Book Description
Written for the non-native Filipino (Tagalog) reader who wants to learn the language to communicate with Filipino family and friends. Emphasis on conversation. First fifteen lessons provide a tutorial introduction to the language; last fifteen lessons engage reader in complete conversations. Tutorial has two concurrent threads: 1) structure of the language and 2) vocabulary for and conversations about events in a typical work or school day. Regular use of accompanying CD a must for success. At end of book, student can expect to have vocabulary of 250 top Filipino words and speak at intermediate level. Book made lively by more than 100 line drawings, comic strips and photographs.
Customer Reviews:
great method.......2007-10-17
great method to learn tagalog. you learn really what's useful to interact with filipino. really pleasant book and CDs to use.
Excited to get finished.......2007-10-03
I purchased this book and audio set a few months ago. I was soo excited to get it. So far I am half way through. Its very helpful to have someone who speaks to Tagalog to help you along the way.
Only complaint is: on the audio the speaker says the sentences too fast and you don't get enough time to repeat it out loud. It helped that I loaded the audio cd in my iPod. So I can pause whenever I need to and easily go back.
Overall, I am very happy with this purchase!!!
A very good Filipino language book.......2007-03-20
I think this book is probably the best Filipino language book I've come across. I'm a native Filipino speaker and bought this for somebody else, who I'm helping to learn the language. I've seen so many other Filipino books, but they were almost always not so comprehensive and not well-structured. This book, however, is easy to follow and understand. There are tiny mistakes though (usually, typographical errors)... that could easily be rectified by somebody acting as a tutor. The author(s) also cleverly incorporated the older style of writing in Filipino -- with the accented words, which is very useful for a first-time learner to get a grip on the pronunciation, without constantly being supervised. DON'T LOOK FOR OTHER BOOKS, BUY THIS ONE!
EXCELLENT LEARNING TOOL.......2007-01-09
Pros - This book is an excellent learning tool, it will have you understanding from the first chapter.
Cons - Some of the chapters do vault ahead quickly, introducing new material quite fast.
Overall, I am very satisfied.
if I only had more time!.......2007-01-04
For a language program, this one is pretty good. I am more of a hands-on person, so I like sitting down with the book in hand and listening to the audio. Unlike other programs, this one explains grammar more thoroughly and uses native speakers. I hope they come out with a second program soon!
Book Description
In the age-old tradition of teaching language through rhyme and verse, My First Book of Tagalog Words introduces Philippine language and culture to preschool children in a playful and non-intimidating way. The ABC structure provides a familiar framework that encourages fun and easy learning. Its bold and bright illustrations aim to make children laugh and enjoy the learning process.
Customer Reviews:
Its just OK........2007-10-04
Its ok, but not great. My son and I love the graphics and colors, but the text is lacking. The author writes a disclaimer in the beginning that she added non-traditional letters like C, X, and Z etc. (due to the Spanish and American influences on the country), but what disappointed me was that the traditional sound "Ng" from the real Tagalog alphabet was missing. So many Tagalog words start with "Ng", so she shouldnt have left this out. Otherwise, its ok.
children's book of tagalog words.......2007-09-02
simple reading book that goes through the alaphabet with tagalog words.
my husband who is filipino enjoyed the book and looks forward to reading it to our son.
Fun to read!.......2007-07-11
I bought this book for my two children. My son who is 2 and my daughter who is 7 months. I am half Filipino but can not speak Tagalog fluently. The chosen entries for the book brought back quite a few memories. I hope that with a book like this one and others if I can find them will help the kids become familiar with Tagalog. So far, they seem to enjoy it. My son loves the bright illustrations. I like the simplicity. I just wish I could find another version for American born Tagalog speakers.
My First Book of Tagalog Words.......2007-06-20
I'm disappointed with this book. I was expecting more words in tagalog but there are only 26 words - one for each letter of the alphabet. The last letter of the alphabet Z is for zipper which is the same as English.
My First Book of Tagalog Words:Filipino Rhymes and Verses.......2007-05-21
Good for kids who are starting to learn few words of Tagalog. I just thought all the words in Rhymes are all written in Tagalog and an
explaination in the bottom, but over all it is good for kids who don't have Tagalog background.
Book Description
A comprehensive, one-year introductory textbook for Tagalog, the language spoken in the Philippines.
