Essential Tagalog

Travelers and professionals heading to the Philippines can use this compact Tagalog guide to get started before a trip and keep practicing once they arrive. It works as a beginner's introduction to the language, a phrasebook and an English-to-Tagalog dictionary, so readers can look up what they need on the spot. A pointing feature lets you show a Tagalog phrase to someone instead of speaking it aloud, which helps when your pronunciation is still shaky.

The book is designed for quick, practical learning. It aims to build reading, writing, speaking and listening skills without enrolling in a full language course. Its index makes it easy to move between the phrasebook and dictionary functions.

The volume belongs to Tuttle Publishing's Essential series, which also includes titles on Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Arabic.