Day 225: Personal, Even Confidential
One evening, Tala (A) answers her family's landline, and a polite young man, Dan (B), asks for her older sister.
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
Hello po, sino po sila?
Hello, who's calling, please?
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B
Si Dan po, kaopisina ng ate ninyo. Laging voicemail po ang cellphone niya.
This is Dan, your sister's officemate. Her cellphone keeps going to voicemail.
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A
Kaya po kayo tumawag sa landline? Urgent po ba?
So that's why you called the landline? Is it urgent?
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B
Hindi naman po. Personal lang po, medyo kumpidensiyal.
Not really. It's just personal, a bit confidential.
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A
Kumpidensiyal po? Kaopisina lang po ba talaga kayo?
Confidential? Are you really just an officemate?
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