Customer Reviews:
BEGINNING TAGLOG: A Course for Speaker of English.......2007-08-17
This book is a disappointment to me. The book assmes a classroom situation. It assumes a teacher, tapes, and a laboratory. I have none of the above. There are no instructions at the beginning of a Unit. I would advise against buying this book unless you are enrolled in a Tagalog class.
Great for begginers.......2007-07-26
This Tagalog textbook is great for beginners and is so easy to understand that it can be used to teach yourself the language. It is very straight forward and gives the reader the information that they need to be able to succeed in becoming efficient in Tagalog.
Aged but Experienced.......2007-02-24
The book, as some would point out, has been published over two decades ago. However, apart from being culturally outdated, I would definitely applaud in its efficiency. Basic grammar, vocabulary and common phrases were tackled so well that I sadly learned that I would no longer talk behind my husband's back in Tagalog. :p (He is, though, very interested in language, so persistence played a huge part)
Bottom line: The book offers great instruction; it presents a good structure of the language and is something I would definitely recommend, if the person learning does not mind the age of the publication date.
Don't lose the drawings!.......2006-09-16
I am very glad this is back in print, as an old dusty copy (sans the original reel-to-reel tapes) in my university library gave me good foundation in Tagalog. Personally, I love the drawings! So what if they are from the 1960's; the inspired me to learn Tagalog just as my old Hayden books inspired me to learn electronics: retro drawings are cool!
If this is an exact reproduction of the original, it is helpful for teachers of Tagalog, as well as students. It makes it clear how to construct the different aspects (nominative, benefactive, locative, imperative, etc.) and actually names them in such a way that makes more sense than more recent books on Tagalog grammar (Aspillera, Ramos, Alejandro, for example).
Today's language teachers might see the audiolingual apprach as a throwback, but drilling myself before spending a summer in the Philippines was worthwhile. The notes on stress and pronunciation are accurate, at least to my ears, and the example sentences have lines above them to guide the learner with sentence stress.
I wish this book came with a CD, not an audiocassette, and encourage the publisher to get with the times. Other than that, the price is right for a complete first-year Tagalog learning system!
Don't let appearances put you off!.......2004-07-12
This is an excellent book, despite its unfortunate presentation. It's the only introductory manual I've seen that isn't scared to describe and teach Tagalog grammar and usage without fudging the significant differences between Austronesian and European languages. Other texts do that in a vain attempt to make Tagalog seem "easy" to foreigners, but the end result is that they make it harder than it needs to be, because they present a Europeanised version of the language that leaves learners helpless when confronted with authentic texts and native speakers.
The key to grasping Tagalog is understanding the related concepts of "topic" and "focus", and this course has as its backbone the mastery of those notions. It also avoids the misleading claim that Tagalog has "tenses" and teaches how aspect plus particles does the same job in a different way. Another strong point is its detailed representation of pronunciation and intonation in the dialogues and examples. Stress is crucial in Tagalog for distinguishing between very different meanings of words apparently spelled the same, and solo learners especially need to see the stress patterns of the new words they learn (other manuals tend to mark stresses only in glossaries at the back, but just as students of French need to learn the gender of each and every noun as they first meet it, so learners of Tagalog need to see and learn up front the correct stress of every new piece of vocabulary).
The only criticism I have of the core content is that it doesn't teach the techniques of root derivation which all learners need to acquire if they are to venture beyond the textbook itself (e.g. by dipping into the Tagalog resources available on the Internet). The majority of Tagalog words encountered "in the wild" are not to be found in their apparent alphabetical place in dictionaries. To look them up you need to know how to spot the root of the word, under which the dictionaries list it. If this issue had been tackled, then this book, used in conjunction with Fr Leo English's superb Tagalog-English Dictionary (sadly not sold outside the Philippines) and the Revised Edition of Carl Rubino's bilingual dictionary (much more restricted in scope than Fr. English's, but good for current colloquial usages) would really be all the serious learner needed to get a good grounding in the language.
Given its fine qualities, it's a pity the book looks so awful. Large areas are taken up with poor-quality artwork with very dated images, and the real meat of the linguistic commentaries and cultural notes is mingled, without adequate typographical distinction, with often unnecessary full expansions of all the possible responses in the various drills suggested for class use. Given that the original work was always designed to be in two volumes, it would have been preferable to put these drills in vol 2 and incorporate the readings which make up Vol 2 (alas long since out of print) into Vol 1. Or at least the drills could have been moved to an appendix in Volume 1 so as not to swamp the exposition of key points.
