Day 47: Paying for the Empty Seat
At a UV Express terminal in Fairview, Krista (A), who rides the van every day, sits beside her officemate Joseph (B), who is trying it for the first time and has already waited twenty minutes.
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
Relax lang, Joseph. Hindi aalis 'to hangga't 'di pa full.
Relax, Joseph. This van won't leave until it's full.
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B
Twenty minutes na tayong naghihintay, isang seat na lang ang kulang!
We've been waiting twenty minutes, and we're only one seat short!
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A
E 'di hati na lang tayo sa bakanteng seat para makaalis na.
Then let's just split the empty seat so we can get going.
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B
Babayaran natin 'yung upuang walang nakaupo?
We're paying for a seat nobody's sitting in?
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A
Tig-trenta lang tayo. Mas mahal pa ang ma-late.
It's just thirty each. Being late costs more.
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