Speak Tagalog

Juanita De Guzman BSED, MSED Gutierrez

Description

Speak Tagalog on Day One and learn it, say it the easy way. A primer that can function in teaching TAGALOG in schools written by a teacher of thirty-three years experience . This book guides you in pronunciation, spelling, and translations, when to say the language properly and how to say it according to the traditions of the Philippines. Added bonus includes history of the Philippines, places to visit, and for the prayerful , you will find the complete TAGALOG words for each Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be. A book written by a native speaker of TAGALOG or Pilipino born, raised, and university educated and whose specialization is in languages of English and Pilipino based mostly on Tagalog. Written for beginners, intermediate, and the professional. This book is a great reference when you travel, in diplomacy, in friendships. Get this book in your hand and be a linguist . It is good to know another language beside yours that makes our world a great village of communication and oneness leading to peaceful coexistence.

Sujets

• Southeast Asian Languages
• Foreign Language study
• Lettres et linguistique
• Language

Informations

• Publié par: Outskirts Press
• Date de parution: 03 décembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 2
• EAN13: 9781478768913
• Langue: English

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Speak Tagalog
A Basic Primer
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About The Author
Juanita Gutierrez graduated from her Bachelor of Science in Education degree from the University of the East, in Manila, Philippines, with a major in English and minor in Pilipino. She holds a Master of Science in Education degree from Fordham University in New York City, New York, USA.
She has taught for thirty-three years and spent three years and three months as a novice religious at the Visitation Monastery in Virginia.
The author has taught English and Tagalog (officially called Pilipino), English Journalism, Tagalog or Pilipino Journalism, as well as holding the position of school paper adviser in subjects from the elementary, to high school, and through the university in the Philippines for ten years. She was also elected President of the Teachers Association.
Miss Gutierrez has been a Professional Development Resource Speaker at the Teachers Institute of the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of New York in New York, USA.
Miss Gutierrez was a schoolteacher in the New York City Schools, New York City, USA for twenty-three years. She was an elementary schoolteacher under the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of New York. She also taught as a Science and Literacy teacher in the New York City Public Schools in Manhattan and in The Bronx.
She has travelled extensively around the world, namely, Europe, the Holy Lands, the USA, and Canada, to name a few.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my parents, Jamito and Teodora Gutierrez who told us, their children, to keep reading and learning.
Acknowledgements
Grateful thanks to all who helped in the production of this book. Outskirts Press and its staff are beautiful, professional, and a genius team that make up this super company. It is a great honor to have them : from Larry Gray, manuscript specialist; Tanya Salgado, publishing consultant; Rebeccah Bodine, author representative; Lewis Agrell, custom cover designer; Ellen Nollenberger, Title Production Supervisor.
I thank GOD I found them and He brought me to Outskirts Press.
I thank my parents, siblings, all families, and friends for their blessings and support.
GOD ALMIGHTY is forever good, to whom I owe my reverence and appreciative heart infinitely.
Preface
This book was written to help those who would like to learn a language, for diplomacy, and international communications and friendships. This book will also be very useful to those younger generations who have been born in other countries and need to look back to their own roots. Tagalog or Pilipino is spoken nationally in the Republic of the Philippines and is a required school subject up to college. The country is composed of 7,300 islands. The City of Manila, Philippines is even larger than New York or Japan.
It helps to learn a language that you can use for friendships and diplomacy. This book was written in an effort to enable the reader to begin speaking the language as soon as he/she starts reading it. In all my extensive travels to other countries, I noticed that there are so many tourists coming from Asia, notably the Philippines.
The world is one global nation and it would be more of a family if we knew this language spoken by more than one hundred million Filipino citizens, half of them scattered around the world.
Introduction
The Philippines is the first Asian country to be a founding-member nation of the United Nations when it was founded in New York in 1945. Carlos P. Romulo, considered a great diplomat, was the Philippines’ ambassador at that time.
