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Learning Tagalog

Learn to Speak, Read and Write Filipino/Tagalog Quickly! (Free Online Audio & Flash Cards)
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Learning Tagalog by Joi Barrios and Julia Camagong is a comprehensive guide designed to help beginners grasp the basics of the Tagalog language. Through engaging exercises and cultural notes, readers can develop conversational skills and deepen their understanding of Filipino culture. This self-help resource supports personal growth by making language learning accessible and enjoyable.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in mastering the basics of the Tagalog language while also understanding more about Filipino culture. Ideal for beginners, it offers practical lessons and exercises that can help you develop your language skills in a self-paced, engaging way.

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Learning Tagalog

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A complete language course and pocket dictionary in one! Let Filipino experts Barrios and Camagong teach you how to enjoy this beautiful language. Learning Tagalog brings the Tagalog language and culture of the Philippines to life, providing you with all the basics you need to start speaking the language immediately.

Designed for beginners, this invaluable guide teaches you how to speak, read, and write Tagalog quickly through structured, progressive lessons with a focus on conversational communication. A glossary of commonly used words and phrases, useful notes, pronunciation, greetings, sentence structure, idiomatic expressions, etiquette, and cultural dos and don'ts are included throughout.

Key features include:

  • A focus on practical and authentic daily communication.
  • Suitable for beginning learners with no prior Tagalog knowledge.
  • Manga illustrations with short dialogues for easy memorisation.
  • A handy English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English dictionary.
  • Structured, progressive lessons.
  • Fully Romanised scripts throughout.
  • Companion native-speaker audio recordings.
  • A glossary of commonly used words and phrases.

Free native-speaker MP3 audio recordings are available online and enable language learners to improve their pronunciation.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780804855815

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Tuttle Publishing

Illustration: online audio; manga-style comic strips and illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 482g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Joi Barrios teaches Filipino and Philippine literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She previously served as an associate professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman and taught at the Osaka University of Foreign Studies, UCLA, and UCI. She has won fourteen national literary awards and was among the 100 women chosen as Weavers of History for the Philippine Centennial Celebration for her contributions to literature. In 2004, she also received the TOWNS (Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service) Award.

Julia Camagong teaches Filipino at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York, and is the Co-Executive Director of Philippine Forum, a non-profit community organization based in New York City. She is also Vice President for Programs of the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON), a U.S.-wide alliance of community organizations and institutions working for the rights and welfare of Filipinos.

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