Intermediate (B2)
Natural conversations about the news, conflicts at work and society, with idioms, reported speech and meaning between the lines.
- 185 lessons
- About 7 lines each
By the end of Intermediate you will
- Follow natural conversations about the news, work conflicts, money, technology and society.
- Understand reported speech, polite refusals and what people imply without saying it.
- Recognize common idioms such as mababaw ang luha, and the way speakers hedge and soften.
The lessons in this level don't have audio yet: they show the dialogue and its translation, and their audio is coming soon.
All Intermediate lessons
- Day 1 Too Perfect for Grade Nine
- Day 2 No Sea Legs for Rico
- Day 3 Prediabetic at Twenty-Six
- Day 4 Not Strength but a Steady Hand
- Day 5 Why the Mixer Stopped
- Day 6 Fill Up Before Tuesday
- Day 7 Dad Wants to Be a Vlogger
- Day 8 Hermano Mayor Next Year?
- Day 9 Another Corn Dog Stall?
- Day 10 Saving the Spot With a Chair
- Day 11 Stranded at Batangas Port
- Day 12 Noche Buena Somewhere Else?
- Day 13 Renovated, Not Demolished
- Day 14 The New Stitcher Goes Last
- Day 15 Lola Just Nods Along
- Day 16 The Pageant's Final Question
- Day 17 Older Than the App
- Day 18 The Third Loan Before Payday
- Day 19 Passed Despite the Smoke
- Day 20 One Kitchen, Two Cooks
- Day 21 A Cut for the Tour Bus
- Day 22 Carrying a House on Sunday
- Day 23 Tita Comments on Everything
- Day 24 Five Kilos Over the Limit
- Day 25 Don't Stand on the Coral
- Day 26 No More Thirteenth Month Pay
- Day 27 Sunday Pitch in Central
- Day 28 The Embroiderer Says Maybe
- Day 29 Where Rod Goes on Saturdays
- Day 30 Splitting a Sack of Rice
- Day 31 Gourmet Danggit in Glass Jars
- Day 32 Plastic for Rice Day
- Day 33 She Was My Trainee
- Day 34 Stalled Between Two Stations
- Day 35 Not on the Close Friends List
- Day 36 Cotillion Practice Every Sunday
- Day 37 The Barber Already Knows
- Day 38 Tutoring Non-Readers for Free
- Day 39 Off the Record, Please
- Day 40 Two Days Before the Boards
- Day 41 The Announcer's First Podcast
- Day 42 Only Her Hand in the Photo
- Day 43 Ten Years for One Gold
- Day 44 Twenty Years of Remittances Saved
- Day 45 Always Compared to Kuya
- Day 46 Double Pay by Mistake
- Day 47 Saving the Old Acacias
- Day 48 No Rice, Says TikTok
- Day 49 Riding Pillion With Monica
- Day 50 Piso Fare to Osaka
- Day 51 House Rules in Kamias
- Day 52 The Utang Notebook
- Day 53 Lola for Career Day
- Day 54 Cassava Cake on Consignment
- Day 55 Tears Over the Front Page
- Day 56 The Anthem That Went Viral
- Day 57 One Classroom, Two Shifts
- Day 58 The Scholarship on the Line
- Day 59 No Fishing Inside the Buoys
- Day 60 Fifty Pesos a Day
- Day 61 When Is the Second One?
- Day 62 The Snoring Recording
- Day 63 A Gown for the Santacruzan
- Day 64 Lolo's Jeep Fails the Smoke Test
- Day 65 Paperwork for North Carolina
- Day 66 Hacked Before Breakfast
- Day 67 Zumba in the Barangay Plaza
- Day 68 Moving Out Isn't Leaving
- Day 69 Rehearsing Nanay's Visa Interview
- Day 70 Whose Slogan Was It?
- Day 71 A Career Inside the Walls
- Day 72 Absent for the Harvest
- Day 73 The Floor We Keep Raising
- Day 74 Laundry Pickup for the Condos
- Day 75 Paint for a Bike Lane
- Day 76 Who Will Tend the Mangoes?
