🇵🇭 Low Intermediate Tagalog – Online Class

For learners ready to move beyond beginner Tagalog and build more natural conversation skills.

📅 Course Dates

July 14th to August 18th
Format: Online via Zoom, small group
Schedule: Weekly sessions

👥 Who This Course Is For

This class is designed for students who have completed High Beginner Tagalog or have equivalent experience. Students should already be familiar with basic sentence patterns, common everyday vocabulary, actor-focus verbs, and present, past, and future tenses.

This course is the next step for learners who can already speak in simple sentences and are ready to build longer conversations, ask and answer more detailed questions, and navigate everyday situations in Tagalog with greater ease and confidence.

📖 What You’ll Learn

In this Low Intermediate Tagalog course, you’ll continue developing your speaking, listening, reading, and comprehension skills through practical, real-life topics. The class will focus on helping you move beyond memorized phrases into more flexible conversational exchanges.

Grammar will be introduced and reviewed as needed to support natural communication, with an emphasis on using Tagalog in everyday situations.

🌍 Themes and Topics May Include

• Shopping, dining out, and daily routines

• Asking for directions and giving instructions

• Describing people, places, and events

• Talking about past and future plans

• Asking and answering more detailed questions

• Using polite language and expressions of courtesy

• Building longer sentences and short dialogues

💬 What to Expect

Each class includes:

• Structured conversation practice

• Thematic vocabulary building

• Grammar review and expansion

• Light reading or listening exercises

• Cultural discussion points

• Review and reinforcement activities

✅ By the End of the Course, You’ll Be Able To

• Talk about daily life using more connected sentences

• Ask and answer common questions with greater confidence

• Participate in short conversations on familiar topics

• Handle everyday social interactions more naturally

• Recognize and use key grammatical structures with more ease

• Better understand the cultural context behind common Tagalog expressions

👩‍🏫 About the Instructor

Joy was born, raised, and educated in the southern Philippines, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts in Filipino. Before moving to the U.S., she worked as a public school language teacher. Since relocating, she has spent over a decade training military personnel and U.S. Foreign Service Officers in Tagalog through language services on the East Coast.

Her work has ranged from curriculum development and government consulting to standardized test creation—all with a passion for clarity, cultural immersion, and real-world application. Joy believes that language is not just a tool for communication, but a gateway to understanding people and the culture they live in.

💡 Important Notes

A minimum of three students is required for the course to run the full six weeks.

🏫 About the School

This course is offered by Polyglottist Language Academy.

We proudly serve students in Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and beyond—both in person and online.