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| enigmaucb Newbie United States UsedCardBoardBoxes.c Joined 5264 days ago 3 posts - 4 votes Speaks: German* | Message 1 of 6 28 June 2010 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I am interested in learning a Filipino language called "Visaya/Bisaya and/or Cebuano" but for the life of me I cannot find any quality material to help me learn this. Can you help me? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 6 28 June 2010 at 10:09pm | IP Logged |
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I have a small "Conversational English-Cebuano" by C.S.Canonigo, which has the advantage over most language guides that it repeats similar constructions with slight changes instead of totally different examples every time. This means that you actually can guess a few things about how the language functions. The only problem is that it probably isn't easy to buy outside the Philippines.
Visayan is just one among teh Visayan languages, but the others are probably even more difficult to find materials for. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6204 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 3 of 6 29 June 2010 at 12:58am | IP Logged |
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If you search Amazon for "cebuano", there are a number of books that show up, some of which look pretty good (I won't link anything, since I don't have experience with any of the courses). Let me know what you end up using and what you think of it; I'm interested in learning Cebuano/Bisaya one day as well.
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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 6 29 June 2010 at 2:51am | IP Logged |
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Amazon.de has a few books, including one in the "Wort für Wort" series.
http://www.amazon.de/Kauderwelsch-Cebuano-Visaya-Philippinen -Wort/dp/3894163380 http://www.amazon.de/Cebuano-Visaya-AusspracheTrainer-Audio- CD/dp/3831761264 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| slidemasterx Pentaglot Newbie Philippines Joined 5886 days ago 37 posts - 42 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog, Cebuano*, Spanish, DutchC1 Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 5 of 6 29 June 2010 at 11:56am | IP Logged |
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I remember finding a really concise cebuano grammar book on UZ translations.
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| Whodathunkit Newbie United Kingdom Joined 2957 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cebuano | Message 6 of 6 05 January 2017 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
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Material for cebuano/bisaya is hard.
Magbinisaya primer (not sure anything else really released but is displayed on a website somewhere). I don't seem to get on well with textbooks and doesn't suit demands on me. What worked in the end was Memrise (baas course) doing virtually all the courses and writing a few of my own. Practice -ing-a-ong for the nasal ng sound and reading ceb.wikipedia.org. Ww2, el cid, usa etc. Books very hard to get. Writers will use English or tagalog. Audio from librivox but very outdated and very little. Various bible mp3s. All sources will be deep and not colloquial. I'm interested in new resources/ideas 1 person has voted this message useful |
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