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🌴 Learning Tagalog / Filipino Online Isn’t About New Words — It’s About Structure

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English is hiding underneath — but the sentence isn’t

Most students are surprised:
They already know hundreds of Tagalog words.
From English. From Spanish. From context.

But the sentence structure?
That’s where things get exciting.

Because in Filipino, the center of the sentence is the action — not the subject.
You don’t say “I eat rice.”
You build it from the verb, then the actor, then the object — or the other way around.

Welcome to focus-based grammar

Tagalog doesn’t ask “Who did it?”
It asks:
➡️ Which part of this sentence matters most?

That’s why you get:

• Actor-focus
• Object-focus
• Location-focus
• Beneficiary-focus

It’s not just grammar.
It’s perspective.
You don’t change the words. You change the point of view.

It’s not hard — it’s just not Western

If you speak English, Spanish, or French —
you expect verbs to follow people.
You expect actions to belong to doers.

But Tagalog flips that:
The action leads, and everything else responds.

That’s not difficult.
It’s just different.
And once your brain adapts —
you realize: this makes more sense than English ever did.

Learn Tagalog / Filipino Online — Step Into a New Way of Thinking

Learn to shift focus — not just translate words.

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🖋️ By Tymur Levitin

Founder & Head Teacher, Levitin Language School
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