But despite the poor design and layout, the editing has clearly been meticulous. Typos and misprints can be disastrous when introducing a language to learners who are in no position to spot them, and they are pretty frequent on some of the other Tagalog primers on the market. But in this book I have yet to discover a single misprint, or indeed any error of any description.
It would be great if this book could be given a thorough design makeover (including making the readings available in print once more) while retaining those high editorial standards. But even in its present unappealing guise, it's the best there is, by a long way.
Book Description
Thriller in Manila? Teach yourself Tagalog!
With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow any of the
Teach Yourself Language Courses Audiopackages at your own pace or use them as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Audiopackages include an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
- Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar
- Regular and irregular verb tables
- Plenty of practice exercises and answers
- Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary
- Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
- An exploration of the culture
- And much more
Customer Reviews:
Not for the Nervous?.......2007-01-18
The title of this book is too short to be true to its contents and approach. It should be called "Teach yourself Tagalog, with a lot of help from your Filipino friends and a bottle of tranquilizers".
To be fair, a lot of hard and productive thinking has plainly gone into the design of this course. The underlying learning objectives for each of the twenty units are sensibly chosen, and the progression from unit to unit is intelligently planned and well paced. The dialogues generally are excellent examples of how to make introductory material understandable to beginners while not compromising too much on truthfulness to the living language, and there is a good mixture of strictly language-focussed learning with bite-sized but nevertheless generally informative cultural snippets.
One pervasive problem, though, is that syllable stresses are never marked in the printed texts. This is a serious drawback for the solo learner. Although real-life Tagalog texts, apart from examples in dictionaries and grammars, do not mark stresses (or final glottal stops), such markings are essential in primers meant for self-instruction, because Tagalog has many forms whose meaning is drastically changed by different stresses or the presence or absence of a final glottal stop. Unless these things are plainly indicated on the printed page, the learner is all too liable get into the habit of pronouncing such words wrongly, with maybe unfortunate results.
The accompanying CDs are not likely to be of much help. It's surprising how many publishers of language teaching materials (the BBC being a notable exception) don't realise that speaking such dialogues convincingly requires professional voice-acting skills, which are sadly lacking to the speakers used here. They are obviously natives, but that's not enough.
An even more serious problem with this volume, however, is its disconcertingly neurotic and unfocussed approach to grammatical explanation. A good language teacher knows how to build the learner's confidence by revealing and explaining the more difficult aspects of the target language in a controlled and progressive way. But this is not the same as making repeated pre-emptive strikes against anticipated panic attacks, especially if the alleged grounds for panic often seem slender anyway. This little volume is dominated by the assumption that the would-be learner of Tagalog is of a highly nervous disposition and is likely to flee in terror and never come back if such shocking terms as "verb" or "consonant" are mentioned without the accompaniment of soothing noises and profuse apologies for touching on unpleasant topics.
Now it's rather hard to write any effective language course, let alone one for a language as distant from European structures as Tagalog, while shielding the reader entirely from grammatical considerations (and therefore also grammatical terms of one sort or another); but at points when that necessity can't be avoided, the reader of this book is invariably reassured that there is "no need to panic" or be "bewildered", or they are urged to "try not to worry about" the point of grammar in question. The use of "try" here subliminally suggests that there are indeed grounds for anxiety, even though this particular phrase is used, for example, to soften the apparently crushing news that the plural form of a certain pronoun differs from the singular. But the reassurances are seldom followed by satisfactory explanations of the supposedly "frightening" items; instead, the recommended course is frequently to "ask your Filipino friends". Which for some learners a long way from the Philippines or from, say, a major healthcare centre, might well be something of a problem
In general, the grammatical explanations tend to make much ado about "explaining" things that will be perfectly plain to most people interested in learning a language anyway, or else they treat side issues at some length, while overlooking things the learner is more likely to find troublesome. For instance, in the first lesson, after a table of the main personal pronouns, we read the following "explanation":
Notice that "you" (singular) has two forms: ka and ikaw. The simple difference is that ka is always used as part of a sentence ... whereas ikaw can stand alone (without being used in a sentence).
