Basic Tagalog: Learn to Speak Modern Filipino/ Tagalog - The National Language of the Philippines: Revised Third Edition (with Online Audio)

The lessons are laid out in a step by step format from simple to complex.

I enjoy the FREE audio portion. Spending a lot of time in the Philippines; this book is very useful

Well, I tried one of those 15 minutes a day online courses driving to work. Was not getting enough learning, fast enough. This book has a forward that will pull you into learning the language by providing context about history, culture, religion, and current usage. Still learning, feel better about it. Want to surprise my Filipina wife for our 10th wedding anniversary by being fluent and not stumbling through the few words I know now.

The book must be composed of screenshots of the book, because the print on my Kindle device made it way too small to read. There was no way to adjust the font size, so it would also be very difficult to read on a phone. I am using my iPad Pro to read it instead.

If you truly dedicate the time to studying, this book is a wonderful resource. Some of the concepts could use further clarification however it's unreasonable to expect a single resource to be a one-stop-shop when learning a new language. I highly recommend!

I've only looked at a few grammar books for Tagalog, but this is by far the best I've come across. I use this book with Rosetta Stone software and it has worked well for me. When I want to understand why something is a certain way in the software, I can easily look it up.

Great, it you are really interested in learning to speak Basic Tagalog, this is the book to get you started. Then purchase "Beginning Tagalog" (A Course for Speakers of English) to further hone your skills.

I originally bought this book for some self-paced learning, but found it a little hard to follow at first. Along the way there are exercises (like little quizzes, or homework) but alas there's no "answer key" so you can't get any feedback as to how well you did.I wound up signing up for an online Tagalog class, and they used this book as the textbook (so it was great, I already had it!) but we sped through the chapters pretty quickly.Thinking about finding another book, to go along with my apps and podcasts...

I purchased this for her as it is one of her resolutions this year. The content is easy to follow and good depth and breadth of information. Good price for what you get. Salamat (that's Thank You in Tagalog!)

First, the positives: this book has a lot of content and it is definitely able to teach you a lot. As far as I've seen everything in regards to content is correct aside from a few typos.Now, the negatives. The dialogues opening each session sometimes have words that aren't in the "vocabulary list" right below them, and haven't appeared in previous lessons. Sometimes they're not even in the small dictionary in the back. Nevertheless, they are useful and introduce the topic of the chapter. The "manga" drawings are a waste of ink, though: they are very ugly, almost bizarre at times, and sometimes illustrate the dialogue very poorly. They're also not manga at all. Maybe this ink should have been spent instead in marking the stress of words, which is my next negative.Stress in tagalog can't be predicted from the usual spelling, which is why some books -including the previous edition of this book! - add diacritics to help learners understand the right pronunciation. This book even has a chapter on stress which uses said diacritcs, but they're abandoned as soon as lesson 3! What is the point, especially when previous editions had them? This makes it so that if you really want to learn how to pronounce a word, you have to either have a tutor or look on the internet. The way they're used in a few section titles but not the text makes me think this was an error, not a feature, maybe some software error that nobody realized? Still, this makes learning everything much more bothersome.The last negative is the lack of exercises. There are five at most in each section and that is far from enough. Exercises are very important for language learning and I don't think it is fair to burden students with making their own exercises.If you can, buy the second edition, as the second edition is better than the third edition if you're studying by yourself.

Ouvrage soigné et d'un grand intérêt. Il s'agit principalement d'un manuel de grammaire pour débutant, agrémenté de situations de conversations et d'un corpus de vocabulaire indispensable. J'apprécie les supports audio sur le site de l'éditeur.L'ouvrage convient donc très bien en complément d'un cours général de Tagalog.

Delivered on time just as expected.

I am a former language teacher and textbook author. This book is a useful resource for reference as it clearly sets out grammar, unlike more modern textbooks which tend to leave it to the students to work out. As an advanced learner of Tagalog I find it very helpful. It is not a good starting point for someone new to the language, but it will be handy for checking grammar points.