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- "Rozmawiamy o Jacku."
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In this context there is no much difference. But "rozmawiać" means "converse" and "mówić" means "speak, say".
I’m afraid that the correct solution "... about Jack" is misspelled. Author probably wanted to use Polish name "Jacek", not English "Jack" - at least it is pronounced this way - [o Jacku].
In most cases, also in other courses here, you can type a name equivalent as well as its original form, for example: Jacek=Jack, Tomek=Thomas, Jan=John, or in other languages Pedro, Pierre=Peter. However, in my opinion, it's better to respect the original spelling of the foreign name and keep it that way.
There are a lot of Poles in America, and nobody goes by the name Hyacinth! Hahaha! Jacek is still Jack. The same in other languages too. Foreigners often Americanize their names.
Yeah, Hyacinth sounds kinda... well you know, it's a flower after all ;)
Also it's the lady from "Keeping Up Appearances". But the 'real' equivalent to Jacek is Hyacinth indeed. No surprise that they prefer Jack, though.
Thanks. It's really interesting how similar these names are, having different origins at the same time. I never knew that Jack was derived from John. So it means the translation is wrong here, if those are two completely different names.
We don't say "discussing about " in regular English. "Discuss" takes a direct object, so we would just say "we are discussing Jacek", although it does have a slightly creepy sense, different from "we are talking about Jacek".
