Teach Yourself Tagalog Complete CoursePackage (Book + 2CDs)

by Castle, Corazon Salvacion

• ISBN13: 9780071434188
• ISBN10: 0071434186
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: CD
• Copyright: 2004-04-14
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Thriller in Manila? Teach yourself Tagalog!With Teach Yourself it's possible for virtually anyone to learn and experience the languages of the world, from Afrikaans to Zulu; Ancient Greek to Modern Persian; Beginner's Latin to Biblical Hebrew. Follow any of theTeach Yourself Language Courses Audiopackagesat your own pace or use them as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are professionally designed for self-guided study, making them one of the most enjoyable and easy to use language courses you can find. Audiopackages include an instructional paperback book and two companion 60-minute audio CDs.Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including: Step-by-step guide to pronunciation and grammar Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Practical vocabulary and a bilingual glossary Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout An exploration of the culture And much more

Author Biography

Corazon Salvacion Castle has been teaching Tagalog for 23 years Laurence McGonnell currently lives and teaches in the Philippines

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Pronunciation guide	p. 2
Sa paliparan / At the airport	p. 5
Introducing yourself and addressing others
Greeting people at different times of the day
Saying hello and goodbye
Language skills: Si, sina
Simple sentence construction
Formal or informal? Ka, kayo You
Anong oras ang almusal / What time is breakfast?	p. 17
Checking in to your hotel
Language skills: Verb 'to be'
Enquiring about meals
Language skills: May, mayroon Has/have, there is/are
Wala None (no)
Question words: Sino? ano? Who? What?
Para sa inyo ang regalong ito / This gift is for you	p. 32
Meeting your friend's family
Language skills: The indefinite article, a and an
Ang The definite article, the
Saying 'thank you'
Language skills: Hindi No/not
Wala None
Nasaan ang post office? / Where's the post office?	p. 46
Asking 'where?'
Language skills: Nasaan? Where?
Buying stamps and sending a parcel
Language skills: Adjectives
Pera / Money	p. 59
Asking the price of goods
Language skills: Isa, dalawa, tatlo, etc. One, two, three, etc. Counting money
Anong oras na? Telling the time
Magkano, magkakano How much, how much each?
Haggling
Changing currency and travellers' cheques at the bank
Saan ka nakatira? / Where do you live?	p. 76
Using the question word saan
Language skills: Saan? Where?
Finding an address on a map
Language skills: Masyado So, very, quite, too, etc. Find the right Jeepney/bus
Ang pamilya ko / My family	p. 89
Introducing the members of your family
Language skills: Ko, mo, niya, namin, natin, ninyo, nila
Possessive pronouns: Ng Of/of the
Ni/nina + name of person/s
Using 'ay' in a sentence
Language skills: Ay
Sa restawran / At the restaurant	p. 104
Ordering your drinks
Language skills: Mga Making words plural
Choosing some typical Filipino food
Language skills: Other uses of mga
Asking for the bill
Language skills: Ito, iyan, iyon This, that, that (over there)
Mga + ito, iyan, iyon
Sa botika / At the pharmacy	p. 119
Asking for medication
Language skills: Para sa For
Para kanino For whom
Para saan for what
Consulting a doctor
Naming the parts of the body
Tulong? / (Need) Help?	p. 132
Asking for help
Language skills: Sa akin, sa iyo, sa kaniya Mine, yours, his/hers
Mga kulay Colours
Shopping for a gift
Language skills: Kanino Whose
Sa To/to the, in/in the, on/on the, at/at the
Gusto kong magpagupit / I want a haircut	p. 148
Making an appointment
Language skills: Pseudo-verbs
Describing what you want done
Language skills: More about pseudo-verbs
Language skills: More on the sa preposition
Bagay ba sa akin? / Does this suit me?	p. 163
Trying something on in a store
Language skills: Verbs: Active voice/passive voice
Transitive/intransitive
The um verb
Asking about alterations
Language skills: Verbalisation of adjectives
Describing the weather
Language skills: Verbalisation of acts of nature
Sa istasyon ng bus / At the bus station	p. 181
Asking about tickets, destinations and departures
Days, months and years
Language skills: Mag verbs
Enquiring about arrivals
Language skills: Ma verbs
Finding out what your journey will be like
Language skills: Maka + um verb stem To be able to, to happen to, to come to, to manage to
Makapag + mag verbs To be able to, to happen to, to come to, to manage to
Sa tabing-dagat / At the beach	p. 201
Hiring a boat
Language skills: Mang verbs
Particles
Going swimming
Language skills: Makapang To be able to
Sa simbahan / At church	p. 218
Becoming a godparent
Language skills: In Passive verbs
Attending a baptism
Language skills: Changing the tense of in verbs
More on particles
Maari bang gawin mo ito? / Could I ask a favour of you?	p. 235
Making requests and suggestions
Language skills: Passive 'i' verbs
May + verb
Walang + verb
Requests, commands and suggestions
Isang kasalan / A wedding	p. 250
Understanding Filipino customs and traditions: a wedding
Language skills: Passive an verbs
Expressing the circumstantial in passive verbs
Talking about customs
Language skills: Sarili ko/aking sarili etc
Reflexive
Mismo intensive
Sa isang pistang bayan / At a town fiesta	p. 268
Celebrating a Filipino fiesta
Language skills: Pag + verb root
Nominalised verbs - the gerund
Ka + verb root + an, ang + verb
Other nominalisations
Language skills: Maki, makipag, makipang
Participational verb forms in active verbs
Handling a water buffalo!
Language skills: Ganito Like this
Ganiyan Like that
Ganoon Like that (over there)
Ang buhay sa baryo / Life in the barrio	p. 287
Living in the barrio
Language skills: Magpa + active verb To cause, to let, to have, to permit, to ask, to make
Helping on the farm
Language skills: Pa-in (ma/um verb roots), papag-in (mag verb roots), papang-in (mang verb roots)
Language skills: Ipa (in and i verbs), pa-an (an verbs) To cause, to let, to make, to allow, to have, to permit
Paalam / Goodbye	p. 304
Expressing embarrassment
Language skills: Kasing/sing As... as
Doing last-minute shopping
Language skills: Making nouns with pang
Saying your last goodbyes
Language skills: Mas, lalong, kaysa sa
Key to the exercises	p. 323
Verb list	p. 334
Tagalog-English glossary	p. 345
English-Tagalog glossary	p. 356
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