Teach yourself Tagalog

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

• Introduction p. 1
• Pronunciation guide p. 2
• 1 Sa paliparan / At the airport p. 5
• Introducing yourself and addressing others
• Greeting people at different times of the day
• Saying hello and goodbye
• Language skills: Si, sina
• Simple sentence construction
• Formal or informal? Ka, kayo You
• 2 Anong oras ang almusal / What time is breakfast? p. 17
• Checking in to your hotel
• Language skills: Verb 'to be'
• Enquiring about meals
• Language skills: May, mayroon Has/have, there is/are
• Wala None (no)
• Question words: Sino? ano? Who? What?
• 3 Para sa inyo ang regalong ito / This gift is for you p. 32
• Meeting your friend's family
• Language skills: The indefinite article, a and an
• Ang The definite article, the
• Saying 'thank you'
• Language skills: Hindi No/not
• Wala None
• 4 Nasaan ang post office? / Where's the post office? p. 46
• Asking 'where?'
• Language skills: Nasaan? Where?
• Buying stamps and sending a parcel
• Language skills: Adjectives
• 5 Pera / Money p. 59
• Asking the price of goods
• Language skills: Isa, dalawa, tatlo, etc. One, two, three, etc. Counting money
• Anong oras na? Telling the time
• Magkano, magkakano How much, how much each?
• Haggling
• Changing currency and travellers' cheques at the bank
• 6 Saan ka nakatira? / Where do you live? p. 76
• Using the question word saan
• Language skills: Saan? Where?
• Finding an address on a map
• Language skills: Masyado So, very, quite, too, etc. Find the right Jeepney/bus
• 7 Ang pamilya ko / My family p. 89
• Introducing the members of your family
• Language skills: Ko, mo, niya, namin, natin, ninyo, nila
• Possessive pronouns: Ng Of/of the
• Ni/nina + name of person/s
• Using 'ay' in a sentence
• Language skills: Ay
• 8 Sa restawran / At the restaurant p. 104
• Ordering your drinks
• Language skills: Mga Making words plural
• Choosing some typical Filipino food
• Language skills: Other uses of mga
• Asking for the bill
• Language skills: Ito, iyan, iyon This, that, that (over there)
• Mga + ito, iyan, iyon
• 9 Sa botika / At the pharmacy p. 119
• Asking for medication
• Language skills: Para sa For
• Para kanino For whom
• Para saan for what
• Consulting a doctor
• Naming the parts of the body
• 10 Tulong? / (Need) Help? p. 132
• Asking for help
• Language skills: Sa akin, sa iyo, sa kaniya Mine, yours, his/hers
• Mga kulay Colours
• Shopping for a gift
• Language skills: Kanino Whose
• Sa To/to the, in/in the, on/on the, at/at the
• 11 Gusto kong magpagupit / I want a haircut p. 148
• Making an appointment
• Language skills: Pseudo-verbs
• Describing what you want done
• Language skills: More about pseudo-verbs
• Language skills: More on the sa preposition
• 12 Bagay ba sa akin? / Does this suit me? p. 163
• Trying something on in a store
• Language skills: Verbs: Active voice/passive voice
• Transitive/intransitive
• The um verb
• Asking about alterations
• Language skills: Verbalisation of adjectives
• Describing the weather
• Language skills: Verbalisation of acts of nature
• 13 Sa istasyon ng bus / At the bus station p. 181
• Asking about tickets, destinations and departures
• Days, months and years
• Language skills: Mag verbs
• Enquiring about arrivals
• Language skills: Ma verbs
• Finding out what your journey will be like
• Language skills: Maka + um verb stem To be able to, to happen to, to come to, to manage to
• Makapag + mag verbs To be able to, to happen to, to come to, to manage to
• 14 Sa tabing-dagat / At the beach p. 201
• Hiring a boat
• Language skills: Mang verbs
• Particles
• Going swimming
• Language skills: Makapang To be able to
• 15 Sa simbahan / At church p. 218
• Becoming a godparent
• Language skills: In Passive verbs
• Attending a baptism
• Language skills: Changing the tense of in verbs
• More on particles
• 16 Maari bang gawin mo ito? / Could I ask a favour of you? p. 235
• Making requests and suggestions
• Language skills: Passive 'i' verbs
• May + verb
• Walang + verb
• Requests, commands and suggestions
• 17 Isang kasalan / A wedding p. 250
• Understanding Filipino customs and traditions: a wedding
• Language skills: Passive an verbs
• Expressing the circumstantial in passive verbs
• Talking about customs
• Language skills: Sarili ko/aking sarili etc
• Reflexive
• Mismo intensive
• 18 Sa isang pistang bayan / At a town fiesta p. 268
• Celebrating a Filipino fiesta
• Language skills: Pag + verb root
• Nominalised verbs - the gerund
• Ka + verb root + an, ang + verb
• Other nominalisations
• Language skills: Maki, makipag, makipang
• Participational verb forms in active verbs
• Handling a water buffalo!
• Language skills: Ganito Like this
• Ganiyan Like that
• Ganoon Like that (over there)
• 19 Ang buhay sa baryo / Life in the barrio p. 287
• Living in the barrio
• Language skills: Magpa + active verb To cause, to let, to have, to permit, to ask, to make
• Helping on the farm
• Language skills: Pa-in (ma/um verb roots), papag-in (mag verb roots), papang-in (mang verb roots)
• Language skills: Ipa (in and i verbs), pa-an (an verbs) To cause, to let, to make, to allow, to have, to permit
• 20 Paalam / Goodbye p. 304
• Expressing embarrassment
• Language skills: Kasing/sing As... as
• Doing last-minute shopping
• Language skills: Making nouns with pang
• Saying your last goodbyes
• Language skills: Mas, lalong, kaysa sa
• Key to the exercises p. 323
• Verb list p. 334
• Tagalog-English glossary p. 345
• English-Tagalog glossary p. 356