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Learning Tagalog: A Complete Course with Audio will enable you to understand and participate in everyday Tagalog conversations. You will learn Tagalog naturally and efficiently, and have fun at the same time. The course is suited for beginners as well as intermediate learners. Advanced learners can use the course as a refresher. At a pace of 15-30 minutes per day, the course can be completed in about 6 months. The course includes: (1) Course Volumes 1, 2, and 3, featuring 60 lively lessons that teach practical, spoken Tagalog taken from daily life in the Philippines; (2) Essential Tagalog Grammar, a comprehensive reference with clear explanations, useful tables and plenty of practical examples; (3) audio recordings of the 1,298 phrases of the course (natural and slow), available on CD and as MP3 downloads (sold separately on learningtagalog.com). The course offers dialogues for context and drills for practice, audio recordings paired with pronunciation marks in the text, literal and natural translations, cultural and grammatical notes in the lessons and a grammar reference for a complete overview, and a well-thought-out structure that introduces useful material early on while still being easy to follow. For more information and downloads, visit learningtagalog.com.