Basic Tagalog is a friendly and accessible resource, providing beginning language learners with support, structure and thorough explanations. This is the most complete language course available for Tagalog in one easy volume The new edition has free online native-speaker audio recordings and dialogues in the contemporary Manila idiom spoken throughout the Philippines so you learn to speak and understand the language the way it's actually spoken today. All materials have been thoroughly updated to present the modern vocabulary and real-life expressions used by younger Filipinos. This textbook includes: Over 2500 Tagalog words and phrasesOnline audio recorded by native speakers to help with pronunciationBidirectional dictionaryUpdated cultural notes and sentence patternsManga illustrationsPractical exercises at the end of each lessonDownloadable flashcards