A complete language course and pocket dictionary in one! Let Filipino experts Barrios and Camagong teach you how to enjoy this beautiful language. Learning Tagalog brings the Tagalog language and culture of the Philippines to life, providing you with all the basics you need to start speaking the language immediately.Designed for beginners, this invaluable guide teaches you how to speak, read, and write Tagalog quickly through structured, progressive lessons with a focus on conversational communication. A glossary of commonly used words and phrases, useful notes, pronunciation, greetings, sentence structure, idiomatic expressions, etiquette, and cultural dos and don'ts are included throughout.Key features include:A focus on practical and authentic daily communication.Suitable for beginning learners with no prior Tagalog knowledge.Manga illustrations with short dialogues for easy memorization.A handy English-Tagalog and Tagalog-English dictionary.Structured, progressive lessons.Fully Romanised scripts throughout.Companion native-speaker audio recordings.A glossary of commonly used words and phrases.Free native-speaker MP3 audio recordings are available online and enable language learners to improve their pronunciation.
