I would like to learn the language

Dear All

I come from Singapore & have the privilege to travel to philippines for vacation. I would love to learn some visayan language after visiting some of the philipppine islands. How do i go about learning the basic? Is there any reference or something for me to start off with. I hope to be able to understand & answer some simple questions during a conversation or self introduction. eg. hello, thank you.

After the previous visit, would love to come back for more vacations here as philippines has alot more to offer & would like to get to know the culture, people & language etc.

Your guidance is much appreciated.

Thank you!

Comments

For cloud9

Hi,

There are a lot of Bisaya-English Dictionaries you can buy at local bookstores (like National Bookstore, Powerbooks, Fullybooked, etc.) Or you can also visit some free sites like the ones that were posted here. To reiterate:

www.tomandcathymarking.com/cebuano/CebuanoStudyNotes.pdf

www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/14/cc/1f.pdf

www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/38/ae/7b.pdf

Goodluck learning the Visayan (Cebuano) dialect. It's an interesting dialect. I'm sure you'll have fun learning.

phoenix (www.modernheroes-tales.webs.com)