Day 136: Reading Glasses at Forty-Five
In the waiting room of an eye clinic, Larry (A) runs into Ariel (B), his old teammate from their high school basketball team.
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
Pare, ikaw nga! Magpapagawa ka rin ng salamin?
Man, it really is you! You're getting glasses too?
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B
Oo, reading glasses. Hindi ko na mabasa ang text ni misis.
Yeah, reading glasses. I can't read my wife's texts anymore.
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A
Ako rin! Nakakatawa, pareho pala tayong malabo na ang mata.
Me too! Funny, turns out both our eyes are going.
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B
Nakakalungkot, tumatanda na talaga tayo. Ikaw pa naman ang shooter natin noon!
It's sad, we really are getting old. And you were our shooter back then!
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A
Shooter pa rin ako, ha. Malayo naman ang ring, e.
I'm still a shooter, you know. The hoop's far away anyway.
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B
Halika, sabay na tayong pumili ng frame. Ayokong magmukhang lolo.
Come on, let's pick out frames together. I don't want to look like a grandpa.
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