Tagalog for Beginners: An Introduction to Filipino, the National Language of the Philippines (Online Audio included)

Tagalog for Beginners is an excellent resource for anyone starting their journey in learning Tagalog. The book moves at a comfortable pace, making it easy for beginners to grasp essential vocabulary and grammar without feeling overwhelmed. Explanations are clear and concise, breaking down language concepts in a way that makes them easy to understand and apply. One of its standout features is the included audio files, which are incredibly helpful for pronunciation practice and listening comprehension.

Arrived perfectly

The vocabulary lists aren’t too long. It’s definitely possible to teach yourself with this book as opposed to other books that are more designed for classroom use (Domigpe’s “Elementary Tagalog”). I wish there was a little more detail in the grammar explanations but you can usually figure things like the order of enclitics by the example sentences elsewhere in the text. There are errors in the book and it seems like most of these are cut and paste errors or maybe changes from an earlier version of the book.

Just the basics as I needed

The best book I found to learn Tagalog. Recommend

As others have stated this is not for beginners. No pronunciation help and not enough word translations. Gives greetings to practice but does not provide the translations for all the words used.

I’m really enjoying studying and learning from this book. This book is wonderful!

I love the book, makes it very easy to learn the language,