kamusta na man ka. I need to learn Bisaya..........where can I find a learning module.........money is in short supply??????? help please. my wife lives in cagayan de oro and i want to surprise her lol!!!!! any help I can get would be much aprieciated, as I live in NZ it is hard to converse with filipino people.
not so many here where i live lol
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The importance of Cebuano morphemes
There is no easier way to learn Cebuano than to keep on communicating (talking and listening; reading and writing) with someone in Cebuano. But in your case, where Cebuano speaker is too few and hard to find, I suggest you keep on reading the posts here in Binisaya.com or subscribe to Bisaya magazine, (try this link: http://bismag.pbworks.com/w/page/9015766/FrontPage) or listen to online Cebuano radio.
For advance learning, the best thing to do is to know what are the morphemes (rootwords and affixes) used in Cebuano. Basically, Cebuano is more about transformation or conjugation of root words by attaching affixes. The grammatical structure in Cebuano is not very complex compared to English. Cebuano grammar is easy to learn once you know its morphemes.
For the root words, you can find them in the Bisaya-English Dictionary of Binisaya.com (but you have to look them up one by one). You can have them also from Edgie Polistico's Cebuano-English Dictionary (download the MS Word book version sample files AAA-KKK.doc, DDD-HHH.doc, III-OOO.doc and PPP-PPP.doc from this link: https://sites.google.com/site/pinoydictionary/home/cebuano-english-dictionary)
You will also learn on how to pronounce the Cebuano words with the syllabic pronunciation patterned after the Spanish style of phonetic accentuation.
For the affixes used in Cebuano, download the MS Word file from this link: https://sites.google.com/site/pinoydictionary/home/cebuano-english-dictionary
Good luck and enjoy learning our language.
MABUHI KA!
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