How difficult is it to learn Tagalog?
I recently moved from the USA to the Philippines. I am currently 14 years old and attending 2nd year public high school. Though I attend a 1st year Filipino class as well as having a tutor. How long and difficult will it be to learn the language here?
So after I'm done learning Tagalog, how long will it take for me to learn a regional language such as Ilocano (my mom's decent) or Hilagayon (my dad's decent?
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Tagalog is not an easy language to learn. The main difficulties are these:
1) Grammar is very convoluted, some words are long and it has prefixes, suffixes and infixes which are doubled and tripled. Many things are in passive voice, not in active.i.e. instead of saying Do it, they say "Be it Done by You". You will need to buy many grammar books and just drill yourself all the time.
2) It is not easy to get a good dictionary and when reading and finding a difficult word, you open up a dictionary and the word is not found. It happens again and again. Other people may not even know this word because it is too deep. Therefore, you may hire a tutor who is knowledgeable to help you with vocabulary.
If you study some 2 hours a day ( and you will need to study grammar very seriously) and have a tutor to help you with all this, six months will allow you to speak fairly well.
Buy grammar books, phrase books ( for travelers), then various novels and magazines. Read read read. Always have a tutor that you can reach for explanation of difficult points.
I found it a very good exercise when I would design dialogues
in English on daily topics ( conversations in taxis, at hotels, in restaurants) and then have my tutor translate those and we would practice together.
Good luck!
I don’t know how hard it is because that’s my language since I was born
But anyway, if you know Ruffa Gutierrez, a movie star who migrated from US to Philippines , learned the language by just reading Komiks, novels with pictures in it ( dunno how to explain it in a nice way) She’s a filipina but was born in the USA. His famous dad is Eddie Gutierrez, a matinee idol form the 60’s. Try reading some and you could be familiar with some filipino words.
It is as easy as 1-2-3
if your interested and eager enough you’ll learn fast.. tell your friends to talk Tagalog to you and eventually you will pick things up good. And having a tutor helps too.
there’s no difficult when you have a filipino friend like us.
At first its really hard but if you really interested to learn the Tagalog language it will be easy, you will find a way to learn like watching tagalog news, tagalog soap opera, tagalog afternoon shows, read komiks and talk to children. also try to talk Tagalog to your family members as often as possible from there you will be able to get the proper way to speak the language. Good luck to you.
not very difficult, most filipinos in manila already speak a mix of tagalog and english or "taglish". most Cebuanos disdain to speak in tagalog, preferring english as a common medium.
just speak english a bit more slowly, and without accent, and you’ll be fine.
it’ll take you about 3 months to be able to speak street-tagalog, don’t bother learning the formal stuff, nobody bothers with that nowadays.
don’t worry, you’ll get used to it… just continue studying it… Tagalog is written in Latin way, so it wouldn’t be hard…
according to this website (http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/june/Tagalog.html) Tagalog is level 2 in their language difficulty gauge. You as an American will find it harder to learn compare with Spanish and/or other romance languages but pretty easier than mandarin or Japanese.
However, you’re also in the Philippines, which means you’re around native speakers on top of the bilingual nature of the Philippine culture (where English proficiency is high), you’ll learn in a jiffy.
P.s.
after you’re done with Tagalog, move over to Cebuano or ilocano (they’re way better culturally). Tagalog sucks.
It’s not difficult. practice yourself by asking help with your friends to help you to speak Tagalog and you will learn it. it’s easy.
Nahhh..not that difficult
Juz always chat with Filipino(in tagalog of course!)
well it would be really easy if you always speak it more often with someone very fluent like your parents. And if you have mastered tagalog you could learn the other dialect much quicker cause some word are the same. Practice makes perfect. Magtiaga ka pare
watch Tagalog TV shows or rent Tagalog movies
just stick to tagalog mate because when you reach around 17 or 18 you’ll most likely bugger off to another country where they actually pay better. Tagalog isn’t terribly hard after a year or two you’ll get the hang of it. Don’t even try learning your parents dialect as nice as its going to be learing just one language is hard enough.
maybe .. nope ツ