Now that's true, but it's hardly what a learner most needs to know. Since, as this explanation correctly implies, both 'ikaw' and 'ka' can indeed "be used in a sentence", what the learner really wants to be told is which one of them to use in a given sentence (they are never interchangeable, and in some circumstances neither is used). On this matter, the authors are silent.
In lesson 2 we are introduced to the words "sino?" and "ano?". "Sino?", we are correctly told, means "who?" and is used to ask about persons, whereas "ano?" means "what?" and is used to ask about things. Since this is one of the rare occasions where there is a close match between English and Tagalog, that much should be plain sailing. But our ever-anxious guides feel it's necessary to remark "don't worry if this sounds daunting," which is more likely to give readers a disturbing sense that they must have somehow skipped a daunting bit without noticing it.
Yet in the very next lesson the authors broach a genuinely difficult point with no such show of concern, via a casual aside. After outlining the distinction between two Tagalog words for different types of negation, 'hindi' and 'wala', they continue, as though they were adding something perfectly obvious: "unlike 'hindi', 'wala' is followed by a ligatured pronoun". Now this really should be something to be worried about, because you will search in vain in earlier pages for any mention of a "ligatured pronoun", and such items are not likely to be in any learner's grammatical carry-on luggage. Our unfortunate learner is suddenly deprived of the assurances doled out so extensively and unnecessarily elsewhere, and left to work out the meaning from a couple of uncommented examples, before being puzzled still further by being told that "when followed by a noun, 'wala' takes a ligature". These two statements are more or less correct, though not particularly well expressed. But they presuppose that readers know what a ligature is in Tagalog (and other Philippine languages) and what "taking" one involves, and yet they are offered no explanation of the matter and are denied even the usual claim that they "need not worry", or can turn to those long-suffering "Filipino friends" for enlightenment.
The book's most serious shortcomings in grammatical explanation, however, concern what many believe to be the key to mastery of Tagalog: the verb system with its multiple voices (or, in an alternative terminology, "focus"). The authors' approach here is to pick on things that can be made to look, at a pinch, a little like the verb system of European languages and keep quiet about the rest. Many of the issues they leave untouched are, inevitably, exemplified in the dialogues, but they are left either completely unmentioned, or kept gingerly at bay via yet more referrals to those helpful friends.
Overall, for people who are lucky enough to have native-speaker friends or family, and want to have a go at understanding what they say in Tagalog and take a stab at talking back, without any particular ambition to get beyond basic oral communication, this volume is good enough. It could also provide a serviceable text book for, say, an adult evening class taken by a teacher who could substitute his or her own grammatical explanations for those in the text while drawing on the strengths of the general structure and dialogues. But for solo learners who do not have ready access to a patient native speaker or who want to go beyond everyday gist comprehension and formulaic utterances, this book might just do more harm than good, because it merely toys with the real areas of difficulty and manages to obfuscate rather than clarify them in the mind of any reader with an ambition to get beyond the basics.
There is, of course, nothing wrong with elementary language courses. But, like elementary schools, what they teach and how they teach it shouldn't hamper the progress of those who want to go on to more demanding levels. Sadly, anyone who got to the end of this course then wanted take their knowledge of this fascinating language still further might well find they needed to forget most of the grammatical explanations offered them here and start all over again. The Teach Yourself series contains a splendid counter-example of how to get beginners confidently started on a difficult language and at the same time equip them for much more advanced studies if they so choose, in the form of Teach Yourself Korean, by Mark Vincent and Yeon Jaehoon. But that's another language, and maybe, one day, another review.
Good Start.......2007-01-16
This is a really great book and it has a good basis for what a new learner of the language would need, especially someone who is planning on traveling to the Philippines. The only thing that I have a hard time with is how fast they speak on the CDs, but that does make it more like it would be like in a real life situation.
Good Introductory Book.......2006-08-11
Quite a good book to get you started learning your new language! The CDs are very helpful and really give you the edge to learning pronunciation. The only drawback to this book is that it is hard to know the pronunciation for the words not spoken on the CDs.
However, the explanations on the uses of the words and topics are quite helpful and easy to understand. Also there are some good explanations of Tagalog expressions, as well as some explanations of the Pilipino culture.
