Łodzi is Piotrkowska, okay.

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And if we are not in Łodzi, then where? Because there is no Piotrkowska.

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It's only in Łodzi. And if we are not in Łodzi, then what? It depends.

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Sometimes we can have Michelin's restauration. So, everything depends on the taste.

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Sometimes it may be a vegetarian, and I don't eat it, but I won't buy meat,

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when I know that someone doesn't eat meat.

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So, you need to understand it, right? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

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Okay, Roy, did you go to the lunch with a meal without a meal?

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Well, when there is a vegetarian restaurant, it's normal.

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You have a big deal, you have a pot, you have a pot, you have a pot,

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you have a pot, you have a pot, you have a pot, you have a pot.

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Okay, so you have to accept that restaurant.

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Okay, now a important thing. What is important?

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Emocional connection, or interaction, which is an emotional connection,

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which the person produces in the way and in the way, or interaction, which is a common hobby.

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What is important to you? Emocions or a common hobby? I don't know, I just understand.

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It's like that they're emotional person?

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No, here it is called a connection, so it is a connection, so it is a connection.

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So, emotional connection or hobby.

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Hobby is not the same as emotion, because I can go to a bathroom,

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another person can go to a bathroom, but our conversation is not a bathroom,

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there is no difference, you understand?

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And these are the emotions. No to teraz, ważne jest to coś, emocje,

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czy jednak hobby na przykład, zainteresowania?

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Sucha osoba lubi to, co ty, dosłownie wszystko.

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Sometimes it's good, because when you love learning, you can go to the bathroom,

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you can go to the bathroom, you can go to the bathroom, you can go to the bathroom,

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and it's okay when you don't have a person who likes it.

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For example, I love reading books, because sometimes people don't read anything,

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and watch the television all the time.

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So you accepted this difference, right? That someone doesn't like reading books,

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but does television, right?

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When someone... But it may be a problem, because when... Yes, but it may be a problem.

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Because sometimes someone wants to watch the television and watch the television.

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And when there is a problem... I like film and cinema, but when I don't like

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show, when I'm interested,

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I read the book better, because sometimes any partner doesn't like it.

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It must be beside you. New partner.

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Yes. So here is compromise. You have to find a silver lining.

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The compromise is a good solution for one side and for the other side.

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Okay, so we are talking about this restaurant.

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Tell me Roy, how to dress on a lanty? How to dress on a lanty?

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How to make a good impression?

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Yes, it's elegant, but not a lot. Ah, not a lot. It's elegant, but not a lot.

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Profesional, good. Functional, okay.

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It depends on where. For example, when you go to the circle, normal.

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When you go to the cinema. Then you go to the luci. Yes, but not.

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Yes, but without a doubt.

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Okay, tell me, in this restaurant, now a question that can cause conflict.

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Who's paying in this restaurant?

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Who's paying? It's a conflict question. For me, it's like a first rank.

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I want them. Aha. Ty chciałeś. Ok.

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A co sądzisz o tej metodzie dzielenia rachunku? Połowę jedna osoba,

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połowę druga osoba? Nie wiem.

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Zależy wszystko osoba, zależy budżet, bo może kobiety ma więcej pieniędzy.

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Wszystko zależy, bo wszystko musi być szczęśliwe. Aha, wszyscy muszą być szczęśliwi,

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czyli metoda jest taka, żeby każdy był zadowolony.

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No tak, mówię, pytanie konfliktowe, ponieważ budza wiele kontrowersji, tak?

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Dobra, mamy to, mamy strój, mamy rozstrzygnięty problem zapłaty,

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jesteśmy w restauracji, a powiedz mi, co sądzisz o takiej alternatywie?

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Zamiast restauracji, spacer, bez jedzenia.

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What is better? Spacer or restauration? It's just an alternative option.

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Different things to do. So, yeah, in the park, in Spacer, it's very good,

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because I love natural and so many people.

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It's not... It's a bit rude, right? It's not... It's a good time to talk.

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Of course. It's a condition that you talk about, you know, clay,

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right? Because if you don't put it, there's no conversation.

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Sometimes in restaurants, people can't feel like... Or maybe a lot of people... The cinema is...

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Because I can't talk a lot, but then I can also go to the beach.

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So the beach is the best moment for the conversation.

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And pool is also good, because sometimes we play, I don't know,

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billards, but when we play, it's a joke,

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and then we'll see what is the character. Mhm, tak, jaki charakter.

