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| artistscientist Diglot Groupie United States artistscientist.blog Joined 5593 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 25 of 37 03 September 2009 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I just went to my University Library. I spoke with the head of Southeast Asia
Collection. She is going to order to audio course for the Pilipino Through Self Instruction (they already have the books)! The course has a total of 105 hours of audio and four volumes of books! I actually sent an email to John Wolff, the Professor who created the course. His description of the materials make it sound like a goldmine of information. As soon as the audio comes in I will start studying and keep you updated on what my thoughts are about the course. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| artistscientist Diglot Groupie United States artistscientist.blog Joined 5593 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 26 of 37 14 September 2009 at 5:34am | IP Logged | ||
I finally found a good resource. It is the Ang Biblia verson of the bible in Tagalog. It is in video format (audio reading by a Tagalog speaker and video showing the written text). Hearing the proper pronounciation is awesome. Good luck. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6960 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 27 of 37 24 September 2009 at 3:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Teach Yourself Tagalog?
Comes with CDs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| drfeelgood17 Bilingual Hexaglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6288 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog*, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Japanese, Latin, Arabic (Written) | Message 28 of 37 24 September 2009 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Depending on your level of proficiency, rather than searching for decades-old material, you might find it more
useful to watch current Filipino cable TV. Subscribing might be a good idea. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5889 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 29 of 37 28 October 2009 at 7:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone here completed Beginning Tagalog by Bowen et al? I just procured the CDs from a local library (by the grace of God) and the books. What results did you have?
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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6960 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 30 of 37 28 October 2009 at 7:09am | IP Logged | ||
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There's nothing wrong with 'Teach Yourself Tagalog'. I have a copy and it looks like an excellent start to the language. What is putting people off it, exactly?
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 5889 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 31 of 37 30 October 2009 at 6:00am | IP Logged | ||
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An update on "Beginning Tagalog" by Bowen. If one can manage to get a hold of the CDs (Reading booklet and text are relatively easy to find on amazon), this is a great book and has a WEALTH of drills and repetitions, dialogs, readings that start later on, as well as plenty of technical grammar discussions. It is very much influenced and similar to the outlay of FSI. The text and reader come with 40 CDs! A local library happed to have it.
For anyone that prefers audio lingual (drill based) method like me, this and A Course in Pilipino by Wolff et al are the only options out there it seems. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| artistscientist Diglot Groupie United States artistscientist.blog Joined 5593 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English*, Tagalog Studies: Spanish | Message 32 of 37 30 October 2009 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Just picked up the audio for the Wolff course. I am very impressed with the content so far. I have't had much time to use it yet though. My only complaint would be the way in which the audio cassettes were digitized. The noise reduction is overdone and drowns out the voices too much. On one of the tracks the voice is almost completely uninteligible becuase of incorrect noise filtering. The rest of the tracks sound decent. The accent is perfect.
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