Tagalog Tea Time: Learn with Kloe

Download Ling to learn Tagalog ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Reposting one of our older videos today for our new listners! Some feelings only exist in Tagalog. Gigil is the urge to squeeze something unbearably cute, like a chubby baby's cheeks. Tampo is the quiet sulking you do when someone hurts your feelings and you refuse to say why. English will hand you five words for each...

Download Ling here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss This episode covers the difference between "Bisaya" and "Cebuano" and which word to use, six everyday words compared side by side, the false friends that trip up learners (langgam, gamot, palit, and one you'll have to look up yourself), the 1937 national language decision and why comprehension between the two lan...

Download Ling to learn Tagalog: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Before you learn how to say "go" in Manila, learn how to say stop. Six Tagalog survival phrases for visiting the Philippines — and what each one tells you about how Filipinos treat the person in front of them. You'll call a stranger your older brother before you ask him anything. You'll ask a vendor for mer...

Download Ling to learn Tagalog: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Tagalog is not the national language of the Philippines. Filipino is. And if that sentence just confused you, you're in extremely good company — it's one of the most-asked questions about the language. Kloe breaks down the difference: where the name "Tagalog" actually comes from (it's not what you think...

Download Ling here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss In 1898 the United States bought the Philippines from Spain for twenty million dollars. Filipinos had already declared their independence that June. Nobody asked them. Kloe, born and raised in Manila, walks through the forty-eight years of American occupation that followed — the Treaty of Paris, a war that killed an estimated two hund...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/s7y8y7e8 Filipinos have three complete number systems, and they switch between all of them without thinking about it. Native Tagalog, Spanish-derived, and English — each one has its own territory. Kloe breaks down how counting in Tagalog actually works: why isa, dalawa, tatlo lives alongside uno, dos, tres, why 333 years of Spanish rule left n...

Learn Tagalog here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss In the 1540s, Burma invaded Siam — and warriors from Luzon were fighting on both sides of it. Portuguese chroniclers called them the Lucoes: Tagalog and Kapampangan seafarers from Manila Bay who traded across Southeast Asia, made their own firearms, and were hired by rival kings — decades before the Spanish arrived in the Philippines. K...

Learn Tagalog here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Can the language you speak — or the one you lost — be a political statement? Kloe and Michael compare two passports, two colonial histories, and two very different relationships with a mother tongue. In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe (Filipino, raised in Manila) and Michael from the Ling team (Sri Lankan, raised in Dubai) get in...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Everybody knows the Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years. Almost nobody knows that for 18 months, Manila belonged to the British Empire. From 1762 to 1764, British warships sat in Manila Bay, a British governor ruled from Intramuros, and Manila fell in under two weeks. But the people who actually fought back weren't the...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Is Indonesian closer to Tagalog or to Cebuano? The comments kept asking, so Kloe (native Tagalog speaker) brings back Monika (native Indonesian speaker) to settle it for good. They put it to the test in real time: the same sentence spoken in all three languages, false friends that trip everyone up — like "langam," which mean...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss The language your Filipino family speaks is related to Hawaiian, Māori, and even a language spoken off the coast of Africa. Most Tagalog speakers have no idea about the 4,000-year ocean voyage that brought their language to the Philippines. In this episode we trace where Tagalog really comes from: the Austronesian language family, the...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ ⁠https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Kloe (Filipino) and Minh (Vietnamese) kick off Tagalog Tea Time with a deep dive into Filipino and Vietnamese culture: the food, the family values, the complicated pronoun systems, and the dating rules your grandparents definitely still follow. In this episode:🍜 Bánh Mì and Adobo — the great food debate🙏 Mano Po & "Dạ&quot...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Why does Tagalog have so many Spanish words? Why do Filipinos count money in Spanish but count siblings in Tagalog? And how did 50 years of American rule turn English into a classroom language across the Philippines? In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe traces the two waves of colonization that shaped modern Tagalog — 333 years o...

Learn Tagalog here: https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Thank you means stingray? 🤔 Kloe (Filipino 🇵🇭) and Asa (Indonesian 🇮🇩) are back on Tagalog Tea Time to break down the "false friends" between Tagalog and Indonesian — words that sound identical but mean wildly different things. From "salamat" to mutual-intelligibility challenges, this crossover is full of surprises. This is a follow-up...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss How do you order food like a local in the Philippines? In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe (born and raised in Manila) and Jeans swap Filipino and Thai food culture — and teach you real Tagalog and Thai food vocabulary along the way. Tagalog Tea Time is the podcast where you learn Tagalog through stories, culture, and the stuff...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss In this special Pride Month episode of Learn Tagalog with Ling, we celebrate the color, warmth, and resilience of the Filipino LGBTQ+ community, and our relations to the Thai gays 🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈🇹🇭 Explore the rich and playful language of queer Filipinos and Thai people, from everyday terms to the legendary world of Filipino and Thai gay ling...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss He called me his coworker three months ago. Now he's my boyfriend — and he's learning how to say "I love you" in Tagalog. In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, I teach my boyfriend Michael (Sri Lankan, raised in Dubai, now living in Thailand) the most romantic Tagalog words and phrases — from "Mahal kita" to "Aking Sinta" — and we talk...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Why do Filipinos switch between English and Tagalog mid-sentence? In this episode of Tagalog Tea Time, Kloe and Melissa break down Taglish — the everyday blend of English and Tagalog that powers conversations across the Philippines. From counting money in English to dreaming in Tagalog, from "conyo" stereotypes to workplace code-switc...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss Our first Filipino-Indonesian language video hit 10.1 million views on TikTok. This is the deeper conversation behind it. Kloe (🇵🇭) and Asa (🇮🇩) are back for Part 2 of Tagalog Tea Time — unpacking why two countries that aren't even next to each other ended up with languages that sound like cousins. From Austronesian migration and Mala...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss⁠ An Indonesian speaker told her Filipino colleague "Aku suka kamu" — and accidentally said "I vomit you." 😂 That's the magic of Tagalog and Indonesian: two languages with the same Austronesian roots, hundreds of shared words, and some very dangerous false friends. Join Kloe (native Tagalog speaker) and Monika (Indonesian learning Tag...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ ⁠https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss⁠⁠ Filipino dating has its own vocabulary, and most of it didn't come from a textbook. Ligaw is the old art of courting someone, sometimes by literally serenading them outside their window. MU means "mutual understanding," that situationship phase before anyone dares say the words boyfriend or girlfriend. In this episode, Kloe shares...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ ⁠https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss⁠⁠ Some feelings only exist in Tagalog. Gigil is the urge to squeeze something unbearably cute, like a chubby baby's cheeks. Tampo is that quiet sulking when someone hurts your feelings but you refuse to say why. In this episode, Kloe unpacks the Tagalog words that English borrows awkwardly or can't say at all, with stories from growi...

Learn Tagalog here ➡️ ⁠https://ling-app.onelink.me/Ue3y/q4211fss⁠⁠ Kumusta! It's the first word every Tagalog learner hears, and it already has a secret: it came from the Spanish ¿cómo está? and Filipinos made it our own. In this episode, Kloe walks you through the greetings she actually uses in Manila, from magandang umaga to the casual ba-bye! you'll hear between friends. You'll learn how to say...