Advanced (C2)
Tagalog as native speakers use it: irony, humor, specialized fields, regional speech and the old-fashioned words of older speakers.
- 135 lessons
- About 11 lines each
By the end of Advanced you will
- Understand irony, jokes and wordplay, and what a sudden switch to formal speech says.
- Follow specialized talk in fields such as medicine, law, finance and academia.
- Recognize regional speech, such as Batangas Tagalog, and the deep, old-fashioned words of older speakers.
The lessons in this level don't have audio yet: they show the dialogue and its translation, and their audio is coming soon.
All Advanced lessons
- Day 1 Sarcasm Is Not a Confession
- Day 2 Gold Foil on a Poet's Budget
- Day 3 No Pressure Cooker for Tulingan
- Day 4 The Ending Is Not for Sale
- Day 5 Make It Look Hand-Painted
- Day 6 Can a Chatbot Have Loob?
- Day 7 One Missing Ga in the Transcript
- Day 8 The Water Office Has No Water
- Day 9 Not Every Line Needs Ala Eh
- Day 10 Balisawsaw Is Not in the Chart
- Day 11 Lolo's Speech in the Group Chat
- Day 12 Oro, Plata, Mata on the Stairs
- Day 13 Copra Prices in Ka Andoy's Yard
- Day 14 Leave the Hiss on the Tape
- Day 15 Rain on the Kiping at Dawn
- Day 16 Three Cones and a Flowerpot
- Day 17 Voting on the Second Floor
- Day 18 Riddles With a Batangas Answer
- Day 19 Where the River Used to Be
- Day 20 Ten Steps for Every Pun
- Day 21 Iced Barako Is Not Barako
- Day 22 Two Diaries, Thirty Years Apart
- Day 23 Save the House, Close the Street
- Day 24 Romeo Speaks Batangueño
- Day 25 Whose Name on the Barong?
- Day 26 Twelve Stones and a Stitch
- Day 27 Four Minutes Over on Air
- Day 28 Say It the Marinduque Way
- Day 29 The Last Witness to the Will
- Day 30 Florante at Laura at Dinner
- Day 31 Haggling Over a Dozen Lechons
- Day 32 The Kartilya and the Supplier
- Day 33 Pinoy Henyo With Lola Basyang
- Day 34 K-Pop for the Town Band
- Day 35 Free Coffee for Life
- Day 36 How Do You Translate Ala Eh?
- Day 37 Senior Discount, Junior Appetites
- Day 38 Nineties OPM Versus P-Pop
- Day 39 Small Claims, No Lawyers Allowed
- Day 40 Balagtasan Meets the Rap Battle
- Day 41 Two Weddings in One Year
- Day 42 Listing Fees for Pastillas
- Day 43 The Tawilis Don't Read Calendars
- Day 44 Gold-Plated Cotton Balls
- Day 45 Winter Coats for a Flood
- Day 46 Fair Share of the Adobo
- Day 47 An MBA for the Sari-Sari Store
- Day 48 The Chorus Stays as Written
- Day 49 Lolo Plans His Own Memorial
- Day 50 One Composer, Two Candidates
- Day 51 A Consent Form Lola Can Read
- Day 52 The Dispatcher's Batangas Puns
- Day 53 Slay, Like Santa's Sleigh?
- Day 54 Your Thesis in Plain Tagalog
- Day 55 A Sad Line in the Lullaby
- Day 56 Live Weight at Padre Garcia
- Day 57 Mang Teddy Corrects the Nurses
- Day 58 Third Time Digging This Street
- Day 59 My Poem in a Noodle Ad
- Day 60 Subtitling Eighties Slang for Gen Z
- Day 61 Freeze the Wet Manuscripts First
- Day 62 Round Fruits and Vision Boards
- Day 63 Two Generations, One Microphone
- Day 64 Naming the Laundry Shop
- Day 65 The Night Before the First Trial
- Day 66 Crash Course in Batangueño
- Day 67 Does Utang na Loob Expire?
- Day 68 Love Letters Typed for Hire
- Day 69 Be Positive at the Blood Bank
- Day 70 The Clerk Reviews the Judge
- Day 71 Rent After the Street Got Trendy
- Day 72 GG at the Old Pisonet
- Day 73 No Leading Questions in Lipa
- Day 74 Stars Hiding Behind Clouds
- Day 75 Double Debit on Payday
- Day 76 Digging for Vinyl in Cubao
- Day 77 The Balikbayan Box Arrives Light
- Day 78 Carols in the Dark
- Day 79 Pain on a Batangas Scale
- Day 80 The Door With a Poem
- Day 81 Verses on the Ninth Night
- Day 82 Two Dads at the Christmas Pageant
- Day 83 The Customer Knows Engines
- Day 84 The Trial of Juan Tamad
- Day 85 A Voter Ad for Gen Z
- Day 86 Tita Speak, Translated
- Day 87 Bahala Na in Four Lines
- Day 88 Restore the Old Spelling?
- Day 89 A Babysitting Contract From Mama
- Day 90 The Grandson Who Said Lodi
- Day 91 Alert Level Four, Mang Ciriaco
- Day 92 Don't Burn the Notebooks
- Day 93 Measles Drive in Marinduque
- Day 94 Haggling Over a Nineties Reunion
- Day 95 A Giant Like the Boss
- Day 96 Does G Mean Yes?
- Day 97 Telling Lolo About the Seminary
- Day 98 A Poem From 1983 Goes Viral
- Day 99 A Tenor on Vocal Rest
- Day 100 Blue Dye in the River
- Day 101 Credit Terms at the Hardware Store
- Day 102 The Wrong Strength on the Label
- Day 103 A Three-Minute Putong
- Day 104 Parody for the Videoke Contest
- Day 105 Do We Tell Papa the Truth?
- Day 106 Two Hikers Missing on Batulao
- Day 107 Doubts About Lola's Amorsolo
- Day 108 Erpat Came Before Lodi
- Day 109 The Last Line of the Anthem
- Day 110 His Accent Went Viral
- Day 111 Who Ran the Paluwagan?
- Day 112 Her Pocketbooks, His Manuscript
- Day 113 No Hilot After Hip Surgery
- Day 114 One Wrong Word in Bronze
- Day 115 Quitting the Bank to Plant Cacao
- Day 116 A Caregiver for Papa
- Day 117 Rival Poll Watchers, Old Friends
- Day 118 Who Are You Calling Marites?
- Day 119 Double-Booked the Night Before
- Day 120 The Lechon's Costume This Year
- Day 121 Is a Paete Carving Art?
- Day 122 Last Night at the Comedy Bar
- Day 123 Forty Years on a Borrowed Lot
- Day 124 Puns Between the Bamboo Poles
- Day 125 Disqualified by an Old Blog
- Day 126 From Harana to Talking Stage
- Day 127 Signing Out Against Advice
- Day 128 Two Speechwriters, One Balagtas Line
- Day 129 Debt Before Dawn at Navotas
- Day 130 Mama Is Marrying Again
- Day 131 The Harana Song, Sixty Years On
- Day 132 Compensation Day in Pola
- Day 133 Live Debate on Mandatory ROTC
- Day 134 Tita Got the VIP Tickets
- Day 135 Pamamanhikan With a Spreadsheet
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