Day 16: A Drone Over the Pineapples
On a pineapple farm in Calauan, Laguna, Lorenzo (A), the farm's owner, watches Shiela (B), a young agricultural engineer, demonstrate a spraying drone.
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
Engineer, paano kung bumagsak 'yan sa bubong ng kapitbahay ko?
Engineer, what if that thing crashes onto my neighbor's roof?
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B
May GPS at radar po ito, kaya kusang umiiwas sa bubong at puno.
It has GPS and radar, so it steers clear of roofs and trees on its own.
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A
Hindi ba't mas mahal pa 'yan kaysa sa sahod ng tatlong tauhan ko?
Isn't that even more expensive than paying three of my workers?
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B
Sa unang taon lang po; isang ektarya, labinlimang minuto at sampung litrong tubig lang.
Only in the first year. One hectare takes just fifteen minutes and ten liters of water.
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A
Sampung litro? Paano aabot 'yan sa lahat ng tanim kung ganoon lang kakaunti?
Ten liters? How can that reach every plant if it's so little?
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B
Pino po ang ambon, kaya kumakapit sa dahon; halos sangkatlo pa ang bawas sa abono.
The mist is very fine, so it clings to the leaves, and you use almost a third less fertilizer.
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A
Sangkatlong bawas sa abono? Dapat 'yan ang inuna mong sinabi, Engineer!
A third less fertilizer? You should've led with that, Engineer!
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