>talagang pilipino

>di marunong sa wikang pilipino

a tale as old as time 🥲

i made a very good investment buying prof. john wolff's books on cebuano (i am visayan, not filipino) so i'd expect his material on tagalog/pilipino to be of similar quality. it's also very easy to immerse oneself in tagalog-language media through e.g. the radio (on either the radio garden app or an actual radio), tv (on youtube and facebook), et cetera.

i personally would worry more about vocabulary over grammar if i were you -- people online like to tout some aspects of the grammar (e.g. verb conjugations) as being incredibly complicated to wrap one's head around but in truth it's quite intuitive once one understands austronesian alignment/symmetrical voice, a morphosyntactic alignment particular to our philippine languages.