Essential Tagalog: Speak Tagalog with Confidence (Tagalog Phrasebook)

Essential Tagalog: Speak Tagalog with Confidence (Tagalog Phrasebook)

by Renato Perdon
Essential Tagalog: Speak Tagalog with Confidence (Tagalog Phrasebook)

Essential Tagalog: Speak Tagalog with Confidence (Tagalog Phrasebook)

by Renato Perdon

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Overview

This portable, user-friendly Tagalog language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Tagalog before and during your trip.

If you only want to purchase one Tagalog language book--Essential Tagalog is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of the Philippines and is also designed as a Tagalog phrasebook, making it the most versatile Tagalog language learning tool on the market.

Perfect for business people or tourist traveling to the Philippines who want to supplement their learning, this book's easy indexing feature allows it to act as a Tagalog phrase book or as an English-Tagalog Dictionary. A clever "point to" feature allows you to simply point to a phrase translated in Tagalog without the need to say a single word. You will soon find yourself turning to Essential Tagalog again and again when visiting the Philippines and working or interacting with Filipinos.

In this book you will find:
  • Over 1500 practical sentences for everyday use.
  • A glossary of over 200 terms and expressions.
  • Terms and phrases covering essential aspects of traveling and living in the Philippines.
  • Extensive information about Chinese grammar and pronunciation.
This beginner Tagalog book will help you to quickly and easily learn Tagalog. Your ability to read Tagalog, write Tagalog, speak Tagalog, and comprehend Tagalog will be vastly improved without having to take an entire Tagalog language class. Other titles in this bestselling series of phrasebooks include: Essential Japanese, Essential Chinese, Essential Korean, Essential Tagalog, and Essential Arabic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781462910120
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Publication date: 02/04/2014
Series: Essential Phrasebook and Dictionary Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 192
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

Renato Perdon is a Tagalog native speaker now living in Sydney, Australia. He is an accredited translator both from and into Tagalog and also edits the Tagalog language section of the community newspaper Bayanihan News.

Jan Tristan Arroyo Gaspi grew up in Quezon City, Philippines. He earned two B.A. degrees from the University of California Berkeley, where he served as editor-in-chief of the university's annual Filipino.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction Pronunciation Guide Useful Lists Courtesies Conversation Eating Out On the Road Public Transportation Overnight Accommodation Money Matters Mail and the Telephone Shopping At the Tourist Information Center Sports Sickness In Trouble Word Lists

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