How I learned to speak FLUENT Filipino in 6 months

This is my story. From knowing nothing about the Philippines to becoming fluent in 3 Filipino languages: Tagalog, Bisaya and Waray waray.

Now for all of you who want to try telling me "It's not Filipino! It's Tagalog!" The answer is.... it's basically the same language. There are only some very VERY minor foreign words added to the vocabulary to make it "Filipino". Tagalog was the lingua franca of people who lived in or near the government capital. During the Aquino presidency in the 1980s, the national language was officially labeled Filipino (which is just Tagalog with influences from foreign languages such as Spanish)

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[rodneycusi]

I’m half Filipino and that is my dad was born in Manila Philippines and spoke only togalog for 20 years. Then he moved to America and met my mother and so on. My dad never taught me the language the 19 years I’ve been on earth. Last month my dad passed away and now I want to dedicate this year to learn my dads native language so I can fly over to the Philippines and finally meet my family and understanding/communicate with them. I hope this website does the trick and if so, salamat!

[nenabunena]

Wow, your accent is good! A lot of foreigners claim to be fluent in Tagalog but sometimes their grammar and their accent was often bad.

[kanaboshii]

I wanna learn it so my mom can stop talking shit about me with the church ladies ;-;

[brunomoon]

learning Tagalog cause i wanna live in the Philippines

[whmsicl]

I’m a Filipino but I’ll speak english for now. For those who wants to learn tagalog, you can just probably learn it maybe less than a year. You can learn it in a short period of time if you are able to learn and practice everyday. Unlike other languages, they have their own lettering or alphabet thingy but here (and probably in other countries too) our alphabet is just the same as english so it would be not that hard to learn Tagalog. I have learned tagalog and english probably since I was a kid. Now I am aiming to learn both Korean and Japanese(It’s because of Kpop and Anime Lol) It’s gonna be a hard task but I’ll do my best I guess.

[Angelikaslife]

I want to learn Tagalog so I’m not a burden to my mom and my Filipino heritage




Edit 1 year later: still not fluent bruh… but I improved so I guess that’s something
edit over 1 year later: I am definitely noticing my improvements, I'm trying to push myself more in speaking and listening and just trying to consume more Tagalog content.. so, slowly but surely

Edit 2 years later: MATAGAL ANG LEARNING KO… pero I’m slowly getting more comfortable with the langage even though I cant fully express myself yet. Naintindihan ako ang mga daily conversations (to a certain extent). I’m hoping in 3 years when I go to the Philippines I can be close to fluent ✊🏼

[devin_ports]

Bless u that u learn the philippine language like bisaya, tagalog, waray

[smacrossing]

He speaks 3 different filipino language?! I've been trying to learn bisaya and it's not easy 😭

[nelmvn]

I'm glad you manage to speak, read, write, and also pronounce perfectly. You're 100% fluent.

[macycorey]

My mom never taught me Tagalog so I’m trying to learn it now😖

[TYGVlogger]

I can understand pretty well Tagalog but I’m not fluent and I need to learn my dialect Hiligaynon(Iloilo, my city) because I was born and raised in Italy and I’ve been speaking in Italian for my whole life

God Bless you man

[johncarlo]

Here are some key points about grammar in the Filipino language:

Word order: In Filipino, the basic word order is subject-verb-object.

Verbs: In Filipino, verbs are inflected to indicate tense, aspect, and mood.

Nouns: In Filipino, nouns do not have a grammatical gender and do not change form to indicate number. Plural nouns are formed by adding the suffix -ng or -mga to the singular form.

Pronouns: Filipino has a rich system of personal pronouns that distinguish between singular and plural, inclusive and exclusive, and formal and familiar forms.

Adjectives: In Filipino, adjectives usually follow the noun they modify and do not change form to indicate the gender or number of the noun.

Adverbs: In Filipino, adverbs are typically formed by adding the suffix -lyo to the base form of an adjective.

Prepositions: In Filipino, prepositions are used to indicate the relationships between nouns, pronouns, and other words in a sentence.

Conjunctions: In Filipino, conjunctions are used to connect clauses and words in a sentence.

Interjections: In Filipino, interjections are words or phrases that express strong emotions and are used to interrupt the normal flow of a conversation.

[angellaicamay]

I'm a I'm just happy to the people who wanna learn our language 😊😊😊😊Filipino language isn't hard though 😉😉😉

[loulousan]

How did u do it I am literally Filipina and I still don’t know how to speak Tagalog can u give me some tips !

[learnfilipinotoday]

It's pretty amazing to see people from other nations becoming fluent with Filipino. You actually have a good accent as well. 🙂

[AJFlo-givx]

My best friends are filipino and I want to learn tagalog because it sounds pretty. I also know spanish.

[kirsy]

Ive always wanted to learn tagalog since my mom is from the Philippines (but i’m half filipino, so was never taught at home) all my filipino friends want me to learn!

[thxrmite]

Your way of pronouncing the words is really accurate! I'm glad you decided to learn our language and live in the Philippines for a few years (?)! Keep up the great work!

[thybiscuit]

There are two type of Filipino learner (Mostly)
1: People who married to a Filipina
2: People with Filipino parent/s who grow up outside the country

[ssjsamusaran]

Does it help any having a Hispanic background? I was born in Germany and moved to America since my dad was military. Still living in America for 34 years and basically have been Americanized and my Puerto Rican culture has basically left me. I can decently speak Spanish and understand it perfectly, but reading and writing it is quite difficult. I do notice many tagalog words have the same Spanish meaning as well, but is definitely not spelled same way.