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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7003 days ago 484 posts - 502 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 9 of 37 16 November 2006 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
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Beginning Tagalog, mentioned above looks very good (& has good reviews on amazon). The seasite link mentioned above also refers to a textbook that could be worth investigating.
Tagalog should be a lot easier than thai, with the right materials. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| brooke Triglot Newbie United States Joined 6422 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese | Message 10 of 37 17 November 2006 at 9:51pm | IP Logged |
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I've come across good reviews for Victor Eclar Romero's Learn Filipino. The publisher's website has previews for both the book and the audio CD, as well as a number of excellent, free online lessons.
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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7003 days ago 484 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 11 of 37 18 November 2006 at 5:00am | IP Logged |
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I guess you mean the amazon reviews?
I just noticed this also: Headstart for Philippines With 13 tapes, it has plenty of audio. With a bit of luck it'll end up online at some point too... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7003 days ago 484 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 12 of 37 27 November 2006 at 7:19am | IP Logged |
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Some free tagalog materials in this thread :)
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| luckyboy1300 Diglot Newbie Philippines Joined 6407 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: Tagalog*, English Studies: Spanish, French, Japanese | Message 13 of 37 02 December 2006 at 10:43pm | IP Logged |
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or you could use the rosetta stone tagalog, w/c comes in 2 levels but as a native in the language i have tried it in the demo and heck they pronounce it perfectly but they're lousy, made me think they're not native speakers at all.
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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7003 days ago 484 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 14 of 37 09 December 2006 at 1:16pm | IP Logged |
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31 half hour audio files for
pilippino (through self instruction) (presumably vol 1) are currently available for free download at cornell media library. Judging from the reviews, this is one of the better tagalog resources out there - although its grammar explanations may not be too hot - but since the tapes sell for around USD 200, and just about everything else is password protected, it seems possible that these tapes should be password protected too. And since everyone was decrying the lack of spoken tagalog resources, it might be an idea to get downloading... Edited by onebir on 10 December 2006 at 5:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Clintaroo Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6711 days ago 189 posts - 201 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Tagalog, Indonesian | Message 15 of 37 12 December 2006 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
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I finally had the opportunity to purchase 'Teach Yourself Tagalog' about two weeks ago. So far the course is passable. It's great because I finally have a course, but the grammatical explanations aren't great (in fact there is a lack of them), a lot of vocabulary is introduced after each dialogue phonebook-style and some speakers on the audio CD are hard to listen to for non-native speakers. In particular, there is a flamboyant female speaker whose voice should not have been utilised for a language learning course. Verbs are seemingly not covered in detail until about halfway through the book. Until then it is difficult to comprehend sentence structure and the way verbs work, and the explanations of the difference between 'ang' and 'ng' haven't been fully covered yet (as I suspect) but so far it hasn't been well explained.
All in all it's not bad. Most of the scenarios are of a usually mundane character. But if you intend to learn some Tagalog like I do, then it's ultimately useful if only for the fact that there aren't a lot of resources out there. Edited by Clintaroo on 12 December 2006 at 7:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7003 days ago 484 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 16 of 37 12 December 2006 at 7:59am | IP Logged |
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this seems in line with most modern teach yourself courses
the pilipino through self instruction books are USD20 here - actually cheaper, volume for volume than the TY book. and at the moment you can download around 13 hours of audio (corresponding to vol 1 i think) for free. they might be better... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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