The language

[pennybarry]

wow

hey penny, i am so glad ur husband wants to learn tag, coz it seems to me that many husbands of filipinas aren't interested in learning tagalog/bisaya/illongo/waray wary or whatever!

so MUCH RESPECT to your husband

im sure you will find a great french teacher here

tom

TOM,
I ONLY KNOWS TAGALOG Language AS I AM PURE TAGALOG. Many Visayas married foreigner than Tagalog Region IV (Laguna, Quezon, Bulacan )so most husband married with Visaya prefer to learn Visaya than Tagalog. .
Husband can speak little Tagalog, as I am a patient teacher

[Alan]

Hi Penny,

Of course I am willing to teach you French - it would be a pleasure. Sorry for the tardy reply - just got back from 'up North.'

Tom - thanks for your kind words again mate - how many pints do I owe thee now???

Al

[bigtombowski]

enough to get me drunk

so several hundred

[Alan]

Nice to be back amongst my friends.

Tomorrow I shall start my blog so you can read all the sordid details of 'Al from Wantage and Several Other Places.'

Al

[bigtombowski]

did U Bring Me A Saveloy And A Pie From The Grimmest Of Places???

[Alan]

I actually DID bring you some Hollands meat pies mate. HEAVEN!!!!

[bigtombowski]

you gonna keep them for me til i come over ?

[Alan]

They are in the freezer awaiting your arrival!!

[bigtombowski]

YYYYAAAAAAYYYY!!!

WELCOME to the community

[joebloggs]

They are in the freezer awaiting your arrival!!

Alan do us all a favor, eat the pies and throw bigtom in the freezer

[bigtombowski]

Joe, how could u say something like that? LoL!

i am affronted! How i wish Peanutz were here to give me some more shocked sounding words to say! ahhhh


anyway

i've been locked in a freezer before

o gosh. don't want to think about that one again! LoL!

[Peanutz]

Alan do us all a favor, eat the pies and throw bigtom in the freezer

TOM WILL BE COLD IF YOU THROW HIM INSIDE THE FREEZER JOE!!!

YOU ARE BEING MEAN TO YOUR TWIN PIGGY!!!

[jeffro]

Magandang hapon !!! of course i am cheating ,my daughter got me a book Teach yourself tagalog from our library!!!, I think the hard part is understanding when its spoken to you . I love my anghel speaking tagalog to me wow!!!! i dont understand much of what she is saying but she sounds soooo sweet!!!!! . aahh.

[gadgets]

there's basic tagalog/bisaya but there's also the fondness of using slangs. I spent the first 15 years of my life in Davao but migrated to the US, so I can understand and communicate in tagalog/bisaya/bisalog but when it comes to slang I am lost.

[Alan]

I'm still struggling with visayan.

Al.

[jimeve]

maayong hapon Al,

back to Bohol tomorrow, later back to uk.

Jim,

[Alan]

maayong hapon Al,

back to Bohol tomorrow, later back to uk.

Jim,

Fancy a few cold ones this evening then Jim?

Al.

[Mrs.JMajor]

Get Out - La-yas
Stink - Ma-ba-ho
Ugly - Pa-nget

tomm learn something as well
bayad po----------
para --------------
(hint u can use that words on the jeep) im not gonna give the meaning to you al (assignment)

masarap ---he always hear that lol

[kimmi]

Can i translate it AteJuliet??he he he

[Andy]

I hope it's OK with the Admin, but I'd recommend the books at the web site below.

http://www.tagalog1.com/

I've fairly recently bought books 1 & 2 - they start at the very beginning & have CDs so you know how to pronounce words correctly. I find it is also good to learn via a book, as I can ask Rose to explain things or help me with the pronounication although she's an Illongo from near Bacolod.

The company is in the USA so the exchange rate is very good for us!!

Andy
Surrey, UK

[gWaPito]

Hi Alan
This may sound a little mad, but I've been sleeping with my 'ipod'.
This advise came from an Oxford don back in September.
It's working so far for me.

I downloaded the Tagalog courses from 'Limewire' for free.

[mikeh]

I would like to share this link for everyone who need to learn our tagalog language and those non-tagalog speaker.

With the permission of the Admin.


http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_mainpage.htm

Thanks,
This seems to be a great site for learning tagalog. Planned lessons with audio to match.Just fantastic.....I shall definitely be using this site.

Thanks again

Mike