SpeakTagalog helps tourists and foreign students in the Philippines learn and speak Tagalog fast. It teaches the user conversational style of learning the Tagalog language instead of searching word meanings and phrases. Conversational data is stored locally on the iOS device using SQLite database so you dont have to be online to use the app.
This app was designed around table views who act as menus. Each cell of the table view further drills down to another menu until a detailed view is displayed. The final object of the view is another table view or a simple view.
As an example, the Introduction is one of the main menus features. Once Introduction cell is selected or tapped another menu is displayed until a final view is displayed (Introduction -> Is It Filipino or Tagalog -> detail view about the subject.)
The source of the table views or menus came from a SQLite database for iOS devices. All items (conversations, dictionaries, sections, and members) are stored in this local database so you dont have to be online to use the app.
The references came from at least 4 different books and online sources including google.com. I validated the words or phrases and their meanings then picked the best meanings, phrases, or sentences for this app.
Conversations:
• Adverb Phrases
• Asking Questions
• Asking for Drinks
• At the Airport
• At the Bank
• At the Customs Office
• At the Hotel
• At the Restaurant
• Buying Mango at the Market
• Dining with Friends
• Eating Breakfast
• Eating Out
• Expressing Love - I
• Expressing Love - II
• Going to Cebu
• Greetings - I
• Greetings - II
• Hailing and Riding a Taxi
• Hong Kong or Philippines?
• In the Hospital
• Meeting Somebody
• Paying a Debt
• Personal Pronouns
• Seeing Each Other
• Sleeping Overnight
• Useful Words - I
• Useful Words - II
• Waiting for Somebody
• Weather Conditions
• Writing a Letter
Sections:
• Introduction
• Things to Know
• Time & Date
• Family and Relations
• Tourism
• Food and Health
• Nature
• House
• Business
• Shopping
Members:
• Alphabet
• Animals and Birds
• Antonyms
• Bad Words
• Bathroom
• Bedroom
• Bodies of Water
• Colors
• Consonants
• Days of the Week
• Description or Traits
• Directions
• Drinks
• Environment
• Family and Relations
• Finance
• Food
• Fruits
• Furniture
• Health
• Holidays
• Hotels
• Human Body
• Kitchen
• Living Room
• Months of the Year
• Numbers and Counting
• Ordinal Numbers
• Other Hour
• Other Time
• Particles
• People
• Places
• Professions
• Religion
• Shopping at the Mall
• Speed
• Taste
• The Five Senses
• Time of Day
• Titles
• Transportation
• Vowels
• Weather
If you have any conversations or tagalog words translated soon please email me at [email protected]. I will consolidate all requests and do an update in a week.