Day 148: Lola Left Home at Nineteen
At home in Quezon City, Liezel (A), a graphic designer just offered her dream job at a design studio in Cebu, tells her grandmother Benita (B) that her parents want her to turn it 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
La, tanggap na po ako sa design studio sa Cebu, pero ayaw po nina Mama.
Lola, the design studio in Cebu hired me, but Mom and Dad are against it.
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B
Disinuwebe anyos ako nang iwan ko ang bukid namin sa Batangas, isang bag lang ang dala ko.
I was nineteen when I left our farm in Batangas, with just one bag.
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A
Pumayag po ba ang mga magulang ninyo noon?
Did your parents agree back then?
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B
Hindi. Madaling-araw akong sumakay ng bus, tapos pagdaan sa Lipa, bigla akong napaiyak.
No. I got on the bus before dawn, and then as we passed through Lipa, I suddenly burst into tears.
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A
Tapos po? Bumaba po ba kayo?
And then? Did you get off?
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B
Hindi, saka ko naisip na wala nang atrasan. Hanggang ngayon, hindi ko 'yon pinagsisisihan, apo.
No. That's when it hit me that there was no turning back. And to this day, I don't regret it, dear.
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