TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barrios, Joi,
AU  - Salvatus,Mark Ramsel N.
TI  - Tagalog stories for language learners: folktales and stories in Filipino and English 
SN  - 9780804845564
AV  - GR325 .B377 2021
U1  - 499/.21186421 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Tokyo ; Rutland, Vermont : 
PB  - Tuttle Publishing, 
KW  - Tagalog language materials
KW  - Bilingual
KW  - Tagalog language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - English speakers
KW  - Tales
KW  - Philippines
KW  - Short stories
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes audio access; Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-223); Introduction -- I: Beginning Level Stories -- The keys -- Why the bat has no friends -- Father -- The legend of the guava -- Snake -- Why the sky is high -- The woman who feeds birds -- Juan Tamad and the rice cakes -- My friend the cat -- Journey -- The adarna bird -- Going to Sagada -- Suspicion -- Maria of Makiling -- Stepmother -- II: Intermediate level stories -- Mebuyan, the goddess of mnay breasts -- Why there are many tamarind trees -- The web in her eyes -- I am so stupid! -- the story of the peasant and the landlord -- Why the cashew's nut is outside its fruit -- The woman in Barrio San Andres -- The president who had horns -- The virtue of the coconut -- The legends of the ylang-ylang -- Mistress -- The story of Mambucal Falls -- The woman who was always widowed -- The wak-wak queen of Mt. Diwata -- The changing story of the strong and the beautiful -- III. Advanced level stories -- The white lady at Balete Drive -- Felipe's cat -- Desire -- Why the crow is dark -- Juan Pusong and the chief -- Queen of the sea -- Greta Garbo -- Two stories: the disease of estrangement, 1907, and the disease of estrangement in the New Millennium -- Two sampaguita legends -- Sampaguita -- Glossary -- Tagalog-English dictionary -- Bibliography
N2  - This book introduces 40 stories from the Phillipines in parallel Tagalog and English versions presented on facing pages. Each story has cultural notes, vocabulary lists, exercises, comprehension questions and online audio recordings by a native speaker as well as an illustration
ER  -