Day 154: Lola Saling's Sipa Days
Joy (A) comes home from a city arnis tournament in Quezon City with a medal to show her grandmother Saling (B).
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
Lola, heto po ang medalyang nakuha ko sa arnis!
Lola, here's the medal I won in arnis!
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B
Ang galing! Tradisyonal na laro natin iyan.
Wonderful! That's one of our traditional sports.
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A
Ano po ang laro ninyo noong bata pa kayo?
What did you play when you were a girl?
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B
Patintero at sipa. Ako ang batang pinakamagaling sumipa!
Patintero and sipa. I was the best kicker of all the kids!
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A
Kayo po? Tagisan po tayo sa sipa!
You? Then let's have a sipa match!
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