We know that the Philippines have so many dialects spoken in each province and even specific towns. I have been teaching my fiance' tagalog but he seem interested with our dialect, bicol and it is really enjoying to hear them and sometimes I come to a point of making fun out of it.

I have taught him many important words but some of the funny (no malice) ones are:
kuripot - jewish, thrifty
matigas-ulo- hardheaded
putol-ari- sex organ castration..just a warning.
unggoy- monkey..grrr..he teases me always
lobot- butt
How about you can you share? this may help in a way to learn new words for everybody.

I've teached my silly honey these words:
tae = poops
utot = fart
mabaho = stinky
bakit = why
kasi = because
hay naku = (expression) tired of it
kumusta = how are you?
mabuti = good
sino = who
saan = where

that's all i could remember..

haha, I also taught him...odo- poop, atot - fart, mabata- stinky..

and just by the way they pronounce it, you will surely laugh.right?

I'm an American and I'm actually learning Tagalog, but here's the words that I have been taught by my fiancee which are not on my learning courses:

baby damulag
grabeh (I learned this but I don't know the meaning but she laughs. She says that only gay people use that word, lol)
aking hari
Sprite walang yelo (hehe, all of the people would laugh at Jollibee when I would order this )
Ang sarap (actually, I saw that on a poster in Jollibee)

baby damulag? u are so funny! I think u know the meaning. Damulag in bicol dialect is carabao ..hmm, thanks for giving me an idea.LOL

to add, I also taught him.."bahala ka!"- up to you!

LOL, oo, gusto kong mga salita. "Baby damulag ka!"

I taught Ron "ewan ko sa yo!" and he did it so well:) Also taught him, "papakasalan mo ba ako?" which seems like a tounge twister for him:)

para po
bayad po
bawal umihi dito
barya lang po sa umaga
tara lets!
tae
wala
bukas (open)
mano po
bading
kanin, manok, isda, gulay, baka , baboy, lechon & ulam
pangit
maganda
magandang umaga, tanghali at hapon
buko
pula, asul, berde, rosas
kamusta & mabuhay

those are some of the words that i taught to my husband. but lately i was teachina him some verbs and how to make them into present tense, past tense and future tense. he is so cute whenever he tries to speak tagalog lol!

Hi Maria... I had fun reading the messages here... so I thought I would share my teaching experience with my fiance` hehehe!

When we were in Puerto Galera, we were with my fiance`s brother, I wanted to joke around his brother so I told my fiance` to tell to everyone he see these words: Bob lasing laglag (Bob is his brother, it means Bob drunk and fell) hahahaha and everyone is laughing. But it was a joke his brother did not really fell but was drunk hahaha

My fiance` also knows these words:

Masarap - Delicious
Mabuhay - As a greeting (every time he see someone he always say Mabuhay hahahaha, it's funny when people look at him haha)
Hinde - No (every time someone sells something to him in Puerto Galera I asked him to always say HINDE hahaha)
OO - yes
Salamat - Thank you (whenever we dine in, I told him instead of tip just say Salamat hahaha but he always say SALAMAS ayyyy grrr haha)

Ohhh I forgot to say, haha whenever I feel like laughing and whenever I want to have fun with, I always teach my finace` tagalog words and would love to hear him say our words, I'm sure know all how funny it is hearing them say tagalog words, remembering such makes me laugh now hahahahaha!

LOL Pink, so hard really to teach them about verbs since our language would need many prefixes and suffixes for its tenses. Hirap pala maging english teacher, haha.

Thanks, now ko ;ang na learn mag attach ng picture, hmm kaninang morning lang nung walang wala me magawa haha! Congratulate mo ko dahil natutunan ko na hahaha!







ahahahaha I can imagine how fun it is hearing his SALAMANT

the term "konting bilis" - though he also got a filipino blood, i had a hard time explaining to him what the heck this pinoy term means

medium fast???? wrong grammar tagalog, wrong grammar english din!

"kilig" - cus theres no english word for it! ggrrr...so wen i explained it to him..it wasnt like...in english its... but it had to be a full explanation with examples




but i laff loud wen he jokes around saying the famous P.I. bad word in a joking manner..instead of the real meaning..he says.." PUT - tang inumin mo!"


i miss my my sweetlove

"giling giling"

"hello....ok ka lang?" in a very sweet way

I think somebody's been chatting on Yahoo! Messenger!

Korek ka dyan!
Ang cute cute mo talaga!

kitkit, munggoy(monkey), twotoys

Hmmm, 'a little faster'? hala! mabilis ba gusto mo?! waaaaaaaaaaa.

Alin po ang igigiling? Ahhh, sa wowoweeeeee????

Fel what's 'twotoys'? 2 toys? hahaha! I think bisaya yun? Am not sure if am thinking right, LOL.Ppsshhh...

He just memorized few lines lately from YM like,

Sige powww!, paaylam.
wow pareiii, bigat!!

Hay naku, kung di lang natin love mga 'to sino magtyatyaga sa mga 'to.hehehe!

ur ryt hehe kitkit(sa babae) twotoys as how he pronounces it hehe sa tagalog susu

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Oh I just remember, we were laughing on this word... We both love dogs so he asked for the tagalog word for DOG which is:

ASO and he laughed on me because he said I am saying a bad word, he said it sounded like A** H*** ayyyyyy!!!!

One more, I am just remembering all the words he knows: BALIW AMERIKANO hahah (crazy american) we were watching TV Patrol and he overheard the report saying AMERIKANO and since then that became his favorite tagalog word and he asked me about the tagalog word for CRAZY, then when he learned how to pronounce it he started saying BALIW AMERIKANO, he meant that he travel half way round the world just to meet me hahahaha that is why he is one baliw amerikano hahaha!

