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Download Ling to learn Tagalog ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Reposting one of our older videos today for our new listners! Some feelings only exist in Tagalog. Gigil is the urge to squeeze something unbearably cute, like a chubby baby's cheeks. Tampo is the quiet sulking you do when someone hurts your feelings and you refuse to say why. English will hand you five words for each one and still miss. In this episode Kloe walks through six Tagalog words that English borrows awkwardly or can't say at all, with stories from growing up in Manila that show you exactly when Filipinos reach for them. By the end you'll have words for feelings you have had your whole life and never had a name for. Words in this episode: gigil, kilig, tampo, lihi, kulob, bahala na.

Download Ling here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss This episode covers the difference between "Bisaya" and "Cebuano" and which word to use, six everyday words compared side by side, the false friends that trip up learners (langgam, gamot, palit, and one you'll have to look up yourself), the 1937 national language decision and why comprehension between the two languages only runs one direction, Kloe's honest answer on which one you should learn, and the same short conversation performed twice, once in Tagalog and once in Cebuano.

Download Ling to learn Tagalog: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Before you learn how to say "go" in Manila, learn how to say stop.Six Tagalog survival phrases for visiting the Philippines — and what each one tells you about how Filipinos treat the person in front of them. You'll call a stranger your older brother before you ask him anything. You'll ask a vendor for mercy instead of a discount. You'll say goodbye by telling someone to be careful.

Download Ling to learn Tagalog: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Tagalog is not the national language of the Philippines. Filipino is. And if that sentence just confused you, you're in extremely good company — it's one of the most-asked questions about the language. Kloe breaks down the difference: where the name "Tagalog" actually comes from (it's not what you think), the 1937 government decision that started the confusion, why Cebuano and Ilocano speakers pushed back hard against it, and what actually separates Tagalog from Filipino in everyday speech. There's also a quick quiz partway through — three sentences, and you decide whether each one is Tagalog or Filipino. Most people can't tell. There's a very good reason for that. In this episode: What "Tagalog" literally means The quiz: Tagalog or Filipino? 1937 and the decision that started everything Spanish and English inside modern Filipino So are they the same language or not? Tagalog Tea Time is also on YouTube, where this episode comes with maps, graphics, and Kloe's actual tea. Search "Ling Learn Languages."

Download Ling here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss In 1898 the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for twenty million dollars. Filipinos had already declared their independence that June. Nobody asked them. Kloe, born and raised in Manila, walks through the forty-eight years of American occupation that followed — the Treaty of Paris, a war that killed an estimated two hundred thousand Filipino civilians and is barely taught in American schools, and the shipload of teachers who arrived in 1901 and replaced three hundred years of Spanish with English in about forty. Then she traces what survived. The word for American that quietly became the word for any foreigner. Army surplus jeeps that turned into the most recognisably Filipino object in the world. A joke Filipinos invented to tap out of an English conversation without losing face. And why the Philippines celebrates independence on June 12, not on the day America agreed to hand it over. Tagalog Tea Time covers the things that are hardest to learn from a textbook or an app. The previous episode covered the British occupation of Manila.

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/s7y8y7e8 Filipinos have three complete number systems, and they switch between all of them without thinking about it. Native Tagalog, Spanish-derived, and English — each one has its own territory. Kloe breaks down how counting in Tagalog actually works: why isa, dalawa, tatlo lives alongside uno, dos, tres, why 333 years of Spanish rule left numbers behind but not the grammar, and the unwritten rules for which system to use when you're telling time, haggling at the market, or reading out a phone number. Plus the mistakes learners make when they default to the wrong one.

Learn Tagalog here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss In the 1540s, Burma invaded Siam — and warriors from Luzon were fighting on both sides of it. Portuguese chroniclers called them the Lucoes: Tagalog and Kapampangan seafarers from Manila Bay who traded across Southeast Asia, made their own firearms, and were hired by rival kings — decades before the Spanish arrived in the Philippines. Kloe unpacks this forgotten chapter of precolonial Philippine history through four Tagalog words: Lucoes, the name outsiders gave these warriors; mandirigma (warrior), from digma, war; bayani (hero), in its older, communal sense tied to bayanihan; and bayaran — paid, bought, a mercenary. Were our ancestors heroes, or hired blades? The language holds both answers at once. New episodes every Thursday.

Learn Tagalog here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Can the language you speak — or the one you lost — be a political statement? Kloe and Michael compare two passports, two colonial histories, and two very different relationships with a mother tongue. In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe (Filipino, raised in Manila) and Michael from the Ling team (Sri Lankan, raised in Dubai) get into how colonialism reshaped the languages they grew up around. They cover the pre-colonial Baybayin script the Philippines nearly lost, why English became a marker of class in both countries, the Spanish and American occupations of the Philippines, Sri Lanka's Sinhala–Tamil divide, and whether reclaiming a heritage language is resistance, nostalgia, or simply knowledge. Ling is built on teaching non-dominant, heritage languages — Tagalog, Cebuano, Sinhala, Tamil, and dozens more that other apps skip. Prefer to watch? This episode is also on YouTube (Ling Learn Languages), where you can see the passports, the Baybayin script, and the full conversation. Poll: Do you think language is political? Vote yes or no.

