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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7123 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 1 of 6 18 November 2011 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Tagalog textbook/course recommendations
I have a friend who has just married a Filipina and he is determined to learn Tagalog. He is very academic and wants to go straight for the grammar of the language to work from. He is a native Italian and would like to take advantage of this by learning the Spanish words before the Austronesian ones, and would like a textbook that caters for this if possible. Could any forum members offer up any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Edited by Fasulye on 18 November 2011 at 6:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6552 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 6 18 November 2011 at 2:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Some past recommendations.
Sever Lack of Spoken Tagalog FSI Tagalog Head Start with Audio L-Lingo 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5601 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 3 of 6 18 November 2011 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do you think that practical? Imagine learning English and memorizing only the Norman words and ignoring the Anglosaxon ones. That would be a real mess, because function and basic words use to be the indigenous ones. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 5085 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 6 24 November 2011 at 8:44am | IP Logged | |||||
Hi. I haven't started Tagalog yet, but it's on my list, so I've been collecting resources. The best book I have so far is Living Language Spoken World Tagalog. A very good book. The recordings are copious and have very little English, which is good. Also I have Teach Yourself and a few others. As for his method, I think it would be better for him just to learn to converse in the language by listening, repeating, and memorising the dialogues in LL. Build up the grammar and vocabulary from there. Then, he can branch out into whatever area takes his fancy. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7123 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 5 of 6 28 November 2011 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
Practical? Probably impossible, but then again, I'm, just passing on a request, without judgement. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7123 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 6 of 6 28 November 2011 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm also a big fan of Living languuage, although I haven't used one of the Spoken World courses yet. Moses McCormick recommends them and I value his evaluations. Thank you to everyone who answered this request, but in the public forum, and off. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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