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Stelle
Bilingual Triglot
Senior Member
Canada
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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 89 of 117
23 August 2014 at 12:39am | IP Logged 
We're now 3 weeks into the six-week challenge, making it the half-way point. I'm definitely enjoying this 6WC
more than the last one, probably because I can do more with the language now. Because I can use more sources
and do more stuff, it's much more enjoyable to put in more time.

I'm currently in 13th place with 32 hours and 27 minutes. I'd love to say that I was aiming for top 10, but the
10th place participant is already twelve hours ahead of me, so the odds aren't good. The top three are clocking in
at about 120 hours each so far -amazing!

Today:

listen to something (17 minutes)

Teach Yourself lesson 8, dialogue 3. I also listened to a few old audio files from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo.

read something (20 minutes)

I read from my book bin today: some texts from my course, two Napoleon books (easy readers that I translated),
and Prinsipeng Malungkot (The Sad Prince), a bilingual picture book.

write something (20 minutes)

I finished translating the third Napoleon book, but there are still a few things that I need to check with my tutor
next week. I also handwrote the dialogue from Teach Yourself.

practice vocabulary (10 minutes)

anki and memrise

other (27 minutes)

Pimsleur lesson 12. I'm glad I repeated this lesson; it was much easier today than it was yesterday.

TOTAL TIME FOR YESTERDAY: 94 MINUTES
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Stelle
Bilingual Triglot
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Canada
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Joined 4137 days ago

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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 90 of 117
23 August 2014 at 4:16pm | IP Logged 
I put up a blog post with pictures of the contents of my Tagalog book bin:

Reading Easy Stuff (with pictures)
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marimorimo
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Speaks: English, Japanese
Studies: SpanishB2

 
 Message 91 of 117
25 August 2014 at 12:40pm | IP Logged 
As a Filipino who has been hoping for my husband (Japanese) to pick up the language, your
Taga-log is inspiring!

I wouldn't mind giving him "true immersion" so to speak, by speaking to him in Tagalog at
home, but he's resistant to the idea. He prefers learning through grammar books *shakes
head*. But he is pretty good at listening and can imitate a lot of words with a nice
accent even without knowing what they mean.

Edited by marimorimo on 25 August 2014 at 12:40pm

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Stelle
Bilingual Triglot
Senior Member
Canada
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Joined 4137 days ago

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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 92 of 117
25 August 2014 at 1:52pm | IP Logged 
marimorimo wrote:
As a Filipino who has been hoping for my husband (Japanese) to pick up the language,
your
Taga-log is inspiring!

I wouldn't mind giving him "true immersion" so to speak, by speaking to him in Tagalog at
home, but he's resistant to the idea. He prefers learning through grammar books *shakes
head*. But he is pretty good at listening and can imitate a lot of words with a nice
accent even without knowing what they mean.

Thanks marimorimo! I wish that my husband would be open to "true immersion" at home. He keeps answering
me in English, though. I guess because it's frustrating to talk to someone who can only talk like a toddler. Haha!
His English is perfect (truly - better than more native English speakers), and we live in Canada, so learning
Tagalog isn't really necessary. I'm just doing it because I want to!

Good luck helping your husband to learn Tagalog!
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Stelle
Bilingual Triglot
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Canada
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Joined 4137 days ago

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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 93 of 117
25 August 2014 at 2:45pm | IP Logged 
Saturday, I did absolutely nothing. Not a word! It was a nice break, to be honest. And besides, it really couldn't be
helped. We had 8 episodes of Hell on Wheels to get through. Ha!

Yesterday...

listening: old dialogues, and the last dialogue of Teach Yourself lesson 8
reading: 20 minutes with my book bin
writing: copying out the TY dialogue in my notebook
vocabulary: anki (had 2 days' worth...yuck!)
other: lesson 13 of Pimsleur - no difficulty, will move on to lesson 14

total time spent this weekend: 89 minutes
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Stelle
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Joined 4137 days ago

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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 94 of 117
26 August 2014 at 2:48am | IP Logged 
Quiet day today...

reading: 20 minutes with my book bin
vocabulary: anki - ran through my decks and inputted vocabulary from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo lesson 9
other: lesson 14 of Pimsleur - will be finished with my 15 lessons of Tagalog tomorrow!

total time spent this weekend: 64 minutes
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Stelle
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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 95 of 117
27 August 2014 at 3:13am | IP Logged 
talk to someone: good half-hour conversation with my tutor today. I really have a hard time expressing
myself, which can be frustrating, but I have to remember to stick to the easy stuff for now.

listen to something: 30 minutes of Tagalog cartoons while on the treadmill. I'm on week 4 day 1 of the
Couch to 5 K running program. I'm glad I'm sticking to it, since I've put on a lot of weight over the past year. It
helps that running time is also language time. Once a week, I watch my Tagalog playlist, and twice a week I watch
a Spanish comedy show.

write something: 10 minutes correcting a paragraph with my tutor

vocabulary: anki and memrise

other: Pimsleur lesson 15. I'm *almost* finished. I need to repeat lesson 15 one more time, and then I'll
post my review of Pimsleur Tagalog. Officially, there are 30 lessons, but I only got the first 15 for free, and there's
no way I'm paying over 100 dollars for the last 15.

TOTAL TIME FOR TODAY: 108 minutes
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Stelle
Bilingual Triglot
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Canada
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Joined 4137 days ago

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Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish
Studies: Tagalog

 
 Message 96 of 117
27 August 2014 at 5:35pm | IP Logged 
Notes on verb conjugations

So far I've been working with mag- verbs. No problem. They're pretty straightforward, a combination of changing
prefixes (mag- for infinitive and contemplated; nag- for completed and incomplete) and infixes (reduplication of
first syllable of root word for incomplete and contemplated):

mag-aral (infinitive - to study)
nag-aral (completed - studied)
nag-aaral (incomplete - studies/is studying)
mag-aaral (contemplated - will study)

magtrabaho (infinitive - to work)
nagtrabaho (completed - worked)
nagtatrabaho (incomplete - works/is working)
magtatrabaho (contemplated - will work)

English loan words can be turned into verbs by adding mag-:

mag-kompyewter - to use a computer
mag-share - to share
mag-swim - to swim

Today I started working on -um- verbs. These seem much harder for me to wrap my head around! They involve
adding an -um- infix to a root word (which is always Tagalog and never an English loan word). Let me see if I can
make any sense out of it.

root word: bili (buy)

add -um- before the first vowel to make the infinitive "to buy" (which is the same as the completed "bought":
bumili

don't add -um- and just reduplicate the first syllable of the root work to make the contemplated "will buy":
bibili

add -um- before the first vowel of the completed aspect to make the incomplete "buys/is buying":
bumibili

I can figure out the contemplated aspect relatively quickly, but for incomplete (the one that I most commonly use
at this point), it feels like I'm doing math:
root word + figure out the contemplated + -um- = present tense

And by that time the person listening to me has given up and moved on to other things. Ha! I need to practice
the most common ones as chunks, and hopefully figuring out new ones will come more easily with practice.

A few more common -um- verbs that I need to learn as chunks:

gumastos (to spend / spent)
gumagastos (spends / is spending)
gagastos (will spend)

humanap (to look for / looked for)
humahanap (looks for / is looking for)
hahanap (will look for)

lumapit (to move closer / moved closer)
lumalapit (moves closer / is moving closer)
lalapit (will move closer)


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