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    Survival Tagalog: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)
    Survival Tagalog: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)
    Survival Tagalog: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)
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    Survival Tagalog: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)

    By Joi Barrios

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    This practical Tagalog phrasebook puts all the most important Tagalog words and phrases in the palm of your hand.

    It includes tips for handling situations you'll encounter on a daily basis in the Philippines, making it the most useful Tagalog language book you can buy when traveling! Romanized words are given for each Tagalog word, ensuring that you know how to pronounce each word correctly. Manga illustrations provide visual cues to language in context.

    Key features of this Tagalog phrasebook include:
    • Pronunciation guides for each phrase with Romanized text for more accurate sounds
    • The right greeting in each situation
    • Correct personal titles for addressing Filipino people respectfully
    • How to ask questions and request things
    • Talking about your family
    • Telling time and days of the week
    • Major cities and famous places in the Philippines
    • Important public signs
    • Travel vocabulary and useful expressions like:
      • Getting to the Airport
      • Renting a Car
      • Eating and Drinks
      • Sightseeing
      • Health/Emergencies
      • Shopping and Money
      • And many more!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTuttle Publishing
    Release dateSep 10, 2012
    ISBN9781462910373
    Survival Tagalog: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Tagalog Phrasebook)

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      Survival Tagalog - Joi Barrios

      INTRODUCTION

      A, B, C ... the Tagalog and Filipino Alphabets

      The Tagalog language has only twenty letters, a, b, k, d, e, g, h, i, l, m, n, ng, o, p, r, s, t, u, w and y. However, the Filipino language, as it is used today, has 28, because of the addition of 8 letters, c, f, j, ñ, q, v, x, and n.

      The Unfamiliar Letters Ñ and Ng

      Two letters in the alphabet may be unfamiliar to you.

      First, ñ—this is the Spanish ñ. Pronounce it the way it is pronounced in Spanish. For example, the word for pineapple is piña, also spelled as pinya.

      When spelled with an ñ, it is pronounced PIN-ya, with the accent on the first syllable (approximating a more Spanish sound).

      When spelled with the letters n and y, pinya, it is pronounced pi-NYA, with the accent on the second syllable.

      You will find that in most cases, the spelling and pronunciation has been adapted to Filipino/Tagalog, but you can still find the letter ñ used in names and in other words.

      Second, the letter ng may be pronounced as "nang when used alone as a word, or pronounced as a singular sound ng" when it occurs at the end of a word (for example, lutang, pronounced lu-tang, meaning float) or when it’s followed by a vowel (for example, sanga, pronounced sa-NGA, accent on the second syllable, meaning branch).

      See It, Say It: Pronunciation Guidelines & Tips

      For Filipino/Tagalog, we read a word the way it is spelled, and we spell it the way we read. There are no long vowel sounds.

      Basic Sounds

      Let us pair off the letter b with the vowel a. Remember the language only has short vowel sounds...no long vowels, no extended vowels, and no aspirated sounds.

      Now practice saying these syllables:

      ba     be     bi     bo     bu

      To guide you, here are some words as well as comparisons to sounds in the English language. Note that the accents in the vowels indicate that the stress is on the first syllable.

      ba in báyad (payment) with the ba close to the a in baccarat (card game)

      be in bénda (bandage) with the be close to the be in bend

      bi in bíbe (duck) with the bi close to bee (the insect)

      bo in bóte (bottle) with the bo close to bought

      bu in búkas (tomorrow) with the bu in boom

      Now try it with the other letters:

      Diphthongs

      There are five Tagalog diphthongs (groups of letters that make a single sound): iw, ay, aw, oy, and uy. When you see these, remember that the pronunciation is very different from the way you would pronounce it in English.

      For example:

      With the accent on the first syllable, pronounce the second syllable like English word my. Do not pronounce it the way the word may (meaning can) is pronounced in English.

      Another example is the diphthong aw:

      With the accent on the first syllable, pronounce the aw here in a way close to the sound taw in the English word towel. Don’t pronounce it the way you would the English word raw.

      Similarly, the three other diphthongs are pronounced the same way. Try them:

      Two Vowels but Not Diphthongs

      You may also find some words with two vowels together that are not diphthongs, but which you may mistake for such—if English is your native language, then you might naturally tend to read these as diphthongs (or as letters with a single sound). Instead, pronounce them as the separate sounds they are. For

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