Day 206: Five Floors, No Elevator
At the water refilling station he owns in Santa Cruz, Manila, Domingo (A) sends his delivery worker Lucas (B) to an old customer who has moved to a fifth-floor walk-up and still orders three jugs a day.
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
Lucas, tatlong galon ulit kay Aling Loleng. Ngayon na raw.
Lucas, three jugs for Aling Loleng again. She wants them now.
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B
Boss, limang palapag po 'yon, walang elevator, tatlong galon pa araw-araw!
Boss, that's five floors with no elevator, and three jugs every day!
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A
Siya ang una nating suki, Lucas. Hindi natin siya puwedeng tanggihan.
She's our very first regular, Lucas. We can't turn her down.
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B
Dagdagan na lang po natin ng diyes kada palapag.
Then let's just charge ten pesos extra per floor.
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A
Singkuwenta kada akyat? Sige, pero ikaw ang magpapaliwanag kay Aling Loleng.
Fifty pesos a trip up? All right, but you're the one explaining it to Aling Loleng.
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