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    Question I want to learn Tagalog...any advice?

    Have any Brit guys successfully learned Tagalog? I want to learn it fluently..

    The only thing I can say is "Ako ay pangit panot!"

    A few other things aswell maybe but...

    Is there a recommended way of learning?

    Salamat in advance..

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    Simple, ask your wife, oh god no cost of money tagalog version : SIMPLE, TANONGIN MO ASAWA MO, WALA KA PANG GASTOS LOL


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    i give u an example british knows how to speak tagalog fluently,like TAWI2
    my hubby know also 1 word in tagalog,and its 'MAHAL KITA'which is i love it to hear


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    Smile

    Learn French instead!

    Al.

    P.S. Lessons given!
    Pressed rat and warthog closed down their shop!


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    Nigel, my hubby doesnt want to learn tagalog at all, he said he is not gonna earn money by speaking tagalog, but English yes, lol


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    don't bother(watch football or tennis or goto the pub), do what i did, give the misses an Oxford dictionary for her birthday but make sure its the concise version so it doesn't hurt so much when she throws it at you


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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan View Post
    Learn French instead!

    Al.

    P.S. Lessons given!
    What? And sound like Inspector Clueso? "And do something about your filthy monkey!"

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    Salamat/Thanks for your replies guys and girls but I was hoping someone could recommend a dvd or something?

    I have CD-ROM that is helpful and an audio CD already..but it's still not doing it for me.. Does nobody know of any classes I can go to?

    There are 7 Planes Of Existance:

    7 — Material Plane: The earth, where you are right now.
    6 — Plane of Forces
    5 — Astral Plane
    4 — Mental Plane
    3 — Too mysterious to describe.
    2 — Too mysterious to describe.
    1 — Too mysterious to describe.




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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post
    Salamat/Thanks for your replies guys and girls but I was hoping someone could recommend a dvd or something?

    I have CD-ROM that is helpful and an audio CD already..but it's still not doing it for me.. Does nobody know of any classes I can go to?
    probably the best teaching s/w is Rosetta stone, try b4 u buy find it on your favourite torrent site

    http://www.rosettastone.com/learn-tagalog


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    Try the website BYKI . com , http://www.byki.com/ they have free programs to download for lots of languages including tagalog, seems really good so far just need to find more time for it.

    Good luck!!


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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post
    Salamat/Thanks for your replies guys and girls but I was hoping someone could recommend a dvd or something?

    I have CD-ROM that is helpful and an audio CD already..but it's still not doing it for me.. Does nobody know of any classes I can go to?
    you can try an English-Filipino dictionary so you can get the tagalog/filipino translation of every english word you're interested to know....
    "10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% is decided by how you react"
    "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost"


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ana_may365 View Post
    i give u an example british knows how to speak tagalog fluently,like TAWI2
    ... Oddly enough Ana_may, Tawi2 was the first person that sprang to MY mind, too!! Alas he's gone 'AWOL', and quite a number of us have, within the past hour or two, been trying hard to locate the guy's present whereabouts ...


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    Two books i would recommend Nigel.

    1 Basic Tagalog for Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs by Paraluman S. Aspillera.
    2 Tagalog-English English Tagalog (Pilipino) Dictionary by Carl R. Galvez Rubino

    The Basic tagalog is great and see if you can get it with the CD. I hear it has editions with the CD but i never got one!

    Vowels are pronounced like:

    a as in ask, grass, alms, far
    e as in end, carpet
    i as in eve, mete
    o as in obey, tobacco
    u as in food, moon

    This is hard to master unless you practice with your mahal

    Then Consonants Ba Ka Da Ga Ha La Ma Na NGa Pa Ra Sa Ta Wa Ya

    Ng reminds me of monty python for some reason...the knights who ni. maybe thats just my strange sense of humour.

