Day 77: Cabbage at Dawn in Balintawak
At the Balintawak market before dawn, Jen (A), who buys the vegetables for her family's carinderia, comes to the stall of Mang Victor (B), the wholesaler she buys from every day.
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
Mang Victor, sabi po ng katabi ninyo, mura na ang repolyo.
Mang Victor, the vendor next to you says cabbage is cheap now.
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B
Itinanong ko sa biyahero kung totoo 'yon. Sinabi niyang sinira ng bagyo ang kalahati ng ani sa Benguet.
I asked the trucker if that's true. He said the typhoon wiped out half the harvest in Benguet.
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A
Pero singkuwenta lang po sa kaniya.
But she's only charging fifty.
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B
Tingnan mo ang repolyo niya. Lanta na, noong isang linggo pa 'yan.
Look at her cabbage. It's wilted, it's from last week.
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A
Dalawampung kilo po ang kukunin ko. Sitenta na lang po, buwenamano naman.
I'm taking twenty kilos. Make it seventy, I'm your first sale of the day.
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B
Otsenta sa iba. Para sa buwenamano, sitenta'y singko.
Eighty for everyone else. For my first sale, seventy-five.
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A
Sige po. Basta kapag bumaba na, ako po ang una ninyong sasabihan.
Okay. But when the price comes down, I'm the first one you tell.
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