Tagalog Class for Beginners WELCOME

Introduction What is your name? Why do you want to learn Tagalog? What is your heritage? Where are you originally from? What are your expectations from this class? What specifically do you want to learn?

Rules Class is every Sunday for 8 weeks from 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Attendance and your certificate Facilities No Food or Drinks allowed Break Assignments Books

Schedule January 22, 2006 – Introduction January 29, 2006 February 5, 2006 February 12, 2006 – Midterms February 19, 2006 February 26, 2006 March 5, 2006 March 12, 2006 – Finals, Graduation Party - Potluck

Course Outline January 22, 2006 Overview and Introduction Comprehension Pronunciation Vowels Consonants Basic Words Homework

Course Outline January 29, 2006 Comprehension Pronunciation Homework Review More Tagalog Words and Phrases Basic Sentence Structure Homework

Course Outline February 5, 2006 Reading and Comprehension Pronunciation Basic Writing Homework Review More Tagalog Words and Phrases Basic Sentence Structure Homework

Course Outline February 12 Midterms A Review of the last 4 weeks

Language and Dialect What is the difference between a Language and a Dialect?

Language Language is a system used by a nation or people A dialect is a regional or social variety of a language

Philippines The Philippines, unlike the U.S. which is landlocked - is an archipelago composed of more than 7,000 islands There are over 100 dialects due to regionalism

Styles of Teaching/Learning Memorizing Reading Listening Phonetic

Rosetta Stone

The Rosetta Stone was made in 196 B.C. and was found in 1799 It contains writings in 2 languages Egyptian and Greek in 3 scripts hieroglyphic, demotic and Greek

Rosetta Stone Jean-François Champollion deciphered hieroglyphs in He was able to figure out what the seven demotic signs in Coptic were. By looking at how these signs were used in Coptic he was able to work out what they stood for. Then he began tracing these demotic signs back to hieroglyphic signs.

Linguistic Language Learning –Listen and Comprehend –Speak –Write

Lesson 1 : Tagalog Vowels A(a-pple) E (e-cho) I (i-ndia) O (o-live) U (t-oo)

Vowel A Aso

Vowel E Elepante Estudyante

Vowel I IlongItlog

Vowel O Opisina

Vowel U UsokUlap

Tagalog Alphabet (Old) AaAa Bb ba Kk ka Dd da EeEe Gg ga Hh ha IiIi Ll la Mm ma Nn na Ng nang OoOo Pp pa Rr ra Ss sa Tt ta Uu oo Ww wa Yy ya

Tagalog Words Babae Lalake Daga Aso

Tagalog Words Apoy Palda Pantalon Mata

Tagalog Words Puno Mansanas Bahay Lamok

Thanks Homework More information –Pia Bernardino PHONE :