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@menay
posted: Apr 19th, 2024 12:07pm
"@menay Thanks! I have it fixed in the dictionary. Looks like the audio was correct, though...."
@Juantutri
posted: Apr 11th, 2024 4:12pm
"@Juantutri Ah, thank you...interesting. OK, so I can fess up... I read the original version (version #1) and was unsure about a couple of phrase choices by the writer (as a foreign language learner, I had trouble figuring out why they picked the version of saying what they did). So I ran it through the my artificial intelligence program asking it to "correct any errors or make it sound better," and the AI came back with version #2. Sometimes the AI said it like I would have, and other times it j..."
@emmmjay
posted: Apr 10th, 2024 3:10pm
"@emmmjay If you can't afford a live teacher... There are a couple free grammar guides online. Learn the basic pronouns, pronunciation of words, how to conjugate the different types of verbs, just he basics... Here are two: https://learningtag alog.com/grammar/ https: //languagecrush.com/book/ 3 Then also start using flash cards to learn the most common words. TagalogDecks.com is good and free (created by this website) with the top 2,000 most commonly used words. Once you have an overview of t..."
@Juantutri — I don’t know many people who can analyze text a
posted: Apr 9th, 2024 8:01pm
"@Juantutri — I don’t know many people who can analyze text as analytically as you do. Do you think you could look as these two versions of the same text, and tell me which you think sounds better? Which has more grammatical errors, and which sounds more “natural”? And why you might choose one phrasing over the other? One is by a native speaker and the other is not (neither are my text, to be clear ;) ) I’ve starred the places where the text differs. This is from a crime thriller fictional stor..."
@jiujiuguiyi
posted: Mar 26th, 2024 12:44pm
"@jiujiuguiyi That's cool that there is a Filipino major in Peking university. How did you decide to make that your major?..."
@Bennie329
posted: Mar 25th, 2024 10:37am
"@Bennie329 It's a grammatical change that happens to adjectives after the words "gaano" or "ganoon/ganyan/ganito". Ex: "matagal" becomes "katagal" in the phrase "gaano katagal." "malaki" becomes "kalaki" in the phrase "gaano kalaki."..."
@juunewe Welcome! The key to learning a new language is persist
posted: Mar 24th, 2024 11:24am
"@juunewe Welcome! The key to learning a new language is persistence. Be patient with yourself, learning a new language is difficult and takes time. A good grammar book is useful. This site has the best (imo) online dictionary with audio. It’s sweet that you want to talk with your lola. How old is she now? It might be a fun exercise to ask her personal questions (what was it like growing up, tell me about your home town, tell me about your childhood) and record her Tagalog response…then as your langua..."
@Juantutri
posted: Mar 22nd, 2024 10:15am
"@Juantutri Good info! I'd just add that in most learner materials for foreigners, they'd call "bigyan" a locative/location/directi onal focus verb...as opposed to ibigay, which would be referred to as an object focus verb. Usually, if the "sa" phrase in the actor focus counterpart (-um-/mag-) becomes an "ang" phrase in a verb, you'd call that verb a location focus verb, instead of an object focus verb. Just trying to clarify if people see other terms elsewhere. Some people have preferred we would j..."
@DrewWilson
posted: Mar 11th, 2024 11:08am
"@DrewWilson Not a native speaker...but... >& gt; """I think it may be simplest to just teach it by saying there is a relationship between the verb affix and the ang phrase and to not worry over “focuses” or "Point of Departures" or any other terminology.""" I think creating a course where you don't have a name for the thing ("focus") would be tricky....how would you say "This verb x has the same thingamajig properties as verb y"...versus, "This verb x has the same focus as verb y". "Foc..."
@NovaChromatic
posted: Feb 24th, 2024 10:47am
"@NovaChromatic If you see something like this, send me a message. The dictionary really should have two entries for those words, one for the maka- version and one for the ma- version, according to current guidelines. There are a number of other common verbs like this that appear to be maka- verbs that are actually ma-... makalimutan, makasama, makausap......"
@xpusostomos
posted: Feb 2nd, 2024 10:04am
"@xpusostomos @DenC is right, there a bunch of others, I was trying to keep it simple as a starter to explain why the pronouns vary...."
@xpusostomos
posted: Jan 31st, 2024 11:37am
"@xpusostomos It depends on the focus of the verb. For Actor focused verbs, it's the ANG pronoun doing the action. (ako, ka, kami, tayo, etc.) For Object focused verbs, it's the NG pronoun doing the action. (ko, namin, natin, etc.) The order of the pronouns does not tell you anything about who is doing what. Pronoun order has some rules that make them jump around (mo, ko, and ka, for example, tend to move closer to the verb)...."
@Juantutri
posted: Jan 15th, 2024 2:09pm
"@Juantutri In our text corpus and video corpus, the "kaka+root" versions of words almost always outnumber the "ka+ro+root" versions. Do you think that's because a large portion are not native Tagalog speakers maybe? Our corpus tends to skew more casual (Youtube videos, Reddit comments), so maybe that's it, too? I have to admit that using kaka+ just comes more easily/naturally as a foreign speaker, so I tend to stick with that one...should I switch?..."
@salman Sending you a PM.
posted: Jan 14th, 2024 5:18pm
"@salman Sending you a PM...."
Hi @salman, there is no rule-based way to know where the accent
posted: Jan 14th, 2024 4:01pm
"Hi @salman, there is no rule-based way to know where the accent lies in a word, you just have to look it up and memorize it. There is a list of root words, here: https://www.tagalo g.com/dictionary/roots.ph p ...but especially in the beginning, it's probably best to memorize full words, because the transformation of the roots is not always intuitive......"