Upper-Intermediate (C1)
Debates, negotiations and formal discussions, with formal Filipino vocabulary, proverbs and sayings.
- 160 lessons
- About 8 lines each
By the end of Upper-Intermediate you will
- Understand debates, interviews, negotiations and expert explanations, even when they are fast and dense.
- Follow formal Filipino next to everyday Taglish, and the deep Tagalog words of speeches and the news.
- Catch proverbs (salawikain) used naturally, and see how an argument is built.
The lessons in this level don't have audio yet: they show the dialogue and its translation, and their audio is coming soon.
All Upper-Intermediate lessons
- Day 1 Bangus at the Board's Price
- Day 2 In a Farmer's Words
- Day 3 A Proverb in the Final Scene
- Day 4 Who Still Says Laang-Gugulin?
- Day 5 The Date on the Marker
- Day 6 Not What the Internet Said
- Day 7 Slippers Made by Hand
- Day 8 Teaching Proverbs to Teenagers
- Day 9 When the Blanket Is Short
- Day 10 Too Deep to Pronounce
- Day 11 Cameras on Every Gate
- Day 12 The Wrong Area on the Deed
- Day 13 The Weekend Homework Motion
- Day 14 Storm Surge or Daluyong
- Day 15 June 12 or July 4
- Day 16 A Drone Over the Pineapples
- Day 17 Wizard or Salamangkero
- Day 18 Half a Harvest, Full Rent?
- Day 19 Cutting the Spaghetti Wires
- Day 20 Too Many Questions, Emily
- Day 21 Coconut Soap for the Rooms
- Day 22 A Sale That Was a Loan
- Day 23 A Summer Job at Town Hall
- Day 24 The Judge Cross-Examines His Doctor
- Day 25 Who Owns the Food Cart?
- Day 26 Changing the Wattpad Ending
- Day 27 Rewrite This Press Release
- Day 28 Copyright at the Dinner Table
- Day 29 Sensors on the Slope
- Day 30 Maybe the Rain, Maybe Not
- Day 31 Someone Else's Trash
- Day 32 Memories Under the Lahar
- Day 33 Fire Safety for the Vendors
- Day 34 Tawa-Tawa and Platelets
- Day 35 Only a Rumor So Far
- Day 36 Thirty Guests, Maybe More
- Day 37 Paid in Ninety Days
- Day 38 Closing the Street on Sundays
- Day 39 Baybayin for Everyone?
- Day 40 Two Scripts for One Program
- Day 41 Crystals, Not a Stroke
- Day 42 No English in This Meeting
- Day 43 Will You Stay Two Years?
- Day 44 What the Soil Test Says
- Day 45 Fifty Pesos More to Cagbalete
- Day 46 A Letter Against the Advertiser
- Day 47 Malakas and Maganda, Rough Cut
- Day 48 Initials on the Hidden Beam
- Day 49 Lugaw Until Sunrise
- Day 50 Moved, Not Removed
- Day 51 A Head Cook for the Panciteria
- Day 52 Firecrackers on the Morning Show
- Day 53 Oxygen at the Old Price
- Day 54 Who Planted, Who Harvests
- Day 55 The Gym Contract Renews Itself
- Day 56 How the First Jeepneys Were Made
- Day 57 Seventy Percent Chance of Rain
- Day 58 Not Allergic, Just Intolerant
- Day 59 Rejecting the Best Story
- Day 60 A Five-Minute Centennial Speech
- Day 61 A Patis Label for Export
- Day 62 Three Meters From the Road
- Day 63 Which Language in Grade One
- Day 64 Is the Ground Really Sinking?
