Hi everybody, my name is Bud Brown and I thought I would just share with you a little bit about the tagalog language. This is just an introduction and I hope to have some more lessons. Even though I’m an American I spent some time in the Philippines. My wife is Filipina We’ve been married 35 years and so we talk in Tagalog and English in the house.
A lot of Americans that have married Filipinas or Americans that are interested in the Philippines
have asked me if I can share some tips on learning Tagalog. So I just want to give you a short
lesson right now. And then later, we can follow up with other lessons.
I wanted to just give the introduction like you would say in tagalog. I'm an American
or I'm a Filipino or I’m French. You would say the nationality first, then say “Ako”
meaning “I” for example, I would say “Amerikano ako.” My wife would say. “Filipina ako”.
If you're French, “Pranses ako.” If you’re from Germany, “Aleman ako.” Now, I should say
right off the bat that Tagalog is not my first language. If there are tagalog speakers there that
would disagree with anything I say I'm sure you would be more correct than I am. I don’t mind
being corrected myself because I always want to learn more. If what I say doesn't make sense or just
isn’t right.,be sure to let me know in the comments. I would appreciate that. OK?
“Ako” means I. The word for you is “ikaw”. But if you’re saying an expression. If I want
to say, “Are you an American?” “Amerikano ka ba?” “Ba” at the end of it is like a question.
American ka ba, Filipino ka ba. Pranses ka ba? Like that. Are you American? Are you
Filipino? Are you French?
The word for Yes is “Oo” there’s a more respectful form “Opo or Oho”. The word for
No is “hindi” with the respectful form “Hindi ho or hindi po.” You add “ho or po” then it
makes it more respectful.
If you wanna asked someone where they're from you would say “taga”. Taga-saan ka?
Means “where are you?” from “Taga-saan ka?” and then you would answer “taga-sa
America ako!. Or taga-sa Filipinas ako. Means I'm from America or from the Philippines.
[Editor's note: The correct way is “Taga Pilipinas ako” no SA after taga.]
Greetings. There really no “hello” You can say good morning, good afternoon or good
evening, and it sound like this: Maganda umaga. Maganda means pretty and umaga means
morning and lots of words in Filipino have “Ang”between the words. Magandang
umaga, magandang hapon, magandang gabi. Umaga is morning, hapon is afternoon. Gabi
is night. Magandang gabi!.
The word for “how are you?” “Kumusta ka?” so “Good morning, How are you?” would
be “magandang umaga, kumusta ka!. The more polite way or more formal way. “Kamusta
ho kayo.” Kayo, although it can means 'You all' or plural of you, it also means 'respectful you'
for one person like an older person I would say “Kamusta ho kayo? Magangdang umaga
Ho “Kumusta ho kayo” and the answer is fine “Mabuti”.
A lot of words and describing words in tagalog which we call in formal grammar we call adjectives
start with “Ma.” Not all of them, but a lot do. Like we talked about “maganda” is beautiful which, by
the way, you could say “Maganda ka” (you're beautiful.) But “you're handsome” doesn’t start with MA,
“Gwapo ka” (you're handsome.) Maganda ka. But, other words, describing words, like maliit, (small)
Malake (big). Malamig (cold,) mainit (hot.) A lot of words that describe things, which are called
adjectives, begin with “ma.” This will help you in classifying different words in tagalog. I think we can
wrap it up with this lesson.
The word of goodbye is paalam. Till next time
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