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Dobra, skoro mówimy o rozmowie i od gdzie rozmawiać, no to teraz,

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jaki jest najgorszy możliwy tekst na rozpoczęcie rozmowy?

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Jakiś tekst, który od razu może dać takie uczucie, że nie, nie. Co w ogóle ta osoba mówi?

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Najgorszy tekst. Na przykład, kiedy rozmawia i myślę, że może być, może nie.

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And then it's like, kiedy pytasz coś or rozmawiasz, pisz coś ładnie or od.

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And then pisz tak or nie, and then nic, and nie pytanie później.

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It's like, jak chcesz cały czas informacje, and then it's like, eh.

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Okay, czyli gdy chcesz podtrzymywać konwersację, a ta osoba nie ma takiej chęci,

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tak, nie chce, ewidentnie nie chce i odpowiada jednym słowem.

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Okay, a in such a conversation, in life, when you talk with someone,

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in park, how do you accept the text, if someone uses a word of words?

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I don't know if I can't hear anything, but I don't understand. I don't understand.

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Do you accept, when a person uses a nice language? That's it? Of course.

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You say vulgarly, a word censural, a rude. Do you accept?

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It depends, sometimes we speak a few people, but when it's all the time,

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it's like... No właśnie, ja mówię o sytuacji, kiedy ta osoba cały czas używa.

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To jest jej język po prostu. To wtedy nie.

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Bo na przykład na słownie czasami ja słucham coś, coś, coś, to dla mnie nie.

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No nie, to faktycznie nie.

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Najgorszy tekst to taki, który jest niekulturalny naprawdę, tak?

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I jakiś taki, który powoduje takie negatywne emocje. Although it also depends

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on the person, because each person has a different tolerance,

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I think, on the emotions.

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Okay, now a question.

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Was there a moment when you wanted to escape from the lunch?

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That means you were at lunch and you were thinking about going home,

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because it was tragic, right?

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Yes. Okay, so there was something like that.

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So the conversation didn't get stuck. It's like, szybko wiem,

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to nie jest dla mnie, to nie jest osoba dla mnie, tak?

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Właśnie, to jest świetny moment, żeby zadać Ci kolejne pytanie,

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skąd wiesz, że to nie jest to?

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To znaczy, rozmawiasz z osobą i już widzisz, nie.

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What will make you know, that you don't know? What is the moment in which you

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don't know, that there is no second day, that there will be nothing?

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Where do you know what's going on?

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Sometimes it is not natural when we talk.

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You have to think...

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I talk about it over the years. and something, but they don't say anything, right?

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And it's all the time, and then then later it's like, oh, so I don't ask,

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I don't interest you about me or about another topic, right?

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And sometimes it's like, it's a hard time to talk, right? So,

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it's a hard time to talk, right?

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But it can be from other people, right?

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It's not just a rank, it can be from a group and we go drinking and then one person can't talk.

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So... So, talking is the moment, when you decide, that you know,

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that you know, that you know, that you know.

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That's great, because talking is important. The words are important.

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The communication is all about.

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Alright, last question. It's a pretty negative thing.

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Ghosting. Roy, how to deal with ghosting?

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What to do, when someone is ghosting?

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What? Do you believe in yourself personally and do you think about it? Do you feel it?

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No, no. When a person does ghosting, it's good for me.

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It's good, because it's not for me. It's not for me. Mm-hmm, tak.

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So, no, niestety, I think that in today's world, in today's times,

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this situation with ghosting, is something, what is a big problem or a small problem?

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It was a lot, but now the situation is not before.

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Before we go to the discotheque, go to the pub, go to the kawian,

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just talk, go to the club, go to the Toastmasters, and we go to the podcast,

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we go to the podcast, we go to the Ranka.

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And now we go to the Bumble or Tinder or something, and we go to the Pish,

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the Pish, the Pish, the Pish.

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no My hand, right?

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Ah, my hand? Well, maybe you too, yes.

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Everything is for my hand. Yes, everything is for my hand.

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Everything is for my hand. No, no, no, no. You listen to the listeners,

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yes? Yes, but I would like to encourage you here to interact.

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Well, thanks a lot for your hand. We'll hear you soon. Okay.

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Yes, you can get lessons. You'll see it in the show notes, but in the audio and the video.

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You find everything about me you scan the QR code or

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