Tagalog Tea Time: Learn with Kloe

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...