Day 9: Another Corn Dog Stall?
On a row of food stalls near the universities on Katipunan, Rachelle (A), a first-time business owner, asks Maricel (B), who has run the carinderia next door for twenty years, what she thinks of her new corn dog stall.
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
Ate Maricel, ano po sa tingin ninyo sa bago kong corn dog stall?
Ate Maricel, what do you think of my new corn dog stall?
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B
Maganda, makulay. Pero alam mo, parang kabute ang mga ganyan dito.
It's nice, colorful. But you know, those kinds of stalls are like mushrooms around here.
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A
Kabute po? Ano po ang ibig ninyong sabihin?
Mushrooms? What do you mean?
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B
Sulpot nang sulpot, pero sara rin agad. Ningas-kugon kasi ang mga uso.
They keep popping up, but they close just as fast. Trends here burn out quickly.
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A
Naku, paano po ako tatagal dito?
Oh no, so how am I supposed to last here?
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B
Mag-combo tayo: corn dog mo, sago't gulaman ko. Hatian tayo sa kita.
Let's do a combo: your corn dogs, my sago't gulaman. We'll split the profits.
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