• Listen

  What it means

  Literally “speech is silver, silence is gold.” Means it’s often better to stay silent than to speak.

  Vocabulary

  • mowa — speech
  • milczenie — silence
  • złoto — gold

  Grammar note

  Instrumental comparison omitted — parallel structure.

  Beginner

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