Learn Tagalog

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This website is about learning Tagalog/Filipino but many foreigners are not aware that Tagalog is not spoken exactly the same way in all ares of the Philippines. Not only is Tagalog not spoken day to day in all areas of the Philippines, but even where it is, it …

One of the things language learning enthusiasts will tell you is to read, listen to, and watch things in the language that you are interested in. After 15 years teaching computer courses at a private school and at a private university in the USA I made a huge …

Taglish As you learn Tagalog and begin to converse with Filipinos, you will undoubtedly encounter “Taglish“. It is a “dialect” that is prevalent in the Manila area.  Taglish is a combination of Tagalog and English.  If one visits Manila, they may be surprised at how many people understand …

In the last post I mentioned some of the most common greetings I encounter everyday here in the Philippines. I wrote about “Saan ka pupunta?” and “Saan ka galing?” and also “Kumusta?”. In this post I want to mention a few more common ones. I don’t here these …

I am currently living in the Philippines (since April 2014). I live in a poor area of Pampanga province. My host family speaks Tagalog at home even though the local language is Kapampangan. The area where I live is one of the “resettlement” communities that were created right …

Hello and welome to the first blog post on this site. The other pages on this site are “static” pages and not really part of a blog. I’ve been wanting to create a place to write about Tagalog on a regular basis. This “blog” area gives me that …