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Tagalog Pilipino: Audio CD Course (Language 30)

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It is a very clear CD with a semi-helpful booklet. The CD's are easy to understand and go everywhere I go. Great product at a reasonable price

Regarding Reviews for Tagalog Pilipino: Audio CD Course (Language 30). This may not be a helpful review for the product since I have yet to purchase it for my brother, who is getting ready to travel to the Philippines. But I'm a nosy character, so I decided to investigate the confusion about the reviews. I scrolled down to Heather Sommer's review and clicked SEE ALL MY REVIEWS, and Lo and Behold, she is referring to another book called Chinese Mandarin: Audio Cd Course (Language 30) (Audio CD). So, I clicked on the Chinese Mandarin link, and once again, Lo and Behold! All the SAME EXACT REVIEWS for the Tagalog Book appear for the Chinese Mandarin book. Very Bizarre!!! And, for the record, sub8hr was, in fact, referring to a book called Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2 (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language). Please don't be mad at the reviewers, it's not their fault. Tell Amazon that they confused the hell out of you.

I only bought this Tagalog program because Pimsleur does not, as of yet, have a Tagalog lesson set. Wow, was I ever disappointed! It just has a person saying each phrase twice and then moves on to the next. There is no continuity to the phrases, nothing conversational about them, and nothing that would serve to cement the information into one's brain. If you can wait until next year, Pimsleur claims they will be coming out with a Tagalog course in the Fall of 2007.

Thanks to a mixup on the Amazon server, some reviews of this offering seem to have strayed into the Korean section, with predictable confusion. But in fact this CD (formerly published on cassettes) is of very little use even for people who actually want to learn Tagalog. You can't teach, or learn, a language via recordings of vocabulary lists and simple phrases out of context. Which is all you get here. This material will leave you completely clueless about how to string the words together in anything beyond the preset formulae used here. If you want to find out what a limited number of Tagalog words sound like when read out as lists, this is just about fit for that limited purpose; but there are cheaper (and indeed free) sources of better material for that, which a quick Google will locate. If you have anything more than mild and limited curiosity about this fascinating language, then don't waste your money on this item.

i just read through most of these reviews and it seems to me there might have either been a mix-up on the part of the reviewers (reviewing the wrong product) or a glitch in the website (somehow transferring reviews for the korean language product to this page about the tagalog language product). anywho, that's just my guess.. because it seems odd that more than one person of different locales reviewed a product for korean.

FIRST OF ALL TAGALOG IS THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE OF THE PHILIPPINES "NOT" KOREA'S. SO WHY WOULD YOU GIVE THIS A BAD REVIEW BECAUSE IT DOESN'T TEACH YOU HOW TO SPEAK KOREAN. IT'S LIKE GIVING A SPANISH CD A BAD REVIEW BECAUSE IT DOESN'T TEACH YOU HOW TO SPEAK RUSSIAN. IF ANYONE DESERVES A BAD REVIEW; IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT GAVE THIS A BAD REVIEW BECAUSE IT DOESN'T TEACH THEM KOREAN. YOU DIDN'T DO YOUR RESEARCH AND YOU PURCHASED THE WRONG PRODUCT!

If you are looking to study Korean, learning Tagalog will leave you up a creek without a paddle. Why? Because Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines, not Korea. Tagalog is the major ethnic group of people of the surrounding metro-Manila area, hence Tagalog was adopted as the national language for the Philippines. There are close to one hundred major and minor languages in the Philippines, with many having dialects and subdialects. Ilocano, Bikol and Cebucano are three the largest by population languages spoken. However, Korean is not related to Tagalog, obviously, since Korea is located several hundred miles north of the Philippines by a sea and Japan. Anyway, as a study effort for Tagalog, this particular program is pretty good for an introduction to Tagalog. If you know nothing about Tagalog, it will quickly have you speaking basic phrases and give you a beginning vocabulary of Tagalog. You will not be speaking like a native in the language, but it is a great starter that served me well. It does offer a more intensive program if you wish to persue the language further. Good luck.