Day 211: No Sleeping Through the Fire Drill
Perla (A), who runs a small apartment building in Pasig, goes door to door about tomorrow morning's fire drill and stops at the unit of Bianca (B), a young tenant who works the night shift.
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
Bianca, may fire drill bukas ng umaga, kasama ang mga bumbero.
Bianca, there's a fire drill tomorrow morning with the firefighters.
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B
Tulog po ako sa umaga, Ate.
I sleep in the mornings, Ate.
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A
Walang tatakas! Kapag tumunog ang sirena, bumaba ka sa parking, sa tapat ng building.
Nobody gets out of it! When the siren goes off, go down to the parking lot, across from the building.
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B
Opo. Puwede po bang naka-pajama?
Okay. Can I come in my pajamas?
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A
Puwede. Ikaw pa ang gagamit ng fire extinguisher!
Sure. And you'll be the one using the fire extinguisher!
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