- Day 65 A Stone in the Kidney
- Day 66 Maharlika Was Not a King
- Day 67 Read This Bulletin Aloud
- Day 68 Ibong Adarna in Taglish
- Day 69 The Tribute Lola Overheard
- Day 70 That's Not What I Said
- Day 71 Not the Salary They Promised
- Day 72 A Train of Satellites
- Day 73 Say the Suspension First
- Day 74 A Headline That Baits
- Day 75 The Pork Problem
- Day 76 A Notice for the Narra Tree
- Day 77 A Sow and Her Piglets
- Day 78 The Doctor on the Screen
- Day 79 Decline It Politely, Please
- Day 80 Registered SIMs, Still Scammed
- Day 81 Two Hundred Episodes to a Wedding
- Day 82 No Interest, Just Sundays
- Day 83 Great-Grandpa's Sedula
- Day 84 Gout After the Fiesta
- Day 85 A Cell Tower Next Door
- Day 86 Who Got Rich From the Galleons?
- Day 87 Old Words, New Words
- Day 88 The Drummer's Hearing Test
- Day 89 A Signature From Dubai
- Day 90 Filipino for Diplomats
- Day 91 The Last Bazaar Stall
- Day 92 No Fines for Non-Members
- Day 93 Printing Parts for Old Machines
- Day 94 Rehearsing the Coop Report
- Day 95 Pretty but Hollow
- Day 96 Banana Leaves Instead of Plastic
- Day 97 The Laundrywoman's Wrists
- Day 98 No Promises About the Ankle
- Day 99 Her Mother's 1937 Vote
- Day 100 Graduating at Seventy-Two
- Day 101 Wrong Day on the Loudspeaker
- Day 102 Thirty Years at Sea
- Day 103 Renting Out the Ancestral House
- Day 104 Sell Out or Hold Out
- Day 105 Off the Air With Teodora
- Day 106 Consent Before the Clinic App
- Day 107 The Pharmacy Franchise Fine Print
- Day 108 Leftovers by Law?
- Day 109 Pan de Coco Goes Viral
- Day 110 Cutting Her Husband's Memoir
- Day 111 Who Owns the Sidewalk?
- Day 112 A Murmur, Probably Harmless
- Day 113 The Surname Decree of 1849
- Day 114 The Taho Vendor Video
- Day 115 Red Tide on the Livestream
- Day 116 The House for the Youngest
- Day 117 The Deal Over Merienda
- Day 118 A Eulogy With One Joke
- Day 119 The Angry Caller Role-Play
- Day 120 The Stove Left On
- Day 121 Pension by E-Wallet
- Day 122 The Midwife Who Delivered Her
- Day 123 Solar Panels, Not Yet
- Day 124 Stores in the Stairwell
- Day 125 The Wrong Proverb for Day One
- Day 126 The Kulebra Around Her Waist
- Day 127 The Lakambini's House
- Day 128 A Pasalo Condo
- Day 129 Q&A After the Restoration
- Day 130 Settling Up With a Kumpare
- Day 131 Critique the Escolta Facade
- Day 132 Our Café Name Is Taken
- Day 133 Going Live With Tito Jess
- Day 134 A Fish Warden at Seventy
- Day 135 Abuloy From an Old Rival
- Day 136 Too Early to Call
- Day 137 Capiz Lamps by December
- Day 138 Two Years for the Province
- Day 139 Nobody Eats the Kare-Kare
- Day 140 Maria Clara in the Syllabus
- Day 141 Friar Land in the Family
- Day 142 An Heir She Already Knew
- Day 143 Not Menopause After All
- Day 144 The Fault Near the Tower
- Day 145 The Late Panelist's Question
- Day 146 A Posed Flood Photo
- Day 147 The Boundary After the Price Hike
- Day 148 Who Takes the Extra Rice
- Day 149 Still Driving at Eighty
- Day 150 The Gaming Sponsor's Contract
- Day 151 Two Stories, One Too Similar
- Day 152 Sell the Hot Spring Resort?
- Day 153 Air Quality at Recess
- Day 154 From Tagalog to Filipino
- Day 155 The Flour in His Lungs
- Day 156 Evaluating Ana's Speech
- Day 157 Dubbed or Subtitled?
- Day 158 Strays at the Meat Stall
- Day 159 Announcing the Turbulence
- Day 160 Waiting for the Bar Results
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