Learn Filipino: Book Two - Hardcover

Victor Eclar Romero

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1932956018 ISBN 13: 9781932956016

Publisher: Magsimba Press, 2008

Synopsis

This is the sequel to Learn Filipino: Book One.

Take a big step forward. Double your Filipino language skills. Learn then use compound and complex sentences like a native speaker.

Combine simple sentences into compound sentences. Combine simple sentences into complex sentences:
- to say what you know or think
- to relate two events in time (when, while, whenever, before, after)
- to say something happens because . . .
- to say if something happens
- to say something happens so that . . .

Improve your mastery of verb focus: actor, object and beneficiary focus

Feel at home in the use of ba, daw / raw, din / rin, ho / pa, kasí, kayâ, lamang / lang, man, muna, na, namán, ngâ, pa, palá, sana, tulóy, yatà . Omit these words, and your sentences would be missing that distinctly Filipino style. Use them, and native speakers will think you are one of them.

Learn five hundred new words, grouped by topic or situation. At the end of this book, you can expect to have a vocabulary of the 1000 most frequently-used words in the language.

Learning made fun by illustrated conversations, as in Book One. Music scores of Filipino songs. Recipes of Filipino dishes. Photos of paintings by Filipino artists. Photos of Philippine landscapes.

Book comes with four CDs' worth (320 minutes) of MP3 sound files downloadable from the book's accompanying website. Link to website provided when you register your copy.

Meets 2009 California World Language Standards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Magsimba Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1932956018
• ISBN 13: 9781932956016
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Illustrator: Manny Francisco