TRANSCRIPT Hello everybody. Bud Brown here. And I’m sitting in my car in the parking lot,

 waiting for my wife...a  very common occurrence in my life. But while waiting. I always

like to read a book or write something or do something useful so I thought well I would

take this time to share something that I’ve learned in Tagalog with you and hopefully

you can pick up something beneficial.

   In Tagalog, verbs and adjectives all have what’s called a root or basic word structure.

 For example, in English, the word 'edible' means you can eat something but the root word

 is 'eat.' It has a suffix 'able' on it, meaning 'can do it.'  The prefix in a word like

'unfair' the root word be 'fair' and prefix would be “un” meaning 'not' or not fair. Ok,

I think you understand that.

But in Tagalog there is a root part and there are different suffixes and prefixes

that you put on it to change the meaning. All adjectives have a root. For example,

 I'm gonna give you several adjectives. Bait means nice. “Mabait” is a nice person.

 So to say "You're nice"... “mabait ka” and the opposite means, Well I don't know

if this the opposite... "matapang ka" means "You're a mean person."

    So, Mabait= nice, matapang = mean. You can see they start with “ma” It kinda

tells you that it's an adjective and the rest of the word is the root word.

Matagal means a long time. Like to take a long time. "Matagal ka" that means

you take a long time. Mainit is hot.. opposite is malamig... cold, Malambot = soft,

 matigas = hard. For example, "Matigas ang ulo mo!" = "you've got a hard head!"

    Well, what I want to expand on this idea was if you take the word

 “Ang” it kinda makes this adjective the extreme. "You're so late!" you would say

 “ang” plus the root word, plus the word for “mo” meaning “possessive you” but

also has other meanings. You double the root. “Tagal-tagal” like your late is

 “matagal ha”. So I would say “Ang tagal tagal mo”. It means you're so late.

It's so hot , the word for hot is “mainit”. “Ang init init, ang init init eh”.

And the word for “really” which you gonna hear a lot in Tagalog is “talaga”,

means like truly or really.

    Sometimes you would say “talaga?, oo talaga,” Really? yeah really.

So, I would say, “ang tagal tagal mo talaga eh”. "You're so late, you're

really late!" which is what I say to my wife if she doesn’t get here before

 too long. "It's so cold" = “ang lamig lamig eh”. It is so cold. If I wanna

say you're so hard headed which is an expression for stubborn. “Ang tigas tigas ng ulo mo eh”.

 That means, "Wow,You are hard headed!" which my  wife is told me a lot and which I also

told her a lot too.

    So, anyway, this should help you some in learning adjectives.

Remember there is a root word and you double it, like, to intensify the word.

 “Matigas” means  hard, “ang tigas tigas” It's so hard, or “matigas talaga” It's really hard.

Ok, I think its that’s gonna be it for now. Till next time, have a good day. Bye bye.

MP3 Learn Tagalog with Bud Brown Part 2 Adjectives

Magandang Hapon, Kamusta ho kayo! Excuse ha nagugutom ako eh! Pero, sinabi ng asawa ko

hindi pa tapos ang pagkain ko eh! Kailangan kong kumain ng sorbetes. Gustong gusto ko

ng sorbetes naman eh!

Kaya mataba na ako eh! Amerikano ako pero marunong ako kaunti na tagalog,

kasi asawa ko Pilipina. Taga-visaya siya pero nakatira kami sa Cebu noon

maskin nakatira ako dito sa California pero gustong gusto kong magusap sa

mga paboritong tao kong Filipino. Sa tila ko ang mga Pilipino ay magaganda,

mababait, at tsaka gustong gusto kong ugaling Pilipino. Meron kaming dalawang anak,

isang babae at isang lalake,malalake na eh. Gusto ko bumalik sa pilipinas,

 pero hmmm sabi ng asawa ko mas gusto dito