Basic Tagalog for Foreigners and Non-Tagalogs (Tuttle Language Library)

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Summary: Excellent learning tool. Pangit says it is cool.
Review: As a foreigner to the Philippines who had to learn Tagalog as a second language, this book helped me the most. The lessons are simple, clear, and easy to apply in your everyday conversations. Make this the first book you buy, and it may be the last.

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Summary: A very effective tool for learning to SPEAK Tagalog.
Review: As a foreigner to the Philippines who had to learn Tagalog as a second language, this book helped me the most. The lessons are simple, clear, and easy to apply in your everyday conversations. Make this the first book you buy, and it may be the last.

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Summary: Mabuhay !
Review: I bought an edition of this book in 1993 after my first two visits to the Philippines.I picked it up almost every day,which is an unusual thing for me to do with a book,however because of the teachings and systematic way the book is set out it made for very enjoyable learning. Even more enjoyable than learning from the book,is getting to put what I have learned into practise during subsequent visits to the Philippines.The filipino people are quick to encourage someone who they can see has put in an effort to learn their language.This book makes that effort worthwhile !

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Summary: Good book but dated.
Review: I bought this book to learn tagolog to meet phillipino girls. I know alot of them and to score cool points I thought I would learn the launguage. Well it turns out alot of the translations are no longer used since this book was first published in 1956. Its still a good book for someone who spoke English all their life.

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Summary: Excellent learning tool. Pangit says it is cool.
Review: If you buy one Tagolog book - buy this one. This is the most complete Tagalog book, especially if you want to learn the language enough to be understood.

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Summary: Ang galing ang libro na ito!
Review: If you ever want to learn Tagalog, then this book is probably the one you should be learning from. I'm a native Tagalog speaker myself, but I have used this book to brush up on my grammar. This book is pretty much straightforward and easy to understand. I'd recommend this book to anyone who's considering learning Tagalog.

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Summary: Overall, a pretty shoddy job
Review: Thanks to this book, I'm now reasonably literate in a second language. I was stationed in the Philippines while in the U.S. Navy, and wish I'd had this book then. This book provides a nice working vocabulary, pronunciation guide, and basic grammar. This is THE book to have to start learning Tagalog.

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Summary: Basic Tagalog
Review: This is strictly a reference text or something to be used by teachers in combination with other material. On no account use this as a self tuition text. But if you've got a good grounding in grammar and a good basic vocabulary there's no better place that I know of to go back and revise those pesky verbs. They're all there. And when you finally know enough, you can agree with your Filipino friends that some of the Tagalog in the texts is pretty strange. But good basic stuff nonrtheless.

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Summary: All That, and a bag of chips!
Review: Well, I have family who speaks tagalog, and they wont teach me a thing, so I took it upon myself to learn the native language of my loved one, and now she is able to speak to me in simple phrases and I understand. I even know when her and her friends talk about me! This book is great to learn simple phrases and to expand your vocabulary of tagalog if you are also exposed to it often. Its just a great book!

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Summary: All That, and a bag of chips!
Review: Well, I have family who speaks tagalog, and they wont teach me a thing, so I took it upon myself to learn the native language of my loved one, and now she is able to speak to me in simple phrases and I understand. I even know when her and her friends talk about me! This book is great to learn simple phrases and to expand your vocabulary of tagalog if you are also exposed to it often. Its just a great book!