Italian–English parallel text
Il turno di notte
The Night Shift
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A bilingual Italian–English edition: the Italian text with the English beside it, paragraph by paragraph.
Opening the reader…
Sei minuti
Six minutes
Rosa vive a Manila. Ha trentuno anni. Lavora di notte.
Rosa lives in Manila. She is thirty-one. She works at night.
Il suo ufficio è un call center al decimo piano. Ci sono cento scrivanie e cento telefoni.
Her office is a call centre on the tenth floor. There are a hundred desks and a hundred phones.
Il call center lavora per un’azienda di internet in Canada. Le persone in Canada hanno problemi con internet. Loro chiamano e Rosa risponde.
The call centre works for an internet company in Canada. People in Canada have problems with their internet. They call, and Rosa answers.
A Manila è notte. In Canada è giorno. Rosa lavora dalle dieci di sera alle sei di mattina.
In Manila, it is night. In Canada, it is day. Rosa works from ten in the evening to six in the morning.
Rosa ha un testo sullo schermo. Il testo ha le parole per ogni chiamata.
Rosa has a script on her screen. The script has the words for every call.
«Buongiorno, mi chiamo Rosa. Come posso aiutarla?» Questa è la prima frase del testo.
“Hello, my name is Rosa. How can I help you?” That is the first line of the script.
Sullo schermo c’è anche un orologio. L’orologio conta i minuti di ogni chiamata.
On the screen, there is also a clock. The clock counts the minutes of every call.
«Sei minuti,» dice il suo caposquadra. «Una chiamata dura sei minuti. Non sette. Non otto. Sei.»
“Six minutes,” says her team leader. “A call is six minutes. Not seven. Not eight. Six.”
Il suo caposquadra è un giovane uomo con una camicia bianca. Cammina tra le scrivanie tutta la notte. Guarda ogni orologio.
Her team leader is a young man in a white shirt. He walks between the desks all night. He looks at every clock.
«Sì, lo so,» dice Rosa. «Sei minuti.»
“Yes, I know,” says Rosa. “Six minutes.”
«Bene. L’azienda in Canada paga per sei minuti. Non paga per le conversazioni lunghe.»
“Good. The company in Canada pays for six minutes. It does not pay for long talks.”
La notte è lunga. Rosa risponde a quaranta chiamate. Una donna a Toronto non ha internet.
The night is long. Rosa answers forty calls. A woman in Toronto has no internet.
Rosa legge il testo e aiuta. Cinque minuti, quattro minuti, sei minuti. L’orologio è contento.
Rosa reads the script, and she helps. Five minutes, four minutes, six minutes. The clock is happy.
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