The Peace Corps Language Learning Courses are a good place to start learning a foreign language. Since it was developed for the volunteers of the Peace Corps, you can be assured that all the lessons are practical and efficient. They have courses available to learn these Philippine languages: Tagalog, Ilokano, Cebuano, Bikolano and Ilonggo. And, best of all you can purchase them for only $17 each!
These HUGE Peace Corps Language Packets are in PDF Format so you can download and print them out, or just read them on your computer.
The materials in these courses were designed for the rapid language training of Peace Corps volunteers, focusing on daily communication needs. These courses contain:
- lists of common phrases, expressions, and vocabulary on a variety of topics related to Peace Corps work; a list of core competencies for specific topics (socializing, using language to manage learning, food, shopping, transportation, and health)
- An Extensive glossary
- a workbook containing exercises for each of the above topics, and
- Grammar notes corresponding to the preceding competencies and exercises.
- Appended materials include additional notes on grammar, syntax, morphology, negation, and common expressions.
- Only $17 for each language!
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Tagalog is widely spoken and is the language most understood in all the Regions of the Philippines.
Peace Corps Tagalog Language Packet $17
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Cebuano is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 20 million people. It is the most widely spoken member of the Visayan languages. Its name comes from the island of Cebu, the site of the second-largest metropolitan area in the country.
Peace Corps Cebuano Language $17
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Ilokano is the third most-spoken language of the Republic of the Philippines.
Peace Corps Ilokano Language Packet $17
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Hiligaynon (sometimes also known as “Ilonggo“) is spoken in Western Visayas in the Philippines. Hiligaynon is concentrated in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental. It is also spoken in the other provinces of the Panay Island group, such as Capiz, Antique, Aklan, Guimaras, and many parts of Mindanao like Koronadal City, South Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat and many parts of North Cotabato (It is spoken as a second language by Karay-a in Antique, Aklanon and Malaynonin Aklan, Cebuano in Siquijor, and Capiznon in Capiz.). There are approximately 7,000,000 people in and outside the Philippines who are native speakers of Hiligaynon, and an additional 4,000,000 who are capable of speaking it with a substantial degree of proficiency.
It is a member of the Visayan language family.
Peace Corps Ilongo Language Packet $17
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Bikolano is the language in the Central Philippines spoken particularly on the Bicol Peninsula on the island of Luzon and parts of Catanduanes and Burias Island, Masbate Province.
Peace Corps Bikolano Language Packet $17