Tagalog program
My husband lived in the Philippines for 2 years and when he was back in the States, he worked for an import company based there. His Tagalog is pretty good. We just got word that his boss wants to send us over in 6 months to open an office there. I know most people speak English very, very well over there, but we have had house guests from the Philippines before, and I know, quite understandably, that they slip in and out of Tagalog a lot, too. I'm not expecting to have a comprehensive knowledge of the language when we move, but I would like to have some basics down.
We were planning on using Rosetta Stone, because we had access to it for free through our library's webpage. However, they bailed on that program and opted for one that only does European languages. I've learned since that Rosetta Stone isn't the best program for Asian languages, because it basically just plugs the Tagalog words into the standard European-based lesson and so you're not getting the proper nuance or sentence structure a lot of the time.
Someone on Yahoo questions asked about what programs to try and someone offered the following links:
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/tagalog.html
http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/Tagalog/products.htm
Has anyone used these programs for learning Tagalog who can vouch for them? Are there others I should look into?
We were planning on using Rosetta Stone, because we had access to it for free through our library's webpage. However, they bailed on that program and opted for one that only does European languages. I've learned since that Rosetta Stone isn't the best program for Asian languages, because it basically just plugs the Tagalog words into the standard European-based lesson and so you're not getting the proper nuance or sentence structure a lot of the time.
Someone on Yahoo questions asked about what programs to try and someone offered the following links:
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/tagalog.html
http://www.transparent.com/languagepages/Tagalog/products.htm
Has anyone used these programs for learning Tagalog who can vouch for them? Are there others I should look into?