I really want to learn Tagalog, my family speaks in both tagalog and bisaya and when I'm around they speak in English. I never understand a word they say when they speak in tagalog since I wasn't taught that as a child like they were. I can use google translate but I'm not sure if that's in tagalog since it just says filipino, I could also use a English/Tagalog dictionary but I can't learn the grammar so I can't structure my sentences. I can't ask my family since I don't talk to them frequently (perhaps twice a week) and they live 14 hours away by plane.

Where can I learn tagalog without paying for a tutor.

I can speak write read and type mandarin
but im a little weak at english
can speak tagalog with people
simple english.
where and what kind of job can i find in manila philippines?
the other problem is im just almost (after this month) 18
years old...have working experience.but only at restaurant
the other thing is
im exactly filipino
thanks
i was born in philippines
raice in philippines and taiwan
but i live in taiwan while im teenage ( im only 17 years old now..almost 18 no far)
tutoring is hard to find students
cause there wasnt that more parents belive at the age of 17....to tutor there sons
but i really have a great skills in mandarin.
the same time im also learning the character of china (shortcut ? i dont what it call)
by looking the front and the back of the sentence,its not hard for me to know the meaning of the sentence

for the call center . i really dont know about the things of that job.and it seems you need to be very well in english,too...as you see,im not that good in english...but basic english and tagalog comunication to people is not problem for me
( age is the really one big problem )
raised..not raice...see my english isnt that good (but someday i will master it too)
tourist guides ...eh..
for truth. i never mind about it
= = manila isnt really a place that tourist are going to
most of tourist go to cebu or other more island look .....
im in manila Q.C.
thank for all of advsie

I've always been fascinated by the cultures of our archipelago. My dad is from Mindanao, speaking the Mindanao dialect of Bisaya, and my mom is from Palawan, speaking Cuyunin. I'm also a student of political science, mainly interested in Philippine politics, and I find the imposition of Tagalog as the national Filipino language absurd. This is not to say that I think Bisaya ought to be the national language; I just feel that the national tongue ought to know how to speak all or at least most of the languages spoken in the territory concerned.

I love languages and learn them really quickly. It'd be great if you guys can refer me to a tutor (preferably not expensive) or at least to books I can study

Thanks!

Okay so like I might move to the Philippines for the first time and go to school there ( sadly I won't have a summer vacation. Hehe.) but like I don't know that much tagalog i mean i can understand it and stuff but I can't really speak it. I can talk Tagalog a little bit but not as much. I guess thats what you get when you're born in america. hahah. but like can you guys help me find a site or tutor me please. I'm up for anything. But I think a website is more helpful cause then sometimes people can be fake and they're not who you think they are. So please help me. Please?

We are American missionaries in Baguio City and we need to find some one who can teach us the Filipino and possibly Ilocano language. If you know of someone or of a website that can lead us to one that would really help us.
Also I just wanted to add that we need a tutor that is professional(preferably with a language teaching degree) and has taught these languages before, we had a tutor before in Mindadnao and it didn't work out because they didn't know really how to teach the language, they just basically knew it pretty well, Thanks

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?

i can be your tutor. Tagalog is the Filipino language while Cebuano is the language in most of the Visayan provinces. I can teach you how to speak some tagalog or cebuano languages.