Books to Learn Tagalog

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<p>Can anyone here recommend a good book to learn tagalog?</p>

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<p>What is tagalog? Is that a game, puzzle or what?</p>

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<p>I don’t speak Tagalog (it’s a language of the Philippines), but I found a nice site here:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_mainpage.htm[/url]”>http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_mainpage.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Click on For Tagalog Learners, then Beginning Tagalog Lessons on the left, then Beginning Tagalog 1 Lessons, and the various lessons are on the left.</p>

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<p>Wow thanks…the site looks helpful…</p>

<p>Does anyone else have any other recommendations???</p>

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<p>Do you have Philippine blood in you?</p>

<p>I do, and I speak Filipino/Tagalog fluently. I prefer Filipino because it’s easier, in the sense that it shares cognate words with English and Spanish. For example, Tagalog uses aklat for book, and Filipino uses libro. Tagalog uses tisa for chalk; Filipino uses tsok.</p>

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<p>Hindi ako maruno ng Tagalog.</p>

<p>My parents are both Filipino immigrants - they tried to teach it to me when I was younger, but then I started speaking it to the other kids on base (dad was Navy, of course lol), so they stopped.</p>

<p>gianscolere, what dialect do your parents speak? Mine are kapampangan.</p>

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<p>I’m actually full Fillipino. I’m quite impressed by everyone else on these boards who are fluent in several languages (and many not even relating to their heritage at that). Yet here I am just learning the basics of mine. I understand it completely, yet I want to learn how to write it and speak more fluidly.</p>

<p>P.S. I didn’t know their is a difference between Tagalog and Fillipino. I always assumed they were the same. I guess I’m mistaken…Thanks for the info!</p>

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<p>Somebodynew, my parents speak Filipino/Tagalog. Dad is from Subic Bay-US Navy Base (<a href=“Subic Bay - Wikipedia);%5B/url%5D”>Subic Bay - Wikipedia);</a> Mom is from Quezon City, the former capital of the Philippines (<a href=“Quezon City - Wikipedia)%5B/url%5D”>Quezon City - Wikipedia)</a>.</p>

<p>To Cardinal- Filipino and Tagalog are mostly the same, so they are often perceived as one language/dialect. Don’t think that they’re completely different from each other :).</p>