Tips on learning a new language

loakes wrote:

Hi, I'm a new member and am getting anxious to move to the philippines in february 2013. I have a filipina wife and i want to learn visayas as quickly as an "older, young" man can. Does anyone have basic tips on learning a new language? I know the older you are, the harder it seems to be to learn new dialect.

Well I don't really have any basic tips, but I do have a couple of good websites that you might want to look at.  They are for Tagalog, not Visayan though.

http://tagaloglang.com/  and  http://free.lessons.l-ceps.com/learn-ta … son-1.html

Here are a couple more for Visayan, but I don't know how good they are.  I haven't tried them.

http://socyberty.com/languages/learn-ba … n-dialect/  and http://mactan.com/Learn_Visayan.html

Where in the Philippines do you plan on moving?  I'm guessing somewhere in the Visayas, but that covers a lot of places.  I live in the Visayas (Eastern Visayas)on the island of Samar.  Have you ever been to the Philippines before?
Please visit my website at http://texaninthephilippines.com, I hope it will be able to help you understand life here a little better if you have not been here already.

Hi UJ,

Have you moved to the Philippines yet? I am a Filipina but I'm not a native Visayan speaker. However, through the years, I have already acquired the language because my husband speaks Visayan and I've been living in a Visayan community for more than eight years now. This is a very simple yet helpful tip in learning new language. You just need to know the basic words first. Familiarize them and be patient in learning.

Rgds,
Mary Ann

Yes I have already moved to the Philippines.  I have been here since May 2010.  I was just answering a question for Loakes. Yeah I know to learn the basic words first, but I need to come up with my own lesson plan too.  I will have to figure out the language on my own I suppose.  I'll just practice on my wife because she won't make too much fun of me when I mess it up.  Well not in public anyway.

Agree.