A comprehensive, one-year introductory textbook for Tagalog, the language spoken in the Philippines.
Beginning Tagalog has been designed to meet the specific needs of adult native speakers of English who wish to learn spoken Tagalog, though students with other language backgrounds may be able to follow the course with profit. With fairly intensive class scheduling, and assuming laboratory assignments and home study, the text can be covered in one academic year.
The text is designed to accomplish two aims. The first is to impart oral control of Tagalog and, by means of an...