We've started a new section on the TDC website for "Listening Practice" for intermediate Tagalog
language students. It includes Youtube videos (used with permission) along with Tagalog-language
with text transcripts so you can follow along easily and "train your ear" to understand spoken
Tagalog dialogue.
WHY YOUTUBE VIDEOS:
The great thing about practicing Tagalog with Youtube is that the language used there is more casual
than in a typical student/teacher environment. This means you're learning the language as it is
spoken in a practical, day-to-day way. You're acquiring the listening skills you will need to
actually understand what people are saying on the streets of Manila.
TRANSCRIPTS AND CUSTOM REWIND:
The transcripts included with all of the videos were custom created for this website by native
Tagalog speakers. There are also custom-made "rewind" buttons on the video pages so you can better
fine-tune your rewind during videos to repeat words or phrases you didn't hear or comprehend fully.
The one-arrow rewind goes back 2 seconds. The two-arrow rewind button goes back 5 seconds. This is
really helpful to repeat tricky phrases you hear efficiently.
The videos can also be controlled by keyboard:
Enter to Play/Pause,
and
Left Arrow to Rewind.
DICTIONARY INTEGRATION:
Every word in the transcript is clickable and shows definitions from the TDC dictionary. This makes
looking up words you don't know super convenient while watching your videos. The nice thing about the
TDC dictionary, too, is that it's especially built to handle all of the slang and abbreviations that
Filipinos use in every-day speech.
FUTURE VIDEOS:
We plan on releasing a couple of these videos per week, regularly, for the foreseeable future. So stay
tuned to the Tagalog.com website!
SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!:
If you support what we're doing, please share this link and this post on Facebook with anyone you know
is interested in the Tagalog language. We believe strongly that there needs to be more resources on
the web (like ours!) for students to fully learn the Tagalog language. It takes a lot of work, but
it's worth it if we know it's providing value to people out there!