If you want lots of exercises you might want to get another book in adition to this one. However, they CDs make this book a very good tool in learning the language.
I recommend buying the Hippocrene Standard Dictionary Tagalog-English/English-Tagalog by Carl R. Galves Rubino
Buy just the book, opt out of the cd.......2005-12-21
I think the book is available by itself. Buy just that. I am a native speaker and I bought this for a friend who wanted to learn Tagalog. I then listened to the CD and was appalled, APPALLED, at the butchery. The accents on the CD are ATROCIOUS and you would get laughed off the sidewalks of Manila if you spoke like the people on this CD; the women are shrill and campy and the men speak in an unnatural monotone. Buy the book, which in itself is a good introduction, but find a conversation partner to read the text to you.
Book Description
Comprehensive Tagalog I includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus an introduction to reading.
Upon completion of this
Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to:
* initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations,
* deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family,
* communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations,
* avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements,
* satisfy personal needs and limited social demands,
* establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries,
* begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.
Book Description
Tagalog, the language of the Philippines, is spoken by millions of people. Learn how to communicate with them in fifty carefully planned, eminently practical lessons in this self-study guide. Basic Tagalog intends to teach Tagalog to English speakers with a minimum of time and effort. It includes a structured introduction of eight hundred words of vocabulary, sufficient to cover daily needs; common idioms; and offers hints and study methods suggested by previous students of this method. After a small investment of time, you'll find yourself prepared for everyday situations and have a glimpse of the lives and culture of Filipinos around the world.
Customer Reviews:
Pusong pinoy ako!.......2006-09-16
For the low price, this book is worthwhile even for beginners. however, the beginner should use this as a reference and jump into it once some foundations are grasped. And do the written exercises!
The ideal beginning book for me, "Beginning Tagalog; a course for speakers of English", is an audiolingual textbook from 1965 that I just happened to find gathering dust in my university library (no luck finding the original reel-to-reel tapes!). I wish I had Aspillera's book as a reference when I plowed through this textbook, as all the tourist phrasebooks are useless.
Though I had read "Basic Tagalog" cover-to-cover earlier this year, I put it in my backpack this summer, so that I could do some of the written exercises while living in the RP. I strongly recommend doing this, as it helps reinforce grammar. Also, speak out loud to yourself, and your understanding will also grow exponentially.
BTW, I met one westerner in Taiwan who learned Tagalog from the Aspillera book, and raved about it. Since he was quite fluent, I took this as evidence that language learning is what you make of it. Don't blame the books, just be thankful they are out there!
The subtitle of this book is "for Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs"; at the end of the summer my Visayan wife took this book home to Mindanao. She told me that the design of the book really is helpful to Pilipinos whose mothertongue is not Pilipino, despite the language training they get in school.
In sum, this book is very valuable for the serious learner of Tagalog, the basis of the official Pilipino language. Save your money by buying this instead of any of the tourist phrasebooks that might tempt you. Mabuhay!
Basic Tagalog for Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs (Tuttle Language Library).......2006-04-21
This book is basically in the middle. If your first starting depending on your intelligence level and prior knowledge of the language you may be able to SLOWLY progress through the book. This book is somewhat useful, although it's mostly not because there are no explanations for alot of the exercises and even for some lessons, of course that can change depending on how much Tagalog you already know. I reccommend it for accustomed begginers. For complete begginers and those not able to grasp on quickly pick a more guided-learner book.
In all the books 800 words are useful and the extra grammar knowledge possesed is good, but the lack of explanations, briskness through the lessons, the incomplete glossary, increased grammar terminology, grammatical errors within the book itself, and leaving the reader to rely on himself is what makes this book bot reccommended for a complete begginner. Although, once you understand the basics get this book, definitely. There are too few Tagalog books available and some things in this book like "Verbal Roots" are not even mentionedd in another books I have bought
Not a good book for Beginners .......2006-02-25
When I first got the book I thought it was basic Tagalog, but it wasn't. This book is for people that know some Tagalog. It was very hard to use for learning the language. Not a good book for beginners.
A decent book.......2006-01-11
Basic Tagalog for Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs By: Paraluman S. Aspillera
Tuttle Publishing, 1993, 235 pages
Reference Book
This book is a basic introduction to Tagalog, which is the national language of the Philippines. It includes the basic from introducing yourself to excusing yourself from a conversation. It teaches the language in 50 short lessons and has a short Tagalog-English and English-Tagalog dictionary in the back.
