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Whats your Tag like?

Discussion in 'Language Skills and Development' started by globe, Nov 14, 2010.

  1. globe
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    globe Member

    Having been married for a good few years to a Pinay its only recently I have done much to try and Learn Tagalog.

    What have other non Phills done about learning a Phill Language?

    Me im just reading in books and thinking oh yeah I know that word from hearing it said so often.
  2. walesrob
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    I've learned quite a few phrases from Elsa, however she's teaching me the Waray flavour of saying things. Handy if some ignorant Welsh-speaking nationalist idiot starts babbling on in Welsh at me, I come back with some Tagalog, often the word "Buang, di ba" has them silenced.
  3. florgeW
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    florgeW Lady Mod Senior Member

    LOL@ buang... well, my husband has learned the following: ambot nimo, bahala ka, salamat... and of course, pinoy food names! LOL
  4. Aromulus
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    Yeah, thinking about it, I am picking up more than I thought possible.:like:
    I do understand a fair bit, when jet and her mates start nattering in the old klingon language of theirs, and sometime when I am 100% sure of the jist of the conversation I say something to give them all a giggle.
    Bisaya ain't that difficult after all. The problem is to try to translate tha facial expressions at the same time...........

    I know what tampo looks like......
  5. florgeW
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    florgeW Lady Mod Senior Member

    good!!! and the best thing is, how to make the tampo disappear ;)
  6. globe
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    ha ha Rob I like it and yes Dom about making up silly sentences :like:
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    Before a recent trip to Jolibee land I had for a good few weeks listened each day to Tagalog Lessons on pod cast from a few different sources and brushed up on the basics. It really does make the trip go smoother letting you chat in Taglish to family and friends especially those with not so good english.

    I even found in some situations with strangers with just the odd word of tagalog a chuckle could be raised or thanking them and saying goodbye in their mother tongue gave a postive view of a puti :)
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  8. oss
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    I know a lot of words but my grammar is poor, like Dom I am only at jist of conversation level rather than proper understanding but like you globe I have always found that giving it a try helps a lot with family, friends and particularly strangers over there, even one word can make a difference.

    I am handicapped by a stammer which oddly is much more pronounced when I try to speak Tagalog, I only really suffer from the stammer on telephone calls in the UK not in day to day conversation, but it's painful when you are trying to speak a foreign language :)
  9. Bigtombowski
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    Bigtombowski Pinaka Gwapo

    Hindi nakaka intendi ako ng tagalog ... pero mas magaling ko mag bisaya.

    I lived in Negros sulod sa usaka tuig, so, kabalo ko mosulti ug binisaya. Enough to understand what people are saying.

    In the City where I lived mainly the Doctors and Lawyers were the only ones who could speak English well, and I didn't care to get into much legal or medical trouble in the Philippines!

    Learning is good! :) Ganahan ko ani! :D

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