Learning Tagalog for Tutors

How can Learning Tagalog help you?

Learning Tagalog: Fluency Made Fast and Easy is a Tagalog course that prepares students (age 12 and up) to participate in conversations. It provides all information students need to learn independently. It is therefore the perfect curriculum for your teaching. In other words, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel and think about what to teach. You can simply follow along with the student. If they have questions, you can give more examples or explain what they don’t understand.

Through lively dialogues and drills, the course introduces all fundamental grammar topics in Essential Tagalog Grammar. This will give them a solid foundation for speaking Tagalog fluently.

The lessons in the course are also entertaining. They will keep the student engaged.

Moreover, the course, audio, workbooks and grammar reference are easy to use. The students can review the material or learn new material on their own between sessions. This will allow them to progress faster. You can then help them by answering questions, providing additional explanations, and giving them conversation practice.

Because the material builds up gradually, the learning experience is smooth and enjoyable.

The course is divided into three levels:

• Level 1: Lessons 1–20, CEFR level A1 (beginner)
• Level 2: Lessons 21–40, CEFR level A2 (beginner)
• Level 3: Lessons 41–60, CEFR level B1 (intermediate)

Depending on how much the student learns alone and how much help they need, we estimate that each level would take 10–60 hours of tutoring. You can progress more quickly with non-beginners.

Even if the students already have some knowledge of Tagalog, they will still benefit from the course. Through the early lessons, they can review and practice previously learned material. They will also be able to understand certain grammar topics, which they may not have learned from other materials.

The course comes in three formats (editions): Online, Ebook and Print. They cover the same material.

We recommend the Online Edition for online instruction through video chat. It is the most convenient option because you can simply play the audio with the play button and the grammar pages are easy to access with hyperlinks.

With the Ebook Edition, this is not the case. The audio files need to be played separately. The grammar book is also a separate PDF file.

The Print Edition is like the Ebook Edition, but with paper books instead of ebooks.

While doing a video chat, the student can share their screen with you. The Online Edition can be resized flexibly to accomodate any screen size.

We suggest that you go through the lessons in advance. This will allow you to anticipate questions and think of more examples.

The course includes:

• Realistic dialogues and drills, explained with literal and natural translations, and notes
• Tagalog audio recordings for every phrase
• Workbook exercises that correspond to the lessons, with answer key
• A comprehensive grammar reference with thousands of practical examples

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