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| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4107 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 17 of 117 26 January 2014 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
Ah, now everything makes sense! In the Philippines, there's a language called "Chabacano de Zamboanga", which is based on Spanish, but includes many things from aborignal languages. Reading the Wikipedia in that language, I noted that they use the word "maga" a lot, and I always wondered what it meant. Now that I read this, I realised that it comes from Tagalog and is used to form the plural. Good luck with your two maga languages! :P 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4947 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 18 of 117 26 January 2014 at 10:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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No problem Stelle, good luck with your studies. I've heard Tagalog has one of the most
complicated grammars ever, which is intriguing, given that Indonesian is assumed to be so simple. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3925 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 19 of 117 27 January 2014 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
That's really interesting! I enjoyed checking out that link. Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3925 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 20 of 117 27 January 2014 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
Hmmmm. I don't know whether or not that's a good thing. Ha! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3925 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 21 of 117 30 January 2014 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Not much to say today! I learned some new words, but no new "a-ha" moments. I'm still enjoying Memrise, although
I liked the first course that I did a bit better than the one that I'm doing now. Jan 24: 8 minutes in 1 session Jan 24: 11 minutes in 3 sessions Jan 25: 4 minutes in 1 session Jan 26: nothing Jan 27: nothing Jan 28: 13 minutes in 2 sessions Jan 29: 9 minutes in 2 sessions 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3925 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 22 of 117 24 February 2014 at 2:36am | IP Logged | ||
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With my departure date for Spain less than three weeks away, I think I'm going to put Tagalog away for now. I'll
pick it up again when I get home from the Camino de Santiago. Until then, I'm going to focus on getting my stuff organized, taking long walks, spending time with my family, and using my Spanish. See you in May! (six week challenge, here I come!) February Memrise stats: Jan 30: 9 minutes in 2 sessions Jan 31: 10 minutes in 2 sessions Feb 1: 8 minutes in 1 session Feb 2: 8 minutes in 1 session Feb 3: 8 minutes in 1 session Feb 4: nothing Feb 5: nothing Feb 6: nothing Feb 7: 21 minutes in 1 session Feb 8: 8 minutes in 2 sessions Feb 9: 9 minutes in 2 sessions Feb 10: 6 minutes in 1 session Feb 11: nothing Feb 12: 8 minutes in 1 session Feb 13: nothing Feb 14: nothing Feb 15: 14 minutes in 1 session Feb 16: 15 minutes in 2 session Feb 17: decided to put Tagalog away for now Whether or not I'll continue with Memrise in May remains to be seen. Edited by Stelle on 24 February 2014 at 2:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3925 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 23 of 117 02 May 2014 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
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It's May 1st! Day one of the six-week challenge, and day one of my focus on Tagalog!
I spent 30 minutes today, working with the "Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo" textbook. I read the pronunciation guide (boring, to be honest), and then repeated the first vocabulary set - greetings, of course - several times. I read through 2 short dialogues several times with my husband. It's so nice to have a native speaker sitting right next to me to correct my intonation! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3925 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 24 of 117 02 May 2014 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I worked for 34 minutes. I wrote a simple dialogue, listened and repeated to the basic greetings audio
track, practiced the dialogues in the introductory chapter of Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo, and started my Tagalog anki deck. So far I'm impressed with the setup of the book, but I do think that it would be much harder without access to a native speaker. I sent introductory notes to 4 or 5 Tagalog teachers on italki. I think that I'd like to find two tutors who I feel comfortable with (and who are comfortable with me dictating what I want to do during my sessions), and work with each of them once a week for 30 minutes. To start, I plan on reading dialogues with them and doing very simple role-plays. I need to pay someone for this, because I'm obviously nowhere near ready for a conversation exchange. I need someone very patient who won't get bored if we repeat the same simple dialogues 10 times in a row (or who will pretend not to be bored because I'm paying her. Ha!). Then a few weeks from now, I'd like to start working on "islands" and building my ability to talk about simple subjects. I'm not going to go back to Memrise. While I enjoyed playing with it, I'm not crazy about having to type every word, and being penalized for small errors. Instead, I'm going to use anki for spaced repetition. I plan on inputting the vocab words as I work my way through Tara, Mag-Tagalog Tayo (English to Tagalog) and also building a picture-based deck for basic nouns and verbs. As it stands, my only resource is the basic Tagalog textbook. I can't see myself spending more than 30 minutes on that every day. I really need to find some more resources for basic Tagalog so that I can really commit to the 6 week challenge and advance more quickly, but resources are much harder to find in Tagalog than in Spanish! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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