Day 104: Sell Out or Hold Out
Late at night in a coworking space in Ortigas, Jace (A) and Rhys (B), college friends who cofounded an app that lets sari-sari stores order stock by text, have until morning to answer a big distributor's offer to buy them out.
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
Singkuwenta milyon, pare. Hindi ba't ito ang pangarap natin noong nasa dorm pa tayo?
Fifty million, man. Isn't this what we dreamed of back in the dorm?
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B
Oo, pero paano kung isara lang nila ang app pagkatapos ng isang taon?
Sure, but what if they just shut the app down after a year?
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A
Bakit nila isasara ang binili nila nang ganoon kamahal? Sino'ng gagawa niyan?
Why would they shut down something they paid so much for? Who does that?
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B
Hindi ba't 'yon mismo ang punto? Kapag wala na tayo, sa kanila na lang oorder ang mga tindahan.
Isn't that exactly the point? Once we're gone, the stores will have no one to order from but them.
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A
At ang labindalawang tao natin? Pandalawang buwan na lang ang pondo, nakalimutan mo na ba?
And our twelve people? We've only got two months of money left, or did you forget?
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B
May third option. Paano kung bahagi lang ang ibenta natin, basta bukas pa rin ang app sa lahat?
There's a third option. What if we sell them just a stake, as long as the app stays open to everyone?
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A
Bahagi lang, at makikinabang pa ang mga kakumpitensiya nila? Bakit naman sila papayag?
Just a stake, and their competitors get to benefit too? Why would they ever agree to that?
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B
Hindi ba't sila ang unang tumawag? Dalawampung libong tindahan ang hawak natin, pare.
Weren't they the ones who called first? We've got twenty thousand stores, man.
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A
Sige, i-type mo na ang counteroffer habang matapang pa ako.
All right, type up the counteroffer while I'm still feeling brave.
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