SIMON & SCHUSTER’S
PIMSLEUR
®
tagalog
reading booklet
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
tagalog
Voices
English-Speaking Instructor . . . . . . . . . . Ray Brown
Tagalog-Speaking Instructor . . . . . . . Mitch De Leon
Female Tagalog Speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . Lisa Russell
Male Tagalog Speaker . . . Francesco Pangalangan
Course Writers
Warren Tan ◆ Marie-Pierre Grandin-Gillette
Reviewer
Paz Mendoza
Editors
Joan Schoellner ◆ Beverly D. Heinle
Executive Producer
Beverly D. Heinle
Producer & Director
Sarah H. McInnis
Recording Engineers
Peter S. Turpin ◆ Kelly Saux
Simon & Schuster Studios, Concord, MA
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Table of Contents
The Tagalog Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Stress / Glottal Stop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Diacritics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Tapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
The Tagalog Alphabet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Relaxing “i” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Spanish and English Loan Words . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Tagalog ay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Humility and Intonation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Reading Lesson 1
Reading Lesson 2
Reading Lesson 3
Reading Lesson 4
Reading Lesson 5
Reading Lesson 6
Reading Lesson 7
Reading Lesson 8
Reading Lesson 9
Reading Lesson 10
Reading Lesson 11
Reading Lesson 12
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