- Day 77 Cabbage at Dawn in Balintawak
- Day 78 If the Big One Comes
- Day 79 Sleeping Through the Daylight
- Day 80 The Counteroffer on Friday
- Day 81 Not So You Could Follow Me
- Day 82 Thirty-Six Months for a Motorcycle
- Day 83 No Gloves, No Line
- Day 84 Post It or File It
- Day 85 First Day With a Whistle
- Day 86 The Monthly Water Test
- Day 87 Wet Towels Under the Door
- Day 88 Just Until He Finds Work
- Day 89 A Bedspace Near Makati
- Day 90 Thank You for Seven Seasons
- Day 91 A Field Trip to the Museum
- Day 92 The Gulf, Then and Now
- Day 93 Scrubs or a Company Car
- Day 94 Laps Instead of Beer
- Day 95 The Seat Reserved for Seniors
- Day 96 Copied to the Boss
- Day 97 The Mall Across the Market
- Day 98 Cherry Blossoms at Seventy
- Day 99 The Missing Second Dose
- Day 100 Eleven Absences, One Failing Grade
- Day 101 Busy Shop, Rising Taxes
- Day 102 The Flood Line on the Wall
- Day 103 The Photos Are Gone
- Day 104 Lola's Name on His Arm
- Day 105 The E-Wallet Goes Down
- Day 106 A Job Through Dad's Classmate
- Day 107 A Hint Over the Menu
- Day 108 Delivering Through the Monsoon
- Day 109 Hunting Mosquitoes After the Rain
- Day 110 Never Deploy on a Friday
- Day 111 A Group Chat for Seniors
- Day 112 Bleached Hair for Sunday Lunch
- Day 113 Thirty Kilometers Before Breakfast
- Day 114 A Flight Attendant in the Family
- Day 115 Leaving the Ward for London
- Day 116 Posted to a Mountain School
- Day 117 The LPG Came Late Again
- Day 118 No Box for the Rice Fields
- Day 119 Korean Flashcards at a Café
- Day 120 A Ticket for a Sold Car
- Day 121 Back to Work After Fifteen Years
- Day 122 Chickens in a Heat Wave
- Day 123 Named After Which Lola?
- Day 124 Pawning the Gaming Laptop
- Day 125 Ants in the Guardhouse
- Day 126 Protein Powder at Sixteen
- Day 127 Too Hot for Afternoon Classes
- Day 128 Mango Branches Over the Roof
- Day 129 Rainwater for the Car Wash
- Day 130 No More PM for Price
- Day 131 A Varsity Offer From Manila
- Day 132 The Family's Free Driver
- Day 133 The School Van Is Late Again
- Day 134 In Case I Don't Go Back
- Day 135 The Night the Airport Went Dark
- Day 136 A Ride Home on a Kuliglig
- Day 137 Doxycycline After the Flood
- Day 138 Squinting at the Whiteboard
- Day 139 Live on Facebook for an Hour
- Day 140 Reports Before Lesson Plans
- Day 141 Six Months on Friday
- Day 142 The Last Typewriter Repair Shop
- Day 143 Smaller Servings, Same Plate
- Day 144 A Government Job at Last?
- Day 145 The Bonus That Lasted One Day
- Day 146 Nanay Wants the City
- Day 147 Who Gets the Gaming PC?
- Day 148 Lola Left Home at Nineteen
- Day 149 Valentine's Eve at Dangwa
- Day 150 Phones Off in the Classroom?
- Day 151 Banana Leaves in the Creek
- Day 152 The Dark Road Down Antipolo
- Day 153 Mom Scrolls Until Two
- Day 154 No Approved Therapeutic Claims
- Day 155 A Price Freeze on AM Radio
- Day 156 Absent During the Flood
- Day 157 A Fundraiser Post for Lolo
- Day 158 Three Jobs in Two Years
- Day 159 Working From La Union
- Day 160 To Tip or Not to Tip
- Day 161 A Loan for the Ube Jam
- Day 162 The Honest Driver Made the News
- Day 163 A Factory Job in Poland?
- Day 164 Grandma's Rules for the Baby
- Day 165 Ukay-Ukay or Brand New?
- Day 166 We Passed That Church Already
- Day 167 His First Fun Run at Fifty
- Day 168 A Café on the Coffee Farm
- Day 169 Preschool at Three?
- Day 170 E-Bike Repairs, Too?
- Day 171 Fainting at the Flag Ceremony
- Day 172 The Calesa Driver's Next Route
- Day 173 Longganisa Orders at the Office
- Day 174 Your Brother Needs a Room
- Day 175 The Busway From the Driver's Seat
- Day 176 Whose Aguinaldo Is It?
- Day 177 TikTok at Eight?
- Day 178 Nobody Greets You in the Elevator
- Day 179 A Lola Grabbed My Microphone
- Day 180 So You Can Come Home Sooner
- Day 181 Stop Burning the Leaves, Ma
- Day 182 A TESDA Certificate, Not a Diploma
- Day 183 Not Leaving Without the Dogs
- Day 184 New Rules at the Tricycle Terminal
- Day 185 A CCTV Camera Over the Scale
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