Day 17: Voting on the Second Floor
On election morning at a public school in Pinamalayan, Oriental Mindoro, Rachel (A), the town's election officer, asks Joey (B), the teacher who chairs a precinct's electoral board, why his line has stopped moving.
How to study this lesson 3 steps
- Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
- Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
- Spend at least 30 minutes listening to native Tagalog. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it yet.
Dialogue
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A
Joey, bakit hindi umuusad ang pila mo? Umabot na sa hagdan.
Joey, why isn't your line moving? It's reached the stairs.
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B
Rachel, paano ga aakyat sa ikalawang palapag ang mga lolo't lola? Tatlo na ang umuwi.
Rachel, how are the grandpas and grandmas supposed to climb to the second floor? Three have already gone home.
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A
Hindi sila dapat umuwi nang hindi nakaboboto. May EAPP tayo sa ground floor para sa kanila.
They shouldn't have to go home without voting. We have an EAPP, an emergency accessible polling place, on the ground floor for them.
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B
Alam ko ngani, pero nasa presinto ko dine sa itaas ang balota nila.
I know that, but their ballots are in my precinct, up here.
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A
Puwedeng bumaba ang isa sa EB dala ang balota, basta may kasamang watcher at nakatala sa minutes.
One of your board can take the ballot down, as long as a watcher goes along and it's logged in the minutes.
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B
E 'di dalawa na lamang kami sa itaas, sa haba ng pila?
So just two of us left upstairs, with a line that long?
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A
Magpapadala ako ng support staff. Hindi tayo lalabag sa patakaran kahit isang hakbang.
I'll send support staff. We're not stepping one inch outside the rules.
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B
Ayos iyan. Uunahin ko si Lola Iska, kanina pa iyon nakaupo sa hagdan.
That works. I'll take Lola Iska first. She's been sitting on the stairs for ages.
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A
Ako mismo ang sasama sa pagbaba ng balota niya, at isusulat mo sa minutes ang oras.
I'll go down with her ballot myself, and you write the time in the minutes.
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B
Sa dami ng akyat-baba natin, tayo pa yata ang hihingalin, hindi ang mga lolo't lola.
With all our running up and down, we'll probably be the ones out of breath, not the grandpas and grandmas.
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