This book contains the basics needed for an everyday conversation in Tagalog. It helps if a person understands a language close to Tagalog to learn it easier, like Spanish for instance.
Basic Tagalog says in the foreword that this book is set up to help a person learn the language faster, by setting it in a more practical, rather than a strict grammatical order. Each lesson is a foundational base for each of the lessons following the first.
The Basic Tagalog book has a vocabulary of about 800 words, enough words to speak, write, understand and be understood. This is a very effective book, and a tutor has told me what a great increase I have had in pronunciation and what little I actually know. I would recommend this book to anyone trying to learn Tagalog.
NAGSISISI AKO!.......2006-01-08
WOW!I got this book back in 2003 and I dont recommend this book for begginers its very complex to understand I would rather get Beginning Tagalog: A Course for Speakers of English
by J. D. Bowen
Customer Reviews:
Very helpful.......2007-10-07
For someone learning Tagalog this is a pretty comprehensive dictionary. It's easy to use and not too bulky. I highly recommend this dictionary.
Good... but a little vague on certain definitions.......2007-09-17
My fiancee is Filipina and I have been learning Tagalog. She always gets a good laugh whenever I try to formulate a sentence by looking up words (I'll always end up putting something in the wrong order or using some word that isn't exactly appropriate for the context). This dictionary has been very helpful in learning new words. Occasionally, however, there will be a definition that needs a little more than what is given. The best example I can think of is the word "syota". The dictionary defines it as "boyfriend / girlfriend". When I lovingly referred to my fiancee one day as "aking magandang syota" ("my beautiful girlfriend"), she asked me what I meant by the word "syota". When I explained, she told me that "syota" is a colloquial term that derives from the word for "short" and typically means a short-term boyfriend / girlfriend.
Overall, this is a very good dictionary with a lot of great information. It won't teach you everything, but you will typically learn the most of a language by practice and studying. This is a very handy reference supplement.
easy to carry with you.......2007-06-08
I like to carry this dictionary with me while learning and speaking Tagalog. It is comprehensive enough that every word I've searched for has been in it.
A good product.......2007-01-16
This is a really good dictionary to use while learning the Tagalog language. My only word of advise it to have someone who knows the language who can help you on what words to use. The dictionary covers many dialects and also covers words that are everywhere from very formal to very crude.
A Must Have For Anybody Interested In Tagalog.......2006-08-14
To start off with I love this dictonary. I have used this book for over 4 years now. I used when I lived in the philippines for 2 years and had to learn tagalog. I've been home now for 2 years and still use it all the time. It has almost any word you will ever come across and then some. It gives a list on Tagalog Orthography, affixes, infixes, suffixes, prefixes and others. It has a basic grammer chart and explanation. My experiance learning tagalog would have been much harder with out this must have dictonary.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent Phrase book.......2007-01-09
This is an excellent phrase book to use for travelers and anyone interested in learning this interesting language. It has very good phonetic spellings and easy-to-read layouts of pages.
I highly recommend this book as a must-have companion to additional study materials.
Bad product.......2006-03-27
I have found many mispellings and grammatical errors in both english and tagalog in this book. It is inaccurate and inadequate. I would strongly recommend the hippocrene standard dictionary: tagalog-english over this book. I do not recommend this book to anyone.
Suits its purpose.......2004-11-01
This is more like a handbook of useful phrases. For a beginner this is a great start. It by no means will teach you tagalog but you will be able to understand and use common speech. Good entry level book.
Good phrase book........2004-02-17
I thought this book was great for simple phrases, easy to follow, very easy and helpful to use. Great first step in to learning Tagalog basics.
a very polite way to communicate.......2003-10-30
its an easy book to read and understand.
the language used is very polite. you might want to drop all the -PO's when talking to peers or children.
it has a nice brief history of the islands.
I read through the whole book in one setting. its easy to go back and find phrases and words when needed.
Customer Reviews:
Most comprehensive Tagalog-English Dictionary.......2006-02-26
Most Tagalog-English/English-Tagalog dictionaries in the market comprise of only a few hundred pages. This dictionary has over a thousand pages - it is thus far the most comprehensive!
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