I live here in Davao and we widely speak in Cebuano/Bisaya, but we can also understand and speak Tagalog. Is this the same in the Tagalog regions?

I recieved a message in filipino, anyone knows an online free filipino-english/english-filipino translation ?

I am a Filipino and i've been dying to speak tagalog my dad is way too busy and stuff so can you list some ways and help me please!!

pwede bang isalin sa tagalog ang sagot para sa aking report,... THANKSS!

Does anyone know any good websites were i can learn?

Or can anyone teach me?

well since the words in MS word are in english do you know how I can make it to filipino? besides re-writing it in filipino which would take a lot of time.

Its r national language here in the Phillipines

Unega. Pronounced Oo-Neh-Gah. I need a phonetic translation of this as a foreign NAME. Thanks.
Google doesn't work.
The Japanese and Chinese are written in completely different alphabets and would translate into soething completely different.

All the other countries have Yahoo Answers in there native language so why is English used for Yahoo Answers Philippines? Only 40 percent speak basic English while over 90 percent speak Tagalog.
Hey Lezah that's exactly why they should have in Tagalog there is no reason your country cannot teach keyboarding in Tagalog that's cultural genocide.

I'm going to the philippines next year in Dec. I need to become fluent in tagalog by that time. Napaprakits ako na sa chat nalang. Ano pa ang gagawin ako? I want to write and speak tagalog as fluent as I can. Na bibili akong software, rosetta stone. atska bibli kong dictionario. parang bata ako na sulat en tagalog, and to speak it. but im trying to practice. my grammar is not correct, but i want to do it right. Nanood ako TFC para maintindihan ko, lahat. What else. give me ideas!
If anyone wants to help me, I need all the help I can get. Naturo ko.

flipside4real2006@yahoo.com

i know there are lots of filipino english speakers. help me to become fluent.
also, you can send me a YM at
flipside4real2006, so we can chat in tagalog or something, for practice

"Ang pogi mula sa paa hanggang sa ulo lkaw lang ang para sa akin! Wag mo akong ewan hindi ko kayang mag-isa"

i'm getting married soon and i would like to learn a little bit.
is there a link online?

I know that there are many dialects spoken in the Philippines but I was wondering if most the people there speak Tagalog. I would like to know this because I will be living there for the next two years and I would like to know what language to spend most my time studying. I heard that Ilacano is the dialect that most of the people will speak in the area that I will live in on the northern end of Luzon. Is this right? So should I try to study Ilacano as well?

I need at least 10

She's told me its hard for her to speak in "Tugalog" but she can sing in Tagalog fluently......I don't get it? We talk to her in Tagalog, we watch Wowowee and MMK together so she can understand the language. Any tips to get her to start talking to us in "Tugalog"?
franz: she's only 4. at home, english is her primary language; her dad is white. when she goes to her lola's house, tagalog is the spoken language there. there's not a single child in her preschool who could speak tagalog-they're all non-filipinos.
hurjay_3: walang ibang bata sa bahay kundi sya lang. kaya hanggang tv na lang kme. nagustuhan nya yung kokey kahit corny.
joeyboy: you're right!
i love all of your insights! thank you!

As i said, im filipino.. but i cant speak the tagalog language and i would reeeaaally like to learn how. I am hearing all of my family members speak tagalog and i can sort of understand, i know words, but i dont know how to use it in a sentence, and i cant really have a tagalog conversation with someone. What is the best way for me to learn Tagalog online, that is FREE? And i cant get Rosetta Stone.

Please help me out!
Def. Choosing best answer..
Thanks! =D

I'm english speaking, and would like to know the easiest way to learn to talk Philippine Tagalog or even any web sites recomended thanks

I really need to speak the tagalog dialect. Eto ba ang story ko. I was born in the Philippines, nalalis ako when I was 3 years old. So all my life I was raised in Chicago. I returned back to the philippines in October this year, it has been 6 years since my last visit. Now, I want to return back there ksi, maxado magsaya ko. Bumalik ko sa pinas in December, but I want to make sure when I return back. matatas lang ko magtagalog. Sorry, I'm trying hard to correctly write the Tagalog Dialect. I feel embarassed that I have to speak english to everyone, when I am a full blooded filipino. I feel like when I was there, everyone expects me to speak tagalog tagala. Mahirap naman magsilta Eh.. now, I'm napakratis lang ko every day, I watch TFC, I work on Rosetta stone, I read the english tagalog dictonary, and I chat in tagalog with pinoy kabigan. At least I try. Even though my wrting is not good. But I want to know if I keep up what I do, will I be fluent by next year?

