Learning Tagalog

A complete Filipino/Tagalog language course and pocket dictionary in one!

Let Filipino experts Barrios and Camagong teach you how to speak this beautiful language! Learning Tagalog brings the national language and culture of the Philippines to life, providing you with all the basics you need to speak, read and write the language correctly and naturally.

Designed for beginners, this invaluable guide presents a series of progressive lessons with a focus on conversational communication. It includes useful notes on pronunciation and grammar, greetings, sentence structure, verb conjugations, idiomatic expressions and etiquette dos and don'ts. It also includes a comprehensive glossary of useful vocabulary and phrases.

Suitable for beginning learners with no prior Tagalog knowledge, the key features of this book include:

• A focus on the everyday speech style of contemporary Manila
• Manga illustrations with short dialogues and key vocabulary
• Clear explanations of Tagalog verb forms and sentence structure
• Extensive exercises and drills plus native-speaker audio recordings (available for free download online)

This is a complete language learning course for beginners!