Student Portal

Be guided through Aralin World Student Portal—your roadmap for mastering Tagalog through multi-media tutorials, quizzes, and worksheets. Join our self-paced learning program!

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Tulóy ka dito sa Portal mo! (Welcome to your Portal). Here is your step by step guide to your success in Tagalog language:

Set your intention.
Know your teacher.
Learn Basic Tagalog.
Test your basic knowledge.
Receive feedback.
Learn Basic Grammar.
Reinforce your Basic Tagalog.
Learn Intermediate Tagalog.
Reinforce Your Intermediate Tagalog.
Test your Intermediate Tagalog.
Develop the determination to succeed.
Repeat #5. Receive feedback.

Set Your Intention

Stay focused every time you study Tagalog. Start this hour by setting your intentions first. See the bookmark below, be guided on how to set your intentions, and do not forget to download and print the worksheet. It is FREE for all, whether you are a member or just a curious passer by.

Know Your Teacher

There are various ways to know your teacher but the best path to that is by subscribing to her Newsletters. She writes at least once a week.

There has been a few materials of Albine talking about herself. Check it out. Have you visited this site's About Page? Please do not skip it.

Your teacher will appreciate hearing from you! She will read your message and will reply to it as soon as she can. Here is the Contact Page.

If you are new in Aralin World, you can book a 30-minute Discovery Call– no charge with the teacher. Your inputs are valuable to her so she can see what kind of contents need to be created based on your personal needs.

Learn Basic Tagalog

Follow the bookmarks below if you prefer a self-paced learning. This linear program is carefully designed for learners with zero knowledge in Tagalog.

Do not forget to leave a comment on each and every tutorials here at Aralin World website. That way, your teacher can keep track of your progress.

Cover Page:

Day 1. Introduction to Filipino Alphabet

Day 2. Basic Greeting & Responses

Day 3. Filipino Family & Community Relationships

Day 4. Tagalog Numbers

Day 5. Issuing Commands & Suggestions

Day 6. Days, Months, and Time Expressions

Day 7. I, You, They, and More Pronouns

Day 8. Directions & Places

Day 9. Simple Questions & Answers

Day 10. Feelings And Adjectives

Day 11. (Available soon)

Day 12. (Available soon)

Day 13. (Available soon)

Day 14. (Available soon)

Test Your Basic Knowledge

This is a reminder for you to answer all the quizzes and prescribed essays given after each lessons. It is best if you download the worksheets, print them, work on it in material form. Here at Aralin World, you are encouraged to embrace the old way of writing and learning.

Self-evaluate regularly. What percentage of the learning outcomes have you achieved?

Receive Feedback

Aralin World is accountable to your Tagalog journey. The best space to get feedback from your teacher is through calls. Join our FREE group coaching every Saturday at 11:00 AM, East Coast time.

Our Contact Page is another avenue especially if you wish to send your message privately.

Learn Tagalog Basic Grammar

Reinforce Your Basic Tagalog

Continue learning. Get cultural insights while expanding your vocabulary list including common phrases. Seasonal events are a good opportunity for that.

Practice, practice, practice. Practice hard in and out of your study room! Remember and apply the lessons presented in General Tagalog series.

Learn Intermediate Tagalog

Here is a linear approach to mastering Tagalog verbs:

Lesson 1. What is a verb?

Lesson 2: Sentence Structures

Lesson 3: Affixes Used to Form a Verb

Lesson 4: Voluntary and Involuntary Actions

Lesson 5: Impersonal Verbs

Lesson 6: Intransitive Verbs

Lesson 7: Reflexive & Transitive Verbs (available soon)

Lesson 8: Expressing Ability or Possibility (available soon)

Lesson 9: Expressing Beneficial Action (available soon)

Lesson 10: Expressing Reciprocity (available soon)

Lesson 11: Active Voice (available soon)

Lesson 12: Passive Voice (available soon)

Reinforce Your Intermediate Tagalog

Discover commonly used root words and learn how to conjugate them.

Test Your Intermediate Knowledge

Develop The Determination To Succeed

How will you keep me motivated?

Our community comprises of matured individuals. Your teacher loves nurturing her students but she can not motivate you all the time. She pays more attention to solving niched problems and just willing to design and deliver tools through Aralin World domain. She built this website to deliver solutions and to express her creativity.

Therefore, please do not wait for external motivation. Return to Step 1: Set your intention and see what matters most.

What best practices will I adapt?

You are resourceful and self-reliant that is why you came to Aralin World. Step up and follow these:

Use notebooks, the physical ones. It is best to write your vocabulary, phrases, and example sentences on a sheet of paper. As you move your hand into writing, your brain picks it up easily. You want your sub-conscious to work with you, you want your new skill to be a second nature to you.
Use your Tagalog frequently. Make a mental note or jot down all the things that surround you, in your target language. Those things you see as you open your eyes in the morning, things you see outside, things you see at work or at school.
Use your Tagalog again. Write as many action words that you do. Things you did yesterday, what you are doing in the present time, and things that you plan for the next day.
Each week, read your notes aloud. Read them aloud repeatedly and try to say them with correct pronunciation. Record what you say, record yourself in audio or video.
Leave a comment on each and every posted tutorials here at Aralin World.
Find a language partner. Best if your partner is a native speaker. Establish a question and answer game.

How difficult or easy is Tagalog?

As you build your Tagalog vocabulary you would realize that you need more than that. You are conscious of your pronunciation. You do not know how to produce the glottal stop. There are words with one spelling but not just one meaning. You try to translate using a dictionary or a software but it does not work for you, and for the people you wish to speak with. You ended up:

Confused and lost.
Afraid to speak.
Undecided to learn more.

Tagalog language is not easy especially if you are coming from the Western culture.

What if I'm almost giving up?

Do not stop! Find a teacher that fits you. A teacher who would walk you through these challenges or find a space where you will achieve these learning outcomes:

To construct simple sentence with correct format.
To distinguish between actor focused and object focused verbs.
To conjugate the verbs and use them in proper tenses.
To understand the verb-pronoun agreements and apply them in your daily conversation.
To use particles correctly.

Here at Aralin World, the courses are designed and created to address your frustrations: Upgrade Your Membership here.

Here at Aralin World, people connect with a purpose. You have a curriculum that is customizable according to your needs. Start the conversation with your teacher so she will know your strengths and weaknesses and so she figure out how to help you better. She is never transactional, in fact she can over deliver. Once rapport is developed, you find a family here.

Should you sign up for Continuing Tagalog Program, you will be a person with:

Confidence in speaking Tagalog. You will be able to express your daily life situations with minimal mistakes.
Compassion with yourself and others. You are fluent but you are still grounded. You will understand a lot of Filipino culture: both its pleasant and unpleasant ones.
Knowledge in navigating the Philippines. You will have a better understanding of various places, where to shop, or how to take various forms of transportation because you will be able to gather local information by yourself. You will know how to ask questions in Tagalog and you will have the courage to speak with the Filipino locals.

Growing your Tagalog is valuable that is why you put your trust in Aralin World by returning here as a member...

But if better communication and relationship with your Filipino family or friend is your concern, then you might also be interested in any of the offer under Entry Level Program, delivered via call one on one. See details below: