Where Are The Pinoys At

kamusta

heyyyyyyyy <3

WHAT

in the wild?

I thought we were extinct!!

We will #never go extinct... PINOYS FOREVA

never forget hes one of us...

I'm still waiting for Dante Basco to make a homestuck liveaction......

On some real talk does anyone know of some good resources for learning tagalog? im at a pretty nice point where i both am gonna have a bunch of spare time just lying around AND i have a decent amount of spare change too so i thought it'd be cool to try and pick the language up (especially cuz im like filipino and shit and i think i gotta learn da language for real). also my grandparents would prolly think it's cool

Im swagpino too 0_0 Yo

I recommend talking to Filipinos, or watch some funny Filipino movies!! I'm not familiar with any apps that would help in learning tagalog, especially how we use a lot of english words now.

>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.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about vocabulary too much, especially the super deep tagalog words. Filipino nowadays, as I've observed, don't really use it and would just opt to english. That is if you wanna just learn Tagalog informally/casually.

I am no pro at tagalog and I'm the type of Filipino who gets asked if I wasn't born in the ph.

damn, i didn't know that was a thing.

ang bagong kwentong-bayan 🥀

Doubt, you sound very smart! I would trust your words.

Icic.. i read the little blurb on john wolff's book and it sounds right up my alley. I might see if they got it at my library (or just buy it online)

omg hi. i was waiting for when this thread would appear. hello

re: anomaletix

other than watching movies and shows try also going on filipino side of social media like in tiktok. or facebook and join filipino meme facebook groups because yes that's what people here still mostly use. and just look at the memes or viral posts and whatever and the comment sections. most people speak taglish and you can learn the slang easily too

I'm actually so happy seeing a ph hs forum because last time I wanted to join one, it was a facebook page and I was SOOO late!! No one was active anymore, they even did their promstuck oml.

wow. we stand on the shoulders of those giants.

re: anomaletix

glad to hear they're what you're looking for! if you're thinking of buying consider buying them from cornell university press https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book-listing/?q=Pilipino+through+Self-Instruction; they're $34/e.

re: equilexic

appreciate it! i'll probably buy it later today then and hopefully it should come around soon-ish.

Also if anyone has links to good tagalog meme communities (facebook, reddit, twitter or otherwise) slide them here and i'll tap in... i will terrorize the english speaking communities im in with this tech

re: turq0

it's time to sow the seeds for the Philippine takeover of HS... although im barely like ankle deep into the fandom i got no clue what promstuck is. i might have read a post or two about it here but that's the extent of my knowledge