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To: Just another Joe
She's originally from Romblon but we're putting down roots on Palawan. Just bought some property there.

Yes, I am intimately familiar with the geography ans I know where Roblon and Palawan are. My honey wants to live in her province of Batangas, as long as it is not close to her relatives. I said that is fine with me. How are your language skills coming? It is a hard language, but I learn a little at a time. I have her on instant messaging, as we speak.

918 posted on 12/07/2004 7:57:35 AM PST by Mark17
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To: Mark17
I lived there for 5 1/2 years so I can hold my own in a conversation for about 15 minutes anymore. It's been almost 18 years since I've been there.
Before I left I could converse, in Tagalog, on just about any subject but it's been too long.
919 posted on 12/07/2004 8:04:43 AM PST by Just another Joe (Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
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To: Mark17
How are your language skills coming? It is a hard language, but I learn a little at a time. I have her on instant messaging, as we speak.

It is a pretty simple language actually, at least Tagalog, Cebuano, and similar are. Others, like Ilicano are tougher. There are many languages and dialects, some of which are quite divergent. My skills have actually more or less rusted away at this point.

One thing that makes Tagalog easy to learn is that many of the words they use are Spanish transliterated into their alphabet/soundset. I discovered very early on that if I was reading a Tagalog word that I did not know that was not obviously pure Tagalog, I would try to map the sound of it to Spanish in my head to determine its meaning. This works far more often than you think it would. I don't really know much Spanish, but I knew enough that I bridged a lot of gaps with it. The structure and form is not Spanish, but many of the words in the language were taken from Spanish.

939 posted on 12/07/2004 5:26:05 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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