Teach Yourself Tagalog Complete Course Book

	Introduction	1
	Pronunciation guide	2
1	Sa paliparan / At the airport	5
	Introducing yourself and addressing others
	Greeting people at different times of the day
	Saying hello and goodbye
	Language skills: Si, sina
	Simple sentence construction
	Formal or informal? Ka, kayo You
2	Anong oras ang almusal / What time is breakfast?	17
	Checking in to your hotel
	Language skills: Verb 'to be'
	Enquiring about meals
	Language skills: May, mayroon Has/have, there is/are
	Wala None (no)
	Question words: Sino? ano? Who? What?
3	Para sa inyo ang regalong ito / This gift is for you	32
	Meeting your friend's family
	Language skills: The indefinite article, a and an
	Ang The definite article, the
	Saying 'thank you'
	Language skills: Hindi No/not
	Wala None
4	Nasaan ang post office? / Where's the post office?	46
	Asking 'where?'
	Language skills: Nasaan? Where?
	Buying stamps and sending a parcel
	Language skills: Adjectives
5	Pera / Money	59
	Asking the price of goods
	Language skills: Isa, dalawa, tatlo, etc. One, two, three, etc. Counting money
	Anong oras na? Telling the time
	Magkano, magkakano How much, how much each?
	Haggling
	Changing currency and travellers' cheques at the bank
6	Saan ka nakatira? / Where do you live?	76
	Using the question word saan
	Language skills: Saan? Where?
	Finding an address on a map
	Language skills: Masyado So, very, quite, too, etc. Find the right Jeepney/bus
7	Ang pamilya ko / My family	89
	Introducing the members of your family
	Language skills: Ko, mo, niya, namin, natin, ninyo, nila
	Possessive pronouns: Ng Of/of the
	Ni/nina + name of person/s
	Using 'ay' in a sentence
	Language skills: Ay
8	Sa restawran / At the restaurant	104
	Ordering your drinks
	Language skills: Mga Making words plural
	Choosing some typical Filipino food
	Language skills: Other uses of mga
	Asking for the bill
	Language skills: Ito, iyan, iyon This, that, that (over there)
	Mga + ito, iyan, iyon
9	Sa botika / At the pharmacy	119
	Asking for medication
	Language skills: Para sa For
	Para kanino For whom
	Para saan for what
	Consulting a doctor
	Naming the parts of the body
10	Tulong? / (Need) Help?	132
	Asking for help
	Language skills: Sa akin, sa iyo, sa kaniya Mine, yours, his/hers
	Mga kulay Colours
	Shopping for a gift
	Language skills: Kanino Whose
	Sa To/to the, in/in the, on/on the, at/at the
11	Gusto kong magpagupit / I want a haircut	148
	Making an appointment
	Language skills: Pseudo-verbs
	Describing what you want done
	Language skills: More about pseudo-verbs
	Language skills: More on the sa preposition
12	Bagay ba sa akin? / Does this suit me?	163
	Trying something on in a store
	Language skills: Verbs: Active voice/passive voice
	Transitive/intransitive
	The um verb
	Asking about alterations
	Language skills: Verbalisation of adjectives
	Describing the weather
	Language skills: Verbalisation of acts of nature
13	Sa istasyon ng bus / At the bus station	181
	Asking about tickets, destinations and departures
	Days, months and years
	Language skills: Mag verbs
	Enquiring about arrivals
	Language skills: Ma verbs
	Finding out what your journey will be like
	Language skills: Maka + um verb stem To be able to, to happen to, to come to, to manage to
	Makapag + mag verbs To be able to, to happen to, to come to, to manage to
14	Sa tabing-dagat / At the beach	201
	Hiring a boat
	Language skills: Mang verbs
	Particles
	Going swimming
	Language skills: Makapang To be able to
15	Sa simbahan / At church	218
	Becoming a godparent
	Language skills: In Passive verbs
	Attending a baptism
	Language skills: Changing the tense of in verbs
	More on particles
16	Maari bang gawin mo ito? / Could I ask a favour of you?	235
	Making requests and suggestions
	Language skills: Passive 'i' verbs
	May + verb
	Walang + verb
	Requests, commands and suggestions
17	Isang kasalan / A wedding	250
	Understanding Filipino customs and traditions: a wedding
	Language skills: Passive an verbs
	Expressing the circumstantial in passive verbs
	Talking about customs
	Language skills: Sarili ko/aking sarili etc
	Reflexive
	Mismo intensive
18	Sa isang pistang bayan / At a town fiesta	268
	Celebrating a Filipino fiesta
	Language skills: Pag + verb root
	Nominalised verbs - the gerund
	Ka + verb root + an, ang + verb
	Other nominalisations
	Language skills: Maki, makipag, makipang
	Participational verb forms in active verbs
	Handling a water buffalo!
	Language skills: Ganito Like this
	Ganiyan Like that
	Ganoon Like that (over there)
19	Ang buhay sa baryo / Life in the barrio	287
	Living in the barrio
	Language skills: Magpa + active verb To cause, to let, to have, to permit, to ask, to make
	Helping on the farm
	Language skills: Pa-in (ma/um verb roots), papag-in (mag verb roots), papang-in (mang verb roots)
	Language skills: Ipa (in and i verbs), pa-an (an verbs) To cause, to let, to make, to allow, to have, to permit
20	Paalam / Goodbye	304
	Expressing embarrassment
	Language skills: Kasing/sing As... as
	Doing last-minute shopping
	Language skills: Making nouns with pang
	Saying your last goodbyes
	Language skills: Mas, lalong, kaysa sa
	Key to the exercises	323
	Verb list	334
	Tagalog-English glossary	345
	English-Tagalog glossary	356