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Everybody knows the Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years. Almost nobody knows that for 18 months, Manila belonged to the British Empire. From 1762 to 1764, British warships sat in Manila Bay, a British governor ruled from Intramuros, and Manila fell in under two weeks. But the people who actually fought back weren't the Spanish elite — they were ordinary Filipinos from Bulacan and Pampanga whose names most of us never learned. In this episode, Kloe unpacks the British occupation nobody talks about: why Britain even came, how the "greatest Spanish fortress in the Pacific" collapsed so fast, the Silang betrayal, and the surname myth that won't die. Along the way, she teaches you real Tagalog rooted in the history itself.

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Is Indonesian closer to Tagalog or to Cebuano? The comments kept asking, so Kloe (native Tagalog speaker) brings back Monika (native Indonesian speaker) to settle it for good. They put it to the test in real time: the same sentence spoken in all three languages, false friends that trip everyone up — like "langam," which means "ant" in Tagalog but "bird" in Cebuano — and a number-by-number count from one to ten that takes a surprising turn when Javanese enters the chat. Along the way they get into why Spanish shaped Tagalog while Dutch shaped Indonesian, the Dutch loanwords Indonesians still use every day, and why two "sister" Filipino languages can sound completely foreign to each other. The final verdict? Even the native speaker changed her answer. Which do you think is closer to Indonesian — Tagalog or Cebuano? Let us know.

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss The language your Filipino family speaks is related to Hawaiian, Māori, and even a language spoken off the coast of Africa. Most Tagalog speakers have no idea about the 4,000-year ocean voyage that brought their language to the Philippines.In this episode we trace where Tagalog really comes from: the Austronesian language family, the "Out of Taiwan" migration, and the greatest sea voyage in human history — the one that carried Tagalog from Taiwan to the Philippines and on to half the planet, from Madagascar to Easter Island.You'll hear why words like "mata" (eye) and "lima" (five) are nearly identical from the Philippines to New Zealand, why Tagalog and Indonesian are cousins rather than parent and child, and why the Austronesian roots of Tagalog predate every colonizer.Every "mata," every "lima" is a word that crossed oceans. If hearing them made you want to actually learn Tagalog, Ling teaches it (plus 60+ languages Duolingo doesn't)#Tagalog #LingApp #LearnTagalog #Filipino #LanguageLearning #Austronesian

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ ⁠https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Kloe (Filipino) and Minh (Vietnamese) kick off Tagalog Tea Time with a deep dive into Filipino and Vietnamese culture: the food, the family values, the complicated pronoun systems, and the dating rules your grandparents definitely still follow. In this episode:🍜 Bánh Mì and Adobo — the great food debate🙏 Mano Po & "Dạ" — how both cultures show respect to elders🗣️ Tagalog vs Vietnamese pronouns — why Vietnamese is surprisingly complex⛪ Ancestor altars, Catholicism & All Souls' Day💑 Dating then vs now — what's changed (and what hasn't)Whether you're learning Tagalog, learning Vietnamese, or just curious about Southeast Asian culture, this show is for you. Tara let's!

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Why does Tagalog have so many Spanish words? Why do Filipinos count money in Spanish but count siblings in Tagalog? And how did 50 years of American rule turn English into a classroom language across the Philippines?In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe traces the two waves of colonization that shaped modern Tagalog — 333 years of Spanish rule (1565–1898) and 48 years of American occupation (1898–1946) — and shows you the fingerprints they left on the language Filipinos still speak today.

Learn Tagalog here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Thank you means stingray? 🤔 Kloe (Filipino 🇵🇭) and Asa (Indonesian 🇮🇩) are back on Tagalog Tea Time to break down the "false friends" between Tagalog and Indonesian — words that sound identical but mean wildly different things. From "salamat" to mutual-intelligibility challenges, this crossover is full of surprises.This is a follow-up to Episode 5 — watch that one first for the similarities and differences between Filipino and Indonesian culture and language. ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 00:45 Recap of Episode 5 + your comments 01:30 "Salamat" — thank you vs. good morning 02:30 Stingray vs. morning (and "thank you stingray") 03:15 Shared Arabic roots, different meanings 03:45 Words for "love": mahal, sayang & sinta 05:00 "Sayang" — love vs. what a waste 06:15 Pride month culture notes on the Ling app 07:00 Cute aggression explained 08:30 "Gigil" vs. shivering from cold 09:30 More false friends (the vulgar ones 👀) 11:30 Mutual intelligibility test — can they understand each other? 14:00 "Kasi" — because vs. to give 15:30 Why nuance matters in translation 16:30 Outro + how to join the conversation 🎧 New episodes of Tagalog Tea Time drop every Thursday on Spotify #Tagalog #LearnTagalog #Indonesian #LearnIndonesian #Filipino #LanguageLearning #TagalogTeaTime #BahasaIndonesia #Philippines #FalseFriends

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss How do you order food like a local in the Philippines? In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe (born and raised in Manila) and Jeans swap Filipino and Thai food culture — and teach you real Tagalog and Thai food vocabulary along the way. Tagalog Tea Time is the podcast where you learn Tagalog through stories, culture, and the stuff no textbook teaches you — brought to you by Ling, the app for learning underrepresented Southeast Asian and Eastern European languages like Tagalog, Thai, and Serbian. In this episode: - How to order food like a Filipino (key Tagalog phrases + the polite particle "po") - Filipino vs Thai food culture — rice, snacks, and culture shock - Why Filipinos have many words for rice — and the Thai equivalents - Pre-meal traditions in a Catholic vs Buddhist country - Tagalog vs Thai pronunciation (the "ng" sound westerners struggle with) Tara let's! #LearnTagalog #Tagalog #FilipinoLanguage #LanguageLearning #Ling