Second Day of Learning Tagalog

Posted in Tagalog

Technically this is still day 1, yesterday I completed Core Lession 1.1 and 1.2. This time I completed Core Lesson 1.3.

New Words

  • siya – he/she
  • sila – they
  • nagluluto – cooking
  • lumalangoy – swimming
  • nagsusulat – studying
  • paalam – bye

Example Sentences

nagluluto siya – he/she is cooking

lumalangoy ang mga batang lalaki => the boys are swimming

     

First Lesson in Tagalog

Posted in Tagalog

I’m planning a trip out to the Philippines soon and want to have some knowelege of Tagalog before I go. A couple of years ago I purchased a license for Rosetta Stone for learning Chinese, and as it turns out it also supports Tagalog.

Rosetta Stone doesn’t always give a lot of explaination of the phrases it teaches, I think this is deliberate. I plan to write about each lesson, researching what I’m learning to help solidify it in my mind.

New Words

  • umiinom – to drink
  • kumain – to eat
  • tumatakbo – to run
  • nagbabasa – to read
  • babae – woman
  • lalaki – man
  • batang lalaki – young boy
  • batang babae – young girl
  • ang
  • ang mga

Example Sentances

kumain ang babae – the woman is eating

kumain ang batang lalaki – the boy is eating

nagbabasa ang mga batang babae – the girls are reading

Note that red means i’m unsure of the translation, Rosettsa Stone only uses pictures to represent the concept, there’s not translation.

Grammar Notes

In the 1.2 section of lesson 1, they introduced “mga”, it seems that mga is used to make common nouns plural.