Day 94: Haggling Over a Nineties Reunion
In a coffee shop in Ortigas, Julie (A), events manager of a mall chain, meets Efren (B), lead singer and manager of a nineties OPM band, to agree on the fee for the band's reunion show at the mall's anniversary.
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
So, Sir Efren, our budget po is eighty thousand, all in na, with sound system.
So, Sir Efren, our budget is eighty thousand, all in, sound system included.
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B
Otsenta? Ang baduy naman ho, pang-garahe lang. Sold out ho kami sa Araneta noong '97.
Eighty? That's so baduy, garage-band money. We sold out the Araneta in '97.
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A
That was '97 pa po. Ngayon po, Gen Z na ang crowd, so risky for us.
That was back in '97. Now the crowd is Gen Z, so it's risky for us.
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B
Risky? E bakit ho dalawang beses kayong tumawag ngayong linggo? May headliner daw hong nag-back out.
Risky? Then why did you call twice this week? I hear one of your headliners backed out.
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A
Tsismis lang po 'yan. But okay po, let's make it one hundred, and we'll make sagot the hotel.
That's just gossip. But okay, let's make it a hundred, and we'll cover the hotel.
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B
One fifty ho, at astig na. Lima ho kami, at may anak sa kolehiyo ang drummer namin.
One fifty, and we're cool. There are five of us, and our drummer has a kid in college.
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A
So you need this din pala po. Final na po: one twenty, half-half, tapos the rest after the show na lang.
So you need this too, huh. Final offer: one twenty, half up front, and the rest after the show.
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B
Dehins ho puwede ang after the show, nadala na kami. Kalahati ho ngayon, kalahati bago kami umakyat ng stage.
No can do on "after the show," we've been burned before. Half now, half before we go on stage.
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A
Okay, go na po, basta kakantahin ninyo 'yung "the song," 'yung sa graduation ng lahat.
Okay, it's a go, as long as you sing "the song," the one from everybody's graduation.
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B
Ho? Iyon ho ang pinakaayaw naming kanta. Pero sige ho, para sa one twenty, buong puso.
Huh? That's our least favorite song. But fine, for one twenty, with all our hearts.
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