help wanted :)
Ok, so first of all, I'm looking for help-someone who wants to be a tutor for me. I know some tagalog and I'm building vocabulary, but I need to get it into conversational Tagalog and be able to understand or speak on the go without the pause and uuuummm......nakalimutan ko!
I need to see how sentences are put together, see someone use the different verb prefixes and affexes (ipang-, ipag-, etc) and have someone to practice with that can say "Ok, wait a second, I know what you're trying to say but the way you really say that is....and this is why" or "What on earth are you trying to say?!" and I need someone to teach me coloquial Tagalog, or the stuff that you can't translate literally, (like our English phrases, "I tried to get ready....")
Get the picture? I don't want this to be just for fun or someone to chat with, more toward just the teaching aspect (Yes guys, I'm married and not looking), but having fun is fine too if I can learn from it!
So yeah, I'm thinking msn messenger or YIM would be the way to go...and maybe emails sometimes too?
I hope this isn't against the rules of the community or anything? If it is, please tell me ha?
Ok, so if you're interested in the possible challenge....let me know! and thanks a bunch =o]
And incase that would be complicated & hard for people to commit to, I have a question about......verbs! (again!)
Ok, so here we go...
For example, the verb balik. It's the root for the verb come back and also it's the root for bring back.
As I see it in my table of verbs, the bring back meaning uses the prefix mag- and the come back meaning uses -um-. So, does mean that certain verbs use certain prefixes (or whatever you call them) only, and if I said bumalik that means to come back/came back, but never to bring back/brought back?
If I'm adding verbs to my vocabulary, I need to memorize the prefixes that go with that particular verb in order to give it the right meaning?
I've never heard anyone say sumalita or sumasalita (I don't think I have anyways) so I'm assuming it would always be nagsalita or magsalita form... is that true?
I need to see how sentences are put together, see someone use the different verb prefixes and affexes (ipang-, ipag-, etc) and have someone to practice with that can say "Ok, wait a second, I know what you're trying to say but the way you really say that is....and this is why" or "What on earth are you trying to say?!" and I need someone to teach me coloquial Tagalog, or the stuff that you can't translate literally, (like our English phrases, "I tried to get ready....")
Get the picture? I don't want this to be just for fun or someone to chat with, more toward just the teaching aspect (Yes guys, I'm married and not looking), but having fun is fine too if I can learn from it!
So yeah, I'm thinking msn messenger or YIM would be the way to go...and maybe emails sometimes too?
I hope this isn't against the rules of the community or anything? If it is, please tell me ha?
Ok, so if you're interested in the possible challenge....let me know! and thanks a bunch =o]
And incase that would be complicated & hard for people to commit to, I have a question about......verbs! (again!)
Ok, so here we go...
For example, the verb balik. It's the root for the verb come back and also it's the root for bring back.
As I see it in my table of verbs, the bring back meaning uses the prefix mag- and the come back meaning uses -um-. So, does mean that certain verbs use certain prefixes (or whatever you call them) only, and if I said bumalik that means to come back/came back, but never to bring back/brought back?
If I'm adding verbs to my vocabulary, I need to memorize the prefixes that go with that particular verb in order to give it the right meaning?
I've never heard anyone say sumalita or sumasalita (I don't think I have anyways) so I'm assuming it would always be nagsalita or magsalita form... is that true?