Learning Tagalog?

[elyhim 41]

Does anyone have experience with a course for Tagalog? I use translators and pick up a few words but I am completely terrible. My nose bleeds Tagalog.

Looking for advice for a course!

[Thomas&Cleofe 358]

Rosetta Stone has a great self learning course....but quite spendy.

I found a pretty good book on amazon for $14

but mostly I learn from my wife. I tell her to speak tagalog often so I can learn everyday.

[Fight for Love 98]

ENGLISH: here's a list of website to learn tagalog

TAGALOG: heto po yn mga listahan ng mga website pra matuto ng salitang tagalog

http://tagaloglang.com/

https://learningtagalog.com/

http://www.101languages.net/tagalog/

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

Does anyone have experience with a course for Tagalog? I use translators and pick up a few words but I am completely terrible. My nose bleeds Tagalog.

Looking for advice for a course!

I started but here is my quandary. My wife is primary Cebuano speaker. Our friends are both Visayan and Tagalog. All the Visayans speak Tagalog, but few of the Tagalogs speak Visayan. So they swap back and forth all the time. I wold have to learn two languages to figure out what they are saying.

All of them speak English. Almost every Pinoy I know speaks good English.. So I gave up.

[kev_n_jena 89]

I started but here is my quandary. My wife is primary Cebuano speaker. Our friends are both Visayan and Tagalog. All the Visayans speak Tagalog, but few of the Tagalogs speak Visayan. So they swap back and forth all the time. I wold have to learn two languages to figure out what they are saying.

All of them speak English. Almost every Pinoy I know speaks good English.. So I gave up.

Yep, about the same here. My inlaws speak Waray Waray in N. Samar. Her mothers side of the family all speak Visayan in N. Mindanao and her friends here mostly speak Tagalog. I've picked up words in all three and mix them up every time I try to use them. We plan on teaching our son a little Tagalog so maybe I'll pick up some more myself.

I bought a book and cd's on Tagalog when we first started dating. I didn't put in the effort though.

Edited September 5, 2012 by kev_n_jena

[X Factor 1,112]

I gave up trying too. Good thing my fiancee speaks fluent English and as is typical in the Philippines completed her college in English.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

I am in the same boat as some of y'all. My fiance speaks primarily Cebuano/Bisaya where she lives in Mindanao and often times the only Tagalog you will hear is on the TV. So it is hard trying to learn. Plus when I went to get the Rosetta Stone to learn Tagalog her and her family were like "Why? We speak Bisaya not Tagalog". I guess its a whole culture thing going on. But I have learned basic Tagalog and Bisaya. Not conversational yet but getting there.

Just have your fiance/wife speak her language to you at home and have her teach you as well. My fiance loves to teach me while we are in bed just talking to each other or riding aroung on the motorbike.

[lbounds 16]

When my wife first came to the US she was shy to speak English to people often. She thought her pronunciation was not good. I gave her Rosetta stone English where she would speak words and get scored on pronunciation. The first day she tried she was getting 90-100% scores. Maybe that gave her a little more confidence but after she was here a while it wasn't an issue.

I tried learning Tagalog but didn't go far with it since my wife and family speak English well enough. The Rosetta stone method is much more interesting to me rather than just listening to someone talk on a recording.

[IsmoBem 1]

Rosetta Stone has a great self learning course....but quite spendy.

I found a pretty good book on amazon for $14

but mostly I learn from my wife. I tell her to speak tagalog often so I can learn everyday.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I gave up trying too. Good thing my fiancee speaks fluent English and as is typical in the Philippines completed her college in English.

Same here. You can always tell when my wife is typing instead of me. The grammar is much better.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

I am in the same boat as some of y'all. My fiance speaks primarily Cebuano/Bisaya where she lives in Mindanao and often times the only Tagalog you will hear is on the TV. So it is hard trying to learn. Plus when I went to get the Rosetta Stone to learn Tagalog her and her family were like "Why? We speak Bisaya not Tagalog". I guess its a whole culture thing going on. But I have learned basic Tagalog and Bisaya. Not conversational yet but getting there.

Just have your fiance/wife speak her language to you at home and have her teach you as well. My fiance loves to teach me while we are in bed just talking to each other or riding aroung on the motorbike.

I do think it's important to learn some words and try to learn about her culture. I mean if you have kids they are going to be 50% Pinoy. Learn the culture.

[LSnBigBear 61]

Rosetta Stone is the best for learning a foreign language. I lived in RP many years and found similar like others mentioned that the language there is difficult to pick up on. Past, present and future tenses are next to non excistent. I knew Missionaries that went to school for a year straight to learn the language. I mastered about 25% in 5 years. I did not have to apply myself however due to my staff and friends speaking English. Careful if you live there and learn this as you will find it interesting and sometimes insulting at what is spoken about us. I am a large man so when I spoke cebuano back to some the look on their face was priceless I am trying my hand at spanish now and since I have done this I lost all my call it Filipino tongue as it spanish and Tagalog/Bisayian are different. Except for Opaw (Bald) or Tambuk (fat) lol

[actob99 156]

Rosetta Stone and the wife/fiancee are the best ways. The only way to really learn is to submerge yourself in the culture and language to get better. All my friends there speak good english so while I was living there it was very slow. I was doing Rosetta Stone on the road and then practicing with GF at the time and was making progress. I started getting better when I was off for months at a time and conversing with Abs in Tagolog. I really starting doing ok when we were in her province and only 1 or 2 spoke english. When your Tagay redhorse and emperador, they want to talk to you so had to start throwing Tagolog out there. Of course there is laughing but its all a great time.. I have also busted some people talking to fiancee about me, not bad things, and spoke to them in Tagolog and what a look. And she would say ya, he knows Tagolog. Thats the rewArding side.

In Abs province everyone speaks visayas and a little Illicono, but I tell everyone I need to know Tagolog first and then can work on the others. They all know Tagolog in the Phils pretty much so its the best one to learn first in my opinion. I can tell you my taxi fare/ Trike fares have gone down since learning a little, lol!!

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

Rosetta Stone and the wife/fiancee are the best ways. The only way to really learn is to submerge yourself in the culture and language to get better. All my friends there speak good english so while I was living there it was very slow. I was doing Rosetta Stone on the road and then practicing with GF at the time and was making progress. I started getting better when I was off for months at a time and conversing with Abs in Tagolog. I really starting doing ok when we were in her province and only 1 or 2 spoke english. When your Tagay redhorse and emperador, they want to talk to you so had to start throwing Tagolog out there. Of course there is laughing but its all a great time.. I have also busted some people talking to fiancee about me, not bad things, and spoke to them in Tagolog and what a look. And she would say ya, he knows Tagolog. Thats the rewArding side.

In Abs province everyone speaks visayas and a little Illicono, but I tell everyone I need to know Tagolog first and then can work on the others. They all know Tagolog in the Phils pretty much so its the best one to learn first in my opinion. I can tell you my taxi fare/ Trike fares have gone down since learning a little, lol!!

Yes that always help drinking alittle bit. I tell people I have Caribao Bisaya and they have Caribao English, when we start drinking we can usually understand each other hahahahaha. The best way is to submerge yourself in the area and the language. That is a big PLUS+. I difinently get looks trying to speak Bisaya/Tagalog, but everyone usually understands what I mean. Then laugh and smile at my accent.

[JoBri 548]

Am fortunate my wife was an English teacher. I am trying to teach our son some German though.