Day 168 of 185

Day 168: A Café on the Coffee Farm

Back home in Amadeo, Cavite, after finishing her agriculture degree, Mae (B) walks the family's coffee farm with her father Jonathan (A), who has sold his beans to the same trader for thirty years, and pitches him a business plan she has written to bring in the weekend crowds from Manila.

How to study this lesson 3 steps
  1. Read the situation under the title. It says who is talking and how they know each other, which decides how politely they speak.
  2. Read the dialogue line by line with its translation, until every line makes sense.
  3. 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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  1. A

    Nalibot na natin ang buong taniman. Ano ba 'yang plano mo?

    We've walked the whole farm. So what's this plan of yours?

  2. B

    Magbukas po tayo ng café, Tay, para tayo na mismo ang magbenta ng kape natin.

    Let's open a café, Dad, so that we're the ones selling our own coffee.

  3. A

    Café sa gitna ng taniman? Sino namang taga-Maynila ang aakyat dito?

    A café in the middle of the farm? Who from Manila would come all the way up here?

  4. B

    Marami po. Puno po tuwing weekend ang mga café sa Tagaytay.

    Lots of people. The cafés in Tagaytay are packed every weekend.

  5. A

    Hindi nga nila alam ang pinagkaiba ng barako sa instant.

    They can't even tell barako from instant.

  6. B

    Diyan po papasok ang farm tour, Tay, para makita nila kung saan galing ang kape nila.

    That's where the farm tour comes in, Dad, so they can see where their coffee comes from.

  7. A

    Alam mo, tatlumpung taon nang binabarat ni Mang Celso ang kape natin.

    You know, Mang Celso has been lowballing our coffee for thirty years.

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