Day 130: No More PM for Price
In her home kitchen in Las Piñas, Analyn (A), who sells custom cakes online, asks her niece Mariz (B), who runs the shop's Facebook page, why she wants to start posting prices.
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
Bakit gusto mo nang ilagay ang presyo sa page natin?
Why do you want to start putting our prices on the page?
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B
Naiinis na po ang mga customer sa PM for price. Bukod pa rito, ubos po ang oras ko sa kakasagot.
Customers are getting annoyed with "PM for price." Besides that, all my time goes into answering them.
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A
Pero ikukumpara lang nila tayo sa ibang bakers.
But they'll just compare us with other bakers.
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B
Hayaan po ninyo. Kayo lang naman po ang may ganyang ube cake dito.
Let them. You're the only one around here with an ube cake like that.
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A
Sana nga. Pero 'yung mga mahilig tumawad, ano ang sasabihin ko?
I hope so. But what do I tell the ones who love to haggle?
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B
Nakalagay na po ang presyo, Tita, kaya naman wala nang tawaran.
The price will already be posted, Tita, so there's no more haggling.
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