The biggest battle that the United States ever fought on sea took place in Lingayen Gulf, in the Philippine Sea, against the Japanese, in 1944. The exact ship is now docked and turned into a museum on the Hudson River in New York City, visited by tourists and schoolchildren around the world.
My own students visited it and it appeared as if they were back in the eighteenth century.
It would be a great privilege to speak the language of this great nation. Tagalog is the easiest language to learn. This is because of the way it is written and the way each word is pronounced. All letters are pronounced. There are no silent or mute letters.
All the letters are pronounced in sound, as the vowels and consonants are. As soon as you know how to read, say, and enunciate each vowel and consonant, speaking Tagalog is as easy as pie.
Table of Contents
About The Author
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction
Alphabet
Quick Conversational Tagalog Greetings to Know
Word Meanings
Conversational Tagalog
Bits of Philippine Tradition/Bits of History
Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be
Places to Visit
Practice Exercises
Tagalog Challenge
Index
More of Tagalog - English Dictionary Translation
Months of the Year
Days of the Week
Seasons of the Year
Counting: Number System
Reading Comprehension
Reading Tagalog News
Philippine Pledge of Allegiance
Philippine National Flower
Philippine National Anthem
How to Pray the Holy Rosary
Alphabet
[ABAKADA in Tagalog language] pronounced all in the schwa sound [a] as in cot, father ]
a, b, k, d, e, g, h, l, m, n, nga, o, p, r, s, t, u, w, y. All these letters are pronounced with the schwa sound [a as in bother , cot ]. Therefore, each letter will be pronounced (a, ba, ka, da, eh, ga, ha, la, ma, na, nga, oh, pa, ra, sa, ta, uh, wa, ya).
Exception: {eh} is pronounced as in [e]
{oh} is pronounced as in [o~]
{uh} is pronounced as in [uuu]
VOWELS-------[PATINIG] the [i] is pronounced in Tagalog as in schwa sound [i as in is, dig, mix ]
a. e. i. o. u. (a) is pronounced as in cot , (e) is pronounced as in bed , (i) is pronounced as in is , (o) is pronounced as in ball , (u) is pronounced as in pull
CONSONANTS -----[KATINIG]
b, k, d, g, h, l, m, n, nga, p, r, s, t, w, y. All these letters are pronounced with an [a] sound as in father , mother ). So this is how it is pronounced----ba, ka, da, ga, ha, la, ma, na, nga, pa, ra, sa, ta, wa, ya.
In the Tagalog language, all letters are sounded and pronounced. There are no silent or mute letters as in American English or French.
Quick Conversational Tagalog Greetings to Know
Mabuhay!!!!!---the (a) is pronounced as in father, the (u) is pronounced as in pull. This word means many things---long life, cheers, applause, hail. This greeting is expressed in great respect to a leader, dignitaries, or newlyweds accompanied by clapping of the hands or throwing flowers or rice to newlyweds or giving leis of flowers to dignitaries.
Kumusta ka?-----how are you? This is a greeting to anyone who you are seeing for the first time or have not spoken to for a while. The (u) is pronounced as in pull . (A) is pronounced as in pot .
Kumusta ka rin?
and how are you, too?
Mabuti po
I am fine (a very respectful and polite answer)
Ganito pa rin
so so, nothing is changing
Maganda
beautiful; a great compliment to any Philippine woman or showing approval for a thing or belonging. All the (a’s) are pronounced as in top .
Magandang Umaga
good morning. Umaga means morning. (U) is pronounced as in pull ; (a) is pronounced as in daughter ; (NG) is pronounced as in ang .
Magandang Gabi
good evening or good night. Gabi means night or evening or dark night.
Salamat
thank you. Again all (a’s) in Tagalog have only one sound, and are pronounced as in lather
Saan?
where. (As you recall, all letters in Tagalog are pronounced).
Tulungan ninyo ako
please help me
Ako
means me or I
Ninyo
means you or yours in plural form
Iyo
yours in singular form
Maawa na kayo Sa akin
have pity on me
Akin
mine
Sa
to
Awa
to be compassionate
Tama
correct; The accent is in the second syllable MA’
Mali
wrong, - accent in second syllable LI
Tayo na
let us go (the letter O is sounded as in all )
Po
when this word is placed in any Tagalog word, it means a sign of respect to the person saying this. Be sure to say this, though, to the older people. Otherwise, young ones will be offended.
Sino
who?
Ano?
what?
Kailan?
when? Each letter is pronounced and sounded as it is written
Bakit?
why?
Paano?
how?
Ikaw?
and you?
Marami pong Salamat
thank you very much, addressed with great respect
Wala pong Anuman
You are very welcome, a very polite voicing of appreciation
Word Meanings
Tagalog or Pilipino to English Equivalent /Translations
Alin?
which one?
Alon
wave
Akin
mine
Ah
oh
Aalis
leaving
Aandar Na
motor or car or bus going to run its route
Aamen
to get blessings from parents or elders
Arbularyo
a quack doctor
Away
quarrel
Alikabok
dust
Ahente
agent
Alat
salty, a colloquial word for police
Alinsunod
following
Alalaumbaga
therefore
Asin
salt
Asukal
sugar
Aso
dog
Aba
sign of disbelief or surprise when the accent is in the second syllable
Awa
pity
Babae
girl, female gender
Baging
vine
Bantad
shown bluntly
Babala
warning
Bala
bullet
Balita
news
Binibini
unmarried, single, beautiful woman, virgin woman
Bituka