Would you learn Tagalog? Nagsasalita ba kayo ng Tagalog?

[silver13]

Paul is making a lot of progress with his Tagalog learning, now he downloaded the lyrics of the song ANAK and tried to translate it, we'll see how far he goes :-) It helps him by listening Tagalog music. His eager to learn, that's a good sign :-) but when I talk in Ilocano, he's lost :-)

[cruisingkerry]

Berts sister gave me her sons tagalog- english school dictionary - but for some reason there is no J or K tagalog words??

[chris40]

i have an english -tagalog dictionary and the k comes after b in it and did,nt see the k at first. take another look in case you missed it too .

[cruisingkerry]

Thanks for that Chris, it certainly does, however I still haven't got J (do no words begin with J?) and the end of the alphabet is sparse too no Q, no U, V, X or Z.

[andypaul]

i've been learning tagalog for months from tapes i bought years ago and from rosetta stone. the thing is i've not told anyone , it's so i know what the misses is saying to her family and what other pinoys are saying, i'm breaking their code. they think all whiteys are clueless

Great minds think alike.

never let on all you know

I wonder how many of da phills on here are now thinking oh no why did i mention the pair of shoes on the phone to my mate now with the hubby in the room

[GaryFifer]

If her name is Imelda I am sure hubby will find out eventually.

[miayela]

My hubby knows little tagalog and ilonggo since im from Iloilo..

He surprised me one time when me and my friends were talking in Ilonggo that he understand what we are talking about..

It shows that Im a good teacher and that his eager to learn our language.

[flomike]

I think my husband is quite good actually in learning filipino/tagalog language he knows most of the part of his body in filipino, he can compose a sentence in filipino in a very funny way but still a good effort. I stopped teaching him but bec we use to go pinoy party most of the time he is learning by hearing it as you know some filipino words mostly are repitition or we use same words again ang again like (oo, bakit, oo naman, sige, doon, dito, saan etc).