Day 49: She Still Signs in Ink
At a family trading company in San Juan, Alvin (B), the IT manager, brings a tablet to the seventy-year-old owner, Ma'am Socorro (A), so she can sign documents on it.
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
Alvin, itabi mo nga 'yang tablet. Sa papel ako pumipirma.
Alvin, put that tablet away. I sign on paper.
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B
Ma'am, legal po ang e-signature. Mas mabilis pa po ang approval.
Ma'am, e-signatures are legal. And approvals go faster.
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A
Paano kung may mameke ng pirma ko?
What if someone fakes my signature?
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B
Mas mahirap po 'yang pekein kaysa sa papel.
That's harder to fake than paper.
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A
Sige, sa resibo at memo muna. Pero kontrata, ballpen pa rin.
All right, receipts and memos for now. But contracts are still in pen.
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