Day 22 of 135

Day 22: Two Diaries, Thirty Years Apart

Packing up the family house in San Juan before it is sold, Daisy (A) finds the diary her mother, Iday (B), kept in 1965, just as Iday finds the one Daisy kept in 1995.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
  3. 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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  1. A

    Ma, tingnan po ninyo ang nakita ko sa aparador, diary po ninyo noong 1965!

    Mom, look what I found in the wardrobe, your diary from 1965!

  2. B

    Akin na iyan, ikaw talaga! E ano naman itong puro sticker ng Eraserheads, 1995?

    Give me that, you're impossible! And what's this one, covered in Eraserheads stickers, 1995?

  3. A

    Magpalitan po tayo: "Ako'y lubhang nalumbay nang hindi dumalaw si Celso kagabi, at nalanta ang sampagitang inihanda ko."

    Let's trade, then: "I was sorely grieved when Celso did not call upon me last night, and the sampaguita I had readied withered."

  4. B

    Huwag kang tumawa, ganyan kami magsulat noon. O, heto ang sa iyo: "Super bad trip, hindi nag-page si Jeric, as in wala!"

    Don't you laugh, that's how we wrote back then. And here's yours: "Total bummer, Jeric didn't page me, as in, nothing!"

  5. A

    Ang lalim po pala ng hinagpis ninyo, Ma. May karugtong pa po: "Magdamag akong nakadungaw sa bintana."

    So your heartache ran that deep, Mom. There's more: "All night long I kept watch at the window."

  6. B

    Teka, may ganito rin dito: "Magdamag akong nakabantay sa telepono, baka sakaling tumawag pa siya."

    Wait, there's one like it here too: "All night I sat by the phone, in case he might still call."

  7. A

    Ma, ilang taon po kayo noong isinulat ninyo iyan?

    Mom, how old were you when you wrote that?

  8. B

    Disisiyete. Kasing-edad mo pala noong naghintay ka sa teleponong iyon.

    Seventeen. The same age you were, it turns out, when you waited by that phone.

  9. A

    Kung alam ko lang po noon, Ma, sa inyo sana ako umiyak, hindi sa diary.

    If I'd only known back then, Mom, I would've cried to you, not to a diary.

  10. B

    At ako sana sa iyo, anak. Itong dalawa, ilagay na natin sa iisang kahon.

    And I to you, sweetheart. Let's put these two in the same box.

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