If you speak Tagalog will you please please please tansolate " Small Sweet Islands" for me or help me get to a Tagalog Transolator on the internet!!!

Hiya! Okay, imma filipino, born in Australia, and the weird thing is that i can understand tagalog all the time.....but i can't speak it...... well not fluently anyways. =_= Is this normal? Or am i just weird? ;p
I'm trying to learn how to speak tagalog fluently, but i cant get the accent right.... >.< Any advice on how to improve?
Much appreciated ^_^

What is the story's exact conflict? How about its time and setting/place?

i'm taking a filipino beginners class in high school right now and I have to know these words in tagalog and my teacher didn't even tell us how to say them in tagalog so can you please translate these words for me.

Paper clip

book

desk

scissor

light bulb

door

calendar

fire hydrant

eraser

flag

television

pencil sharpener

crayon

globe

clock

I am only half-filipino,born in California and raised in Mississippi..lol.. but that does not mean that I do not want to get in touch with my Filipino side. I speak english, and i took 4 years of Spanish (but forgot all the words... lol). I am going to visit the P.I. for the first time next year, so i want to learn some Tagalog. Not just to learn tagalog for my visit, but i will keep trying to learn it after, too. i am dedicated to become fluent in it.. is there anyway suggestions?
yea, i am going in feb. march. or april.. lol

Could you help me, I honestly dont speak a word and my school is international, but they just don't know how to teach foreigners, it's pretty insane.

And akin magiging kabiyok ng buhay ay isang binatang puti, binatang sibol sa kanluran. Magundat pulot-gata sa bibig ng isang munolong kaibigan.

Im sorry if some of the words are misspelled or so. What the instructions are is that I need to choose any word and find its synonim. So could you please help me out?? Thanks!!

I appreciate it so much.
Ok, im sorry.. I can't quite understand what it says in this paper either.
I dont need the translation, I need the synonim.

how do u say "yes, of course i speak tagalog"

I wanna polish my Filipino grammar and build my Filipino vocabulary (because it's a shame naman that I don't speak my native tongue fluently). i'm fil-chi but I'm more fluent in English >.< I was wondering, what books could help me do that? I was thinking: books by Efren Abueg, Edgardo M. Reyes (those are the authors in my HS third year textbooks)..but I can't find them anymore anywhere!

I tried reading Bob Ong's MACARTHUR but it wasn't my thing...so I guess that rules him out.

Ayaw ko rin ng local/native setting. Those settings really depress me! It's very hard to choose Filipino books...because majority of 'em are set in native provinces... I want to read a Filipino book that I could relate to.

And I also DO NOT like the romance books they sell in National Bookstore! (Yung Filipino version ng Mills and Boon!)

Of course, Eli Fili and Noli are out of the question! (Truth is, masyadong malalim yung Tagalog dun para sa akin)
btw, in case it helps, i'm currently 16.

im filipino (half) and i want to learn to speak tagalog because out of my cuzins, my family (other than my mom) doesnt know how to speak it... and i feel left out...lol

can anyone give me a good website to use? im 12 years old so i kinda need a website thats easy to use and not all complicated and stuff lol...

I visit the country a lot, and wonder if I should invest in the Rosetta Stone software. or is it a waste of time.

Please help me translate into Filipino.

Teacher: so what would you like to learn in Science?
Student: I'd like to learn about astronomy.
Teacher: Ok, first I will explain to you the formation of the planets.
Student: Ok

Teacher: Oh no, we ran out of time.
Student: Time flies so fast
Teacher: Well I'll see you tomorrow and prepare yourself with a few pictures of the planets.
Student: Ok teacher! See you tomorrow.

I'm just gonna guess but is it タガログ?