Tagalog by Nemo Reviews

Great for learning key words and phrases

amdady

This app is great for learning words and phrases, but not so much with learning grammar and sentence structure. If you want to learn Tagalog composition, I recommend the Mango app. Besides this, my only other complaint is that the Tagalog speaker is really annoying to listen to. It sounds like she’s speaking out of her chest and makes her sound...mentally impaired. They could have found someone more pleasant to listen to for the Tagalog speaker.

Excellent for improving pronunciation and inflection

Another user 11111

I’m a non-Filipino who married a Filipina over 30 years ago. I learned to understand Tagalog over the course of many years through observing/listening to conversations and even bought a couple Tagalog dictionaries and textbooks along the way; however, mastering Tagalog in a world where Taglish and text shorthand prevails is practically impossible. I found Nemo Tagalog as I was looking for a translator app for my Apple Watch and decided to give it a try without much expectation for success. After using it, though, I have been able to vastly improve my diction through the use of the record/replay feature to compare my spoken pronunciation against the apps’s voice (I chose Alex). In fact, my Filipino colleagues are very impressed by the precise pronunciation and inflections of Alex’s voice, so I feel completely confident that I’m speaking correctly now. Maraming salamat po, Nemo!

Not much

Taglog master 103

This app is okay. You get a lot of words and phrases in Tagalog but also they leave a lot out. They also make you buy stuff if you want to learn new words than just the few they give you. You even have to buy to know nouns. Overall this app is okay, but if they take away the cost it would be awesome!!

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bruha :)

SANAYYY PAG IBIG NA LANG ANG ISIPINNN NANG BAWAT ISA SA MUNDOOOOO I haven’t tried the app yet but when I was looking at the pictures for this app and I saw pag-ibig I was like O.O!!! omg just like my old favorite showwww ;) but I meannn ay I heard it’s good I haven’t tried it out yet buttttt- FIVE STARS!

Marvelous‼️

Ann's Husband, Glen

Salamat so much for this high quality, well thought out app! It is such a blessing to this white guy married to a cherished Pinay! ??

Learning!

BenjaminBryan

Nice app, well worth it for starting- I do just a few minutes a day and I already know 100+ words after a month and I can recognize them in normal conversation. I upgraded to premium. One request: please make the temperature bar at the bottom of the screen bigger during playback drills. It’s a bit tricky to “grab” it without moving the whole flash card. Thanks!

Super useful for learning the basics!

asian_lumpia

If you’re looking to expand your Tagalog vocabulary, this app is a must! As a second generation Filipina who didn’t learn how to speak Tagalog as a child, this app is helping me so much in my language journey! The app is easy to use and it includes many words and phrases that I know I will need to use on an everyday basis. I haven’t even unlocked the entire app, but I feel like my Tagalog vocabulary has vastly expanded. The app is designed to slowly introduce new words/phrases as you cycle through a stack of words. This repetition is especially helpful for memorization and familiarity.

Missing a lot of words

Marty List

It's ok, but it's missing a lot of words that my friend who was born in the Philippines uses, like gwapong, aking, patay, and many other words that Google Translate knows. And why does the app hide the keyboard every time I clear the search phrase? So annoying to constantly tap in the Search box over & over. Very simple changes could make this app so much better.

Amazing - Very highly recommend

Jgwingfield

I’m marrying a Filipina and we are planning a trip to meet her family in the spring. I downloaded 5 different apps to help learn Tagalog in preparation, hoping to impress my new in-laws. A couple of them were barely usable and another two are really little more than dictionaries. This app blew me away with the amount of features and was of use. A few I’ve found most useful are, a practice player which introduces new words on a daily basis at a pace I can set. Right now I have it set to 6 but you can choose the number you’re comfortable with. Prior words are reviewed with the English word, then an automatic recording me saying the words, followed by a Tagalog speaker allowing me to compare my pronunciation. The player cycles through the words continuously for as long as you want. There is a temperature feature that indicates frequency of practice for each word so I can select what to focus on. There’s a reminder feature to prompt me each day to practice and tracks my progress. There is a long list of voices to choose from. Speed settings for the pronunciation. Ability to focus on words related to specific topics (e.g. food, dating, transportation, etc.). Really this probably the best language learning app I have used. Better than Duo Lingo, Rosetta Stone, Babble, etc. My fiancé is amazed how well my pronunciation has developed and we are able after a month’s use to hold some full conversations in Tagalog. Can not recommend this enough!

Brain exercise

twistedheathen

A trip to Pilipinas is in my future. Would probably be mabait to know some Tagalog. Understanding and being understood is mabuting - mabuti