Day 159: Everyone Got Number Seven Wrong
At the dining table, Delfin (A), a retired engineer, helps his daughter Dolores (B), a public high school math teacher, check two hundred exam papers.
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
Anak, ang daming mali sa number seven.
Honey, so many of them got number seven wrong.
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B
Mahirap po talaga 'yan. Sinadya ko po 'yan.
That one really is hard. I made it that way on purpose.
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A
Pero lalong dumarami ang mali. Pati mga honor student mo, C ang sagot.
But the wrong answers keep piling up. Even your honor students answered C.
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B
Lahat po sila, C? B po ang nasa answer key.
All of them, C? The answer key says B.
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A
Sinagot ko rin, C ang lumabas. Baka ang answer key ang mali.
I worked it out too, and I got C. Maybe it's the answer key that's wrong.
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B
Ay, C nga po! Uulitin ko po tuloy ang dalawang daang papel.
Oh no, it is C! Now I have to recheck two hundred papers.
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