Re: Anyone conversant in Tagalog here?

On Apr 10, 9:13 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Apr 7, 11:38 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:
On 6 huhti, 23:16, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 6, 9:18 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

On Apr 6, 3:39 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 6, 2:53 am, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

On Apr 5, 12:31 am, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4 Apr 2007 04:33:53 -0700, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

Can you recommend textbooks, or have you encountered anything
interesting when learning the language that you would like to point
out to a new learner?

You might have to find a source in the Philippines for a lot of books.
Probably due to limited interest outside the country.

That is surprising, given that Tagalog is the official language and
lingua franca of the country.

Really? Do you find much instruction in / interest in Finnish outside
Finland?

Apples and oranges. Finland is a sparsely populated country with the
biggest expat community in Sweden. Philippines has a sizable
population, and Tagalog is among the biggest expat languages in USA,

Um, so what? There's no interest in immigrant languages in the US,
where the Anglophone majority just wishes they'd all learn English or
shut up.

There is at least enough interest for US linguists and publishing
houses to produce dictionaries, textbooks, and grammars for many
immigrant languages.

Which publishing houses, and which languages?

Routledge, for example. But of course, if Routledge isn't American
enough by your lordship's criteria, I stand corrected.

I didn't see this until just now (Thursday night). Routledge isn't a
US publisher. They have a huge marketing operation in New York, but
all editorial decisions are made in London.

By the way, you could do us the favour of not interfering with threads
that evidently don't concern you. If you were genuinely interested in
knowing something about a language such as Tagalog, it would be OK for
you to participate, but at this stage it is quite obvious that you are
only interested in wisecracking in a way that will drown the original
topic. If you lack interest in Tagalog, you should at least have the
good taste and manners of not sabotaging the thread.

And you have the unmitigated gall to make personal remarks about _me_
to stray mathematicians who crosspost here??

Have you ever even been in an American bookstore?

I haven't ever even been to America - neither to the United States nor
to any part of the two continents called the Americas - let alone an
American bookstore. But I have been an active member of a mailing list
for learners of the Irish language, and I have gleaned from the
letters of the American members that in big cities with significant
Irish-American population it is relatively easy to get hold of a copy
of "Irish on your Own" or "Learning Irish".-

Of course. But not in a non-specialist bookstore. All over New York,
there are ethnic neighborhoods that specialize in importing materials
from their home countries. They usually have some shelves of books in
relevant languages, including grammars and textbooks, but you need to
know where to look.

.

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