Brian
Maikli Magandang araw! Ako si Brian, at galing ko sa Hong Kong. Simulat ako ng Filipino noong isang linggo, at gusto kong magtuto siya, pahil ako nagrinig marami Filipino mula pagkabata ko! Maraming salamat
Aug 31, 2015 3:20 PM
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Maikli = short

 

Isang maikling ulat/sulat = A short note (Though “ulat” usually means something like “a news report” and “sulat” means “letter”, when used in this sense, we would interpret it as “note”. “Tala” means “a journal entry”, but the word is very rarely used. You will more often just encounter it in “talaan”, the word for journal or diary. “Note” may be translated as “nota” in Tagalog, but it almost always means a musical note.)

 

Magandang araw! Ako si Brian, = Good day! I am Brian,

 

at galing ako sa Hong Kong = and I came from Hong Kong (you arrived recently, coming from Hong Kong)

at ako ay taga-Hong Kong = and I am from Hong Kong (you are originally from Hong Kong)

 

Simulat = ?;  Simula = beginning/start;  Sumulat = to write

Nagsimula ako ng Filipino noong isang linggo = I began/started Filipino last week.

Nagsimula akong mag-aral ng Filipino noong isang linggo = I began/started to learn/learning Filipino last week.

Sumulat ako = I wrote

Sumulat ako sa Filipino noong isang linggo = I wrote in Filipino last week

 

at gusto kong magtuto siya (“tuto” uses the prefix “ma” and not “mag”)

at gusto kong matutunan siya/ang Filipino = and I would like to learn it/Filipino (object focused)
at gusto kong matuto nito/ng Filipino = and I would like to learn it/this/Filipino (subject focused)

 

pahil = ?; dahil = because

dahil marami akong naririnig na salitang Filipino mula noong bata pa ako = because I have been hearing a lot of Filipino words since I was still young. (This would be the more natural way to say it.

“...mula sa pagkabata ko” (starting from my childhood) is also OK, but rarely would we say it that way.)

 

Maraming salamat = Many thanks = Thank you very much

September 3, 2015
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Brian
Language Skills
Arabic (Egyptian), Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Cantonese), French, German, Persian (Farsi), Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Learning Language
Arabic (Egyptian)