Day 118: No Box for the Rice Fields
Coco (B), a young planner from the municipal office of Tanza, Cavite, goes door to door with a survey for the town's new land use plan, and Mang Emong (A), who has lived there since the town was all rice fields, invites him to sit down.
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
Maupo ka muna, iho. Ano ba 'yang hawak mo?
Have a seat, iho. What's that you've got there?
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B
Survey po para sa land use plan ng bayan. Ano po ang pinakamalaking pagbabago rito?
A survey for the town's land use plan. What's the biggest change around here?
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A
Mula nang dumami ang subdivision, nagkaka-traffic na kahit dito. Hindi na ako nakakapagbisikleta papuntang bayan.
Since the subdivisions multiplied, we get traffic even out here. I can't ride my bike to town anymore.
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B
Bumabaha rin po ba rito kapag malakas ang ulan?
Does it flood here too when it rains hard?
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A
Noong palayan pa ang paligid, sa bukid napupunta ang ulan. Ngayon, sa sala ko na.
Back when it was all rice fields around here, the rain went into the fields. Now it goes into my living room.
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B
Sa natitirang lupa po, tatlo lang pala ang pagpipilian dito: residential, commercial at industrial.
For the land that's left, it turns out there are only three choices on this form: residential, commercial and industrial.
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A
Isulat mo na lang sa gilid: palayan. Kahit isa lang.
Then just write it in the margin: rice field. Even just one.
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