Is Tagalog hard to learn?

Hi judgeironfist! I was born in Manila so I don't find any difficulty in our language. My mom is a "Bisaya" and I really feel she's having a difficulty speaking right tagalog,her pronunciations seems not right at all and she stays like that for the whole time. So I guess,for manilenians,it's not hard to learn. By the way,I added you as my friend here in mylot,if you don't mind,I wanted to have many filipino friends here. See you around!

Its actually quite easy to learn if you have a little background in Spanish because some Tagalog words are derived also from other Spanish words. It would be much easier to learn if you would practice speaking it more often. I think its much easier to learn as compared to Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic languages. I think people from different places in the Philippines have also different accent when they speak Tagalog depending on where they are from because there are also quite a number of dialects in different places in the Philippines. Just like in English where people also have different accents depending on what country the people speaking it are from.

My native tongue is Cebuano but I live in a place where Tagalog is much used so it comes easy for me since it has been a second dialect for me. The process of learning a language I suppose would be the same for a foreigner wanting to speak a second language. Like it might be difficult for a Filipino not used to English to speak English and may have the accents wrong. The best way to learn is to speak it as it is different from just reading it or following instructions on a written text. If you have some Filipino friends where you are, you could practice with them. Glad to know you are interested in speaking Tagalog.

it would be easy if you will put your heart into learning tagalog. I guess nothing is hard if you're going to work hard to achieve it. As for the accent, it differs depending which place you came from. Just like in US, east coast accent is different from that of west coast but both speaks english. hope that helps! you can always message me if you want to learn tagalog and i can teach you some. Have fun!

Well, to start with, Tagalog is a somewhat, compilation of different languages, such as Spanish and Sanskrit. Despite the fusion of languages, Tagalog has no special accent to follow. It's not that difficult to learn, although some words are hard to pronounce. But remember, in studying a language, the deepest words are not that necessary. The grammar is just the same in English, like subject + verb + item. stuffs like that. I may consider it one of the easiest languages to learn. And the alphabet is the same with English as well. It's a fun language, so if you want to learn it, go for it. :)

It is not hard to speak or learn Tagalog.If you know how to speak Spanish, it's easy for you to learn Tagalog.No need to have a tutor.Try to visit Philippines one day or stay in the Philippines for a few years.Then you will learn and speak Tagalog fluently.

You can easily learn it if you want to. It is as easy as A-B-C when the determination to learn it is there. Many foreigners that I know who are even speaking the real Filipino language than those who are real Filipinos. The accent is not much of important in speaking the language. What matters is the pronunciation of the words.

Hi, overall for a foreigner Tagalog seems so hard to learn cause our accent, we speak the words as is, we don't have accent like American do. Tagalog words are rich with letter "A". It's hard to learn just like French word to us, we seldom omit letters in the words. I've watched in a tv documentary that there are Russian who study tagalog language and they speak good. If you are willing to learn, I'm use you will learn it by the help of online tutorial or a Filipino friend to help you out.

It depends on the level of interest of the person who wants to learn the language. Some foreigners amuse me when they do learn to speak Tagalog since they have sort of accent. It also depends on whom they learned it from. If the original teacher has an accent like Visayan or Batangas then their foreign student do pick up their style of talking.

For me Tagalog is like a none intonation. We speak as we speak. No kind of intonation to be used. You will noticed some Filipino has intonation is speaking Tagalog words because they have their native languages aside from Tagalog.

Tagalog is very easy to learn, if you know the English alphabet so much the better. The only difficult thing is the native languages, there are so many here in the Philippines. These are accented ones.

Actually tagalog isnt that hard to learn. You just have to pronounce all the vowels to pronounced it correctly. I was born in manila and I know 3 different languages aside from tagalog. You just have to focus and read more. And oh, its quite the same with spanish, because some of our words are from the spaniards.

if you can pronounce the vowels properly then it would be easy for you. A "aah" E as in the first "e" on elephant I just like how you pronounce the word "eat" without the T O same as how you pronounce the O in orange U sounds like "ooze" without the Z then just add consonants beside them and follow same rule (except c, f, q, v, z). then you won't have trouble pronouncing a tagalog word. as for changing the words themselves to past, present and future tense, it's quite quite easy because the root word is still there. you either add one or two syllables to the root word then you can change the word from present to future or past tense. example: "kain" meaning to eat "kumain" past tense "kumakain" present tense "kakain" future tense I on the other hand is currently studying Japanese language. nyahaha

I am a native Tagalog speaker and have interests about languages. From foreigner's point of view, he or she may find it easy learning orthography, nouns, and adverbs. Moderate difficulty for adjectives, and pronouns, and may be more difficult and challenging for verbs and particles/enclitics. It is very different compared to Indo European languages like English in terms of structure and grammar and morphosyntax. Complexity of verbs come in through conjugating (prefix, infix, suffix and circumfix and reduplication). Tagalog has a unique structure called the "trigger system" where the verbs are conjugated depends on which the verbs are focused (actor focused or object focused etc.) and tons of enclitics and particles which convey the meaning of the sentence semantically. Nouns are easy, no gender, no inflection. Pronouns can be manageable. Overall, ot can be learned and will attain fluency from 6 months to a year with continuous studying the language. Hope this answers your question. Good luck.

Its a dialect in the Filipino language that I get to speak most of the time. When you try to compare the Filipino Alphabets with the English Alphabets, it has two more letters, the Ñ and the Ng. When you are really fluent with tagalog, you can notice that instead of the usual vowels of a, e, i, o and u, you get to use only three since e sounds similarly with i at times as well as o with u. Consonants are constant while vowels differ depending on how each dialect would stress their vowels. Like learning other languages, if you are not a native speaker, it would really be hard at first simply because you have your own language with its own linking, stress, intonations and accents, but being exposed and practicing makes learning the language a bit more easy.

Learning Tagalog is not hard. If you are interested to learn, you can find a mylotter here who is willing to learn your native language, too. That would be a good way to learn the language for free.

I am a Filipino born in the Central part of the Philippines and Tagalog or Filipino (our national language) is not really our first dialect spoken in my birth place. We learn to speak tagalog or filipino when we started studying. Just like English, Filipino is one of our subjects. So we learn to speak it slowly. Watching Tagalog movies helped me learn more of it actually just like learning the English language, we study it and learn to speak it. I don't think we have an accent when we speak it. Just sound normal and natural! You will definitely be learning it fast if you have a Filipino friend to help you learn it.

It's not really hard to learn, but there are many other dialects in philippines while tagalog is just one of them. In fact, tagalog is not the most common language in the philippines. If u noticed, most pinoys have the tendencacy to speak fast which i don't know why. I do like their language as well, and their accent which is not thick, yet not like us singaporeans too.