We are opening a NEW website, that will feature MANY exciting options.
You will be able to hear the spoken Waray as presented in the Lessons.
We will have a FORUM, where members can discuss topics.
You are invited to take a sneak preview: The New WEBSITE
Note: This website will remain, but I will be focusing most of my attention to the NEW website.
These lessons are NOT copyrighted, and may be reproduced
and distributed freely. Not responsible for any errors contained within.
I can be contacted at Barugoboy@fastmail.fm
What's New (added December 2007)
Learn to speak Tagalog
Download Podcasts of general Tagalog phrases.
This site looks very interesting Viloria.com Pinoy Podcas
Foreign Service Institute
Although no Tagalog, this site has MANY FREE Foreign Service Institute
language courses. These courses were developed by the US Government
and are in the public domain. A great site for serious learning of MANY languages.
Download the audio and text for each language course FSI Language Courses
English to Tagalog
What appears to be a commercial translating service.
Has many interesting links, also an offer of a free E-zine about Tagalog.
Posted as information only. I have not tried any of their services. English to Tagalog
NEWSGROUPS
For those with access to the NEWSGROUPS, many good language
programs and learning aids are posted frequently on:
alt.binaries.world-languages
Peace Corps Language Manuals on TORRENTS
A whole set of language learning courses developed for the US Peace Corps
Several cover languages of the Philippines Listing of all courses and TORRENT LINK
Websites Worth a Visit
Want to find language friends from all over the world?
Head on over to italki.com which is a language learning community.
It's main goal is to help people learn languages.
Sign up for FREE, and begin making friends worldwide. italki.com
The good people at Bansa.Org have a very good program available for download
that will tanslate words from many of the dialects in the Philippines.
I highly recommend this for anyone wishing to have a translator on their computer.
Please visit Bansa.Org here for the 13.4Meg file: Bansa.Org download webpage
Another very good program to have is Tagalog Translator developed by Stefan van Roosmalen.
This program is offered as freeware, and has over 5300 tagalog words in its dictionary.
You can search the dictionary by the English or Tagalog word.
This is a must have program for anyone wanting to learn Tagalog
Please visit Stefan's website for the download: Tagalog Translator download webpage
For those wishing to learn Cebuano, the US Peace Corps has a 319 page PDF document
that will quickly have you speaking/understanding Cebuano.
You can download the document here: US Peace Corp Study Packet
Another very well prepared study guide for those wishing to learn Cebuano,
has been prepared by Tom Marking. It is a 250 page, PDF document, that is of very high quality.
Tom also has many links to various resources for learning Cebuano. Worth a visit.
You can download the free guide at Tom's website: Tom's Cebuano Study Notes
If you know of any websites or resources that you would like to see listed here
please email me: Barugoboy@fastmail.fm