He used to know the word BAYAD NA (time to pay) he said that to the waitress before.

Thats interesting, I didnt know kuripot means Jewish ..................................i dont mean to turn this into a negative thread but I dont think you should be generalizing people like that. I heard about a few different groups of people in the Philippines are Kuripot, and I didnt hear anyone mention Jewish. It is not good to generalize groups of people like that.

my husband has a new dog last few weeks ago. he asked me on whats the tagalog word for dog, i answered him "aso". he also told me that it sounds like a bad word lol! then he told his dad the tagalog of dog and then from then on they named their new dog "ASO"

Poor dog he has a bad name in the USA but for us Filipinos the name ASO for a dog is so cute hahahaha

Hmm, this turned serious.LOL..That's actually not generalizing and exactly referring to a certain group of people, but that's how my fiance' would usually say since I can't translate the meaning of 'kuripot' in English. Maybe that's just a slang term for them, not really sure until I am able to learn slang english..LOL

sis, are u sure hindi kulay blue new dog hubby mo? u can simply add "L"to make it "ASUL" or "ASOL" ..

hehe hindi po black yun aso nila half labrador and half retriever and his dad is the one who named the dog "aso" lol. i told my husband that here in phil. we like giving our pets with american names and its so funny that you named your dog "aso" lol but of course i understand that for them aso is a foreign name for them hehe.

I just remembered a few that my fiancee taught to me:

Gaya gaya ka
Pwede po kay Romi Lyn?

Here's my vocabulary I have learned from my wife:

Visayan/Cebuano

Gihigugma Kita (I love you)
Gimingaw ko nimo (I miss you)
Agay, akong lobot sakit (OUCH, my butt hurts!)
Palaaway (trouble maker) - my favorite word!
kapoy (tired)
Gutom (hungry)
Busog (full)
Pag Sure? Tambling ko! Sige go! (are you sure? Go for it! Okay, I'm going!)
Lamia ani oiii (Yummie, tastes good!)
Kauna pud! (Food again!)
Salamat Ginoo for the kaun (that's my personal blessing over the food)
asa (where)
akong baby mama (my baby mama)
Akuna gyud ni (That's me!)
Aja aja (Go, go) I think its a Korean expression

NGIT NGIT ANGLANGIT (not sure the spelling, but they love to laugh when I try to say it) I think it means something about the dark and something else obsurd....

Whewww!! That should be tough! Not simply tagalog but Bisayan, you're good! Ngit ngit ang langit...the clouds are dark?????

Heh. Reading this thread is so fun! My husband just can't get Tagalog right, though he so wants to learn. The words he can remember are, of course, the "bad" ones. P.I. was the first.
He actually got a phrasebook, which I don't think works that well... When he's in the mood, we have a Tagalog swapping thing in bed before we go to sleep. He usually starts with the "Sa-an po ang kubeta?"

You're from Cleveland, Ohio, my fiance's from there also. Too funny, of all the places "kubeta" type nya itanong, hahaha.

Actually, the office we file at is in Cleveland, we live about 40 minutes' drive away. But it's close enough! And yes, favorite niya iyan. Naniniguro lang siguro, so that if he needs it, he'll at least know how to ask for one! Hehe.

Aside from the usual kumusta ka, mabuti and mahal kita, I think my husband was a lot faster learning the following two Filipino words (1 in Ilocano - Northern Phils dialect). Not sure why but makes me laugh everytime he says it especially in not so applicable situations.

sungit (Tagalog/Ilocano) - means grumpy (which is most applicable for me sometimes ;-)
dugyot (Ilocano) - messy, untidy, cluttered (I usually tell him this everytime he leaves the bathroom sink with his shaving residues ;-)

Hehe. I just remembered one word my husband will never forget - tampo. Is there any real translation to this?? We haven't come up with one, but he definitely knows what it means now.

Definately!

Tampo = Tempertantrum

Here is what I've been using to learn Tagalog. It doesn't teach the spelling, but it teaches you how to say the words correctly because it uses native speakers of the language:

Pimsleur Lanuage Programs: Tagalog (I use the most expensive one because it has additional courses - 32 courses, 30 minutes each so that's 16 hours of Tagalog). If you're interested in this one, there's a person on eBay who sells them really cheap compared to the stores. Let me know if you're interested and I can give you his username. I've bought 1 Tagalog and 2 Spanish courses from him so I haven't had any problems so I doubt you would either.

You can help your husband with the spelling. I use this in combination with the Rosetta Stone, but the Rosetta Stone is only good at building vocabulary, not for conversation. Using them together helps a lot!

The word Tampo he found out by himself when I was quiet one time then he asked me are you tampo

my husband didn't learn a lot of tagalog words (he could forget.. hehehe) but here were few words he didn't forget..

mahal kita - i love you (of course he better not forget or i will kick him.. hehehe)
lolo - grandpop
lola - grandmom
tsismackers - gossipers (there's a lot in our neighborhood.. hahaha!)
babu - goodbye
kamusta ka - how are you?
mabuti - fine, good ( he pronounces it as ma booty)
manok - chicken (he loves "andoks" so he couldn't forget that manok thing)
balut - steamed duck egg (he used to immitate balut vendors in here.. hehehe!)
baboy - pig (he likes picking up on my brother.. hehehe)
kape - coffee (he usually asks my mom for a cup of coffee.. mama kape.. hehehe)

i forgot, he also knew salamat (thank you) which he pronounces as selemet.. hehehe..
walang anuman - your welcome (waleng anumen for my hubby).. hahaha..

LOL! I remember one of my pinay "friend" before taught her husband the word "Put*** *** Mo!, and she told him it means, "what is your name?"..I told her she is rude and got upset with me..Poor guy!