    The Dictionary is big and fully comprehensive and uses more advanced things than the basics.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    ... Oddly enough Ana_may, Tawi2 was the first person that sprang to MY mind, too!! Alas he's gone 'AWOL', and quite a number of us have, within the past hour or two, been trying hard to locate the guy's present whereabouts ...
    dont worry arthur,i think hes in honeymoonmaybe somebody out there who catch his already
    hes comeback one day


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    my husband knows tagalog and visayan and he's very proud to speaks our language but sometime we argue a lot if i teach him bcoz our form of sentences is back to front hehe
    all things are possible!


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    I never have taught my husband how to speak tagalog or even my own native language which is Ilonggo. But sometimes I've got shocked when he tries to ask me for "a cup of tea" because he said it in tagalog correctly and perfectly and no accent at all. I asked him when and how did he learn tagalog and he simply reply I have "Rosetta Stone" tagalog audio book in my iPOD. So, he learn it by listening to that. He knows now, if I'm angry cause Im counting him from 1 to 10 but the sad factor is I will starting in 1 and he will finish the counting until he reach 10.


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    i cant wait to learn tagalog , anne will teach me when she arrives here , as we both want to teach our children to speak both english and tagalog

    as for now i have learnt a little and this is enough to make any filipina happy

    mahal kita = i love you

    mahal din kita = i love you too

    mahal n mahal kita = i love you so much

    mahal kita asawa ko = i love you my wife

    ko = my ( but as you have noticed it is placed after wife instead of before like u would expect in english , using this knowledge u will find it easy to construct a sentence in tagalog


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    [QUOTE=charlwill;150019]I never have taught my husband how to speak tagalog or even my own native language which is Ilonggo.

    Hi Charlwill! Firstly, my apologies to Nigel for posting this message here. I'm just happy knowing about your dialect which is Ilonggo as I myself can speak it with fluency. I have worked in Iloilo for 2yrs back in 2005-2007. Halong! Salamat gid! (Take care & ThankU)


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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post

    Is there a recommended way of learning?

    Salamat in advance..
    How about get a tip from Tawi2x????


    ...peace tawi ...its just not normal not having u around....
    gising na po...
    Keep moving on...


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    Quote Originally Posted by meandwifey View Post
    i cant wait to learn tagalog , anne will teach me when she arrives here , as we both want to teach our children to speak both english and tagalog

    as for now i have learnt a little and this is enough to make any filipina happy

    mahal kita = i love you

    mahal din kita = i love you too

    mahal n mahal kita = i love you so much

    mahal kita asawa ko = i love you my wife

    ko = my ( but as you have noticed it is placed after wife instead of before like u would expect in english , using this knowledge u will find it easy to construct a sentence in tagalog
    the only tag word you need to know and fear is 'pera'


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    Quote Originally Posted by joebloggs View Post
    the only tag word you need to know and fear is 'pera'
    nooooooo!

    i dont want to hear it


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    too late for me,my wife as already spent it!
    i have learnt to do what my wife says!


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    What is pera?

    There are 7 Planes Of Existance:

    7 — Material Plane: The earth, where you are right now.
    6 — Plane of Forces
    5 — Astral Plane
    4 — Mental Plane
    3 — Too mysterious to describe.
    2 — Too mysterious to describe.
    1 — Too mysterious to describe.




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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post
    What is pera?
    money money
    "10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% is decided by how you react"
    "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost"


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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post
    What is pera?
    nigel,you did marry a filipina didnt you? then ask her

    ask her what bolbol is too!
    i have learnt to do what my wife says!


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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel View Post
    What is pera?



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    Quote Originally Posted by jimcarie View Post
    maybe the only tag word a brit guy learns, and never forgets

    i've learn't to my cost, don't go the same way




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    Quote Originally Posted by bornatbirth View Post
    nigel,you did marry a filipina didnt you? then ask her

    ask her what bolbol is too!
    is this another word we need to fear ?


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    Quote Originally Posted by meandwifey View Post
    is this another word we need to fear ?
    "10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% is decided by how you react"
    "The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost"


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    Quote Originally Posted by bornatbirth View Post
    nigel,you did marry a filipina didnt you? then ask her

    ask her what bolbol is too!
    pubic hair, thats bisaya aswell


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