
Welcome to Tagalog for Beginners! This video will give you a brief background of your instructor and the format of this online course.
Before moving into the words and grammar, it is extremely important to learn some pronunciation tips to keep students from developing bad habits early on. We will be focusing on pronouncing vowels, and we will look at a brief history of the Filipino alphabet.
We will go through an outline of the entire course before getting into the detailed lessons.
Learn how to ask "How are you?" and how to respond to the same question.
Learn how to say time-of-day greetings.
Learn how to ask people's names and how to introduce yourself to others.
Learn how to use politeness words with elders.
Review of what you've learned in this section: greetings, introductions, and politeness.
Practice what you've learned in this section: greetings, introductions, and politeness.
Learn the personal pronouns.
This is a longer warm-up section, thus broken out separately. You will practice personal pronouns and adjectives together.
Learn how to say various nationalities and how to ask and respond to the question "Where are you from?"
Review what you've learned in this section: personal pronouns, adjectives, nationalities, and how to ask and respond to the question, "Where are you from?"
Practice what you've learned in this section: personal pronouns, adjectives, nationalities, and how to ask and respond to the question, "Where are you from?"
Learn how to ask and answer the question, "Do you understand Tagalog?"
Learn how to politely approach somebody to ask a question.
Learn the interrogative pronouns and how to use them.
Review of what you have learned in this section: how to ask and answer the question, "Do you understand Tagalog?", how to be polite when asking a question, and how to use interrogative pronouns.
Practice what you have learned in this section: how to ask and answer the question, "Do you understand Tagalog?", how to be polite when asking a question, and how to use interrogative pronouns.
Learn the words for family members.
Learn the possessive pronouns and how to use them.
Combining personal and possessive pronouns in sentences.
Learn how to describe family and friends using "ang" and "si".
Review of what you have learned in this section: the words for different family members, possessive pronouns, combining personal and possessive pronouns, and how to describe family and friends.
Learn how to say various common foods and how to ask what something is.
Learn how to answer when being offered food.
Learn common expressions related to food,
Learn traditional Filipino dishes.
Review of what you have learned in this section: the words for various food, how to state what food you like, how to describe food, learn common expressions, and learn common dishes.
Practice what you have learned in this section: the words for various food, how to state what food you like, how to describe food, learn common expressions, and learn common dishes.
The goal of this course is to have you speaking functional Tagalog that you can use in your day to day life so that you can enjoy basic conversations with native Filipino speakers.
If you happen to have Filipino family and friends, you will be able to use this as a stepping stool to initiate and participate in conversations with them.
Likewise, even if you do not have a Filipino person to practice with, this course is interactive enough so that you will be able to test your Tagalog skills right away.
Using multiple techniques, including the use of dialogues, imagery, contextual learning, summarization, and practice testing, you will find this course a fun and easy way to learn Tagalog.
I am excited for you to soon be able to listen, read, write, and speak in Tagalog!