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Vocabulary

Here is the comprehensive list of FiliPhrases Vocabulary lists hosted by Quizlet to help with your learning journey. Please note, each of these lists is still being constantly updated

Please note: If you set up a Quizlet account, you can add these sets to your account and it will track your learning progress as you go - this is the best way to make use of these vocabulary lists

Additionally, if you modify your Quizlet settings to 'accept one answer only', then you will get a better quiz experience out of it!

Message me if you have any questions

External resources

I'm always collecting new learning resources whereever I turn - here is a compilation of useful links to support your learning experience!

Reading resources

A collection of useful links to expand your knowledge of vocabulary and sentence construction through reading!

Online reading resources (free content)

  • [NEW] Freelipiniana - Archive of Tagalog stories, poems and non-fiction books, compiled by University of the Philippines. Content is available for all ages and reading levels. Still growing!

  • Gloss - 144 lessons centred around reading or listening across a range of different topics. Suitable for Beginners and above. Also available in other languages

  • Tagalog Reader - hosted by TagalogLessons.com - mostly news articles targeted at Intermediate and Advanced levels. Has a useful reader function where you can listen to the pronunciation of the words as well as save unknown words to your account

Bookstores (paid content)

  • Adarna House - Childrens & Teens Books in Filipino. Good for beginners and intermediates

  • Lampara Books - Filipino culture books for young readers. Good for beginners and intermediates

  • Tahanan Books - Filipino culture books for young readers. Good for beginners and intermediates

Movies and TV

STILL UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Free access content

With English subtitles

  • [Channel] Cinema One - A broad collection of full movies, short films and movie streams - CLICK HERE TO BROWSE CONTENT

  • [Channel] TBA Studios - Collection of full length movies of different themes and genres. Includes movies with both well known and lesser known actors - CLICK HERE TO BROWSE MOVIES

  • [Webseries] Hello Stranger - Boy's love webseries filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, therefore filmed digitally. Each episode is approx 20 mins long - CLICK HERE FOR EPISODE ONE

  • [Movie] Bar Boys - Summary: Following a group of friends during their journey through law school - CLICK HERE

  • [Webseries] Gameboys - Boy's love webseries centred around gaming, therefore filmed digitally. Each episode is approx 20 mins long - CLICK HERE FOR EPISODE ONE

  • [Playlist] Regal Entertainment Inc. - Although the majority of Regal Entertainment's collection does not have English subtitles, there is a small collection that does have them. Regal Entertainment showcases older Filipino movies - CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE PLAYLIST

Without subtitles - Upper-Intermediate / Advanced learners

  • [Channel] iWant - Hosts a collection of full drama episodes (approx 30 mins long) ranging from lesser known shows to more popular dramas - CLICK HERE TO BROWSE VIDEOS

  • [Channel] Regal Entertainment Inc. - Collection of older Filipino movies and drama episodes. Full drama episodes are usually only available for one month so check it out regularly! - CLICK HERE TO BROWSE VIDEOS

Movies

TV

Textbooks

Here you will find a list of the textbooks that I use and that I can vouch for. There are probably a lot more that exist out there but I can only recommend what I have used to date. I have not included any links as, depending on what countries we are all in, we will have different online shopping platforms/bookstores!

Beginners

  • Basic Tagalog by Paraluman S. Aspillera (Tuttle Publishing) - in my opinion this is an essential book for beginners

  • I'd Like To Speak Filipino 1 and 2 (Gusto Kong Mag-Filipino) by Victoria P. Carlos - This book series is so easily digestible but might be difficult to find where you are

Pre-Intermediate

  • Elementary Tagalog by Jiedson R. Domipge & Nenita P. Domingo (Tuttle Publishing)

  • Elementary Tagalog - Workbook by Jiedson R. Domigpe & Nenita P. Domingo (Tuttle Publishing) - I LOVE this workbook. It's not too overwhelming so is a good way to test knowledge

Intermediate PLUS

  • Intermediate Tagalog by Joi Barrios (Tuttle Publishing) - Honestly I think this book is kind of pitched a little higher than Intermediate - there are a lot of really complex texts and grammar points in here so I would suggest approaching this at a point where you feel comforable with the pre-intermediate text

  • I'd Like to Speak Filipino 3 and 4 (Gusto Kong Mag-Filipino) by Victoria P. Carlos - Again, I love these books but you might find them difficult to come across

Music

Below you will find a Spotify playlist to listen to my collated list of Tagalog language music, as well as an external website which faciliatates learning through song lyrics

Activism

Here at FiliPhrases, I want to make sure that this is also a community where we can affect change where it is important to us, so I want to link you guys to other carrds of causes that are important to me. Please find links below (information and petitions can be found within thesee carrds)