Easy Tagalog brings the language and culture of the Philippines alive, giving you all the basics you need to start speaking basic Tagalog immediately.The opening chapters introduce the essentials of Tagalog pronunciation and sentence construction, showing you how to build simple Tagalog sentences. Each subsequent chapter gives a short, easy dialogue that's useful in an everyday situation, along with a new set of sentence patterns and a vocabulary list to help you gradually build up your knowledge and repertoire for activities like making new acquaintances, going shopping, and much more. An extensive glossary at the back and a variety of interesting practice activities, with answer keys, help you build your fluency. The audio disc gives you a solid foundation in correct pronunciation and helps you get a feel for the spoken language.