Gina Gargoles

It is so much fun to learn with Gina. She adapts to my knowledge level and I make great progress with her. She is great at explaining and gives real life examples for me to learn. She also helps communicating with my family on the Philippines and I am very grateful for that.

Gina is a very caring and patient teacher, and she pays attention to what I want to learn. She's always happy to make great new original learning materials, and tailor her lesson style and topics from my requests. Her personality is warm and gentle and she's open to chatting about local lifestyle too. She helps me with pronunciation and language structure using practical sample sentences, which also impart some Philippines customs in our lesson.

Great lesson with Gina! We started with small talk about family and the holidays. After that, we read several stories that Gina had prepared. Gina asked me questions about different words from the story to make sure that I really understood it. Gina is very good at checking to see that I know the meaning and understand when words are similar or confusing!

I’ve had many Tagalog classes with Gina, and every single one has been a rewarding and enjoyable learning experience. Her lessons are clear, engaging, and tailored to my pace, making even difficult grammar easy to grasp. She’s patient, encouraging, and genuinely cares about my progress. My confidence in speaking Tagalog has grown so much thanks to her guidance. We also talked about local culture and lifestyle to help me understand more about the Philippines. Gina is also warm, friendly, and genuinely invested in their students’ progress. Her consistency and positive energy make every lesson something I look forward to. If you’re serious about learning Tagalog or preparing yourself for a trip, I highly recommend Gina.

Great lesson with Gina! We reviewed the sentences that we wrote during the last lesson, and Gina made sure that I understood what they mean. After that, Gina shared a picture about "gathering and eating together" and explained about family togetherness. We created some more sentences using a list of vocabulary words (some new, some that we already saw). It was a fun class and interesting to learn about the culture with Gina!

Great lesson with Gina! We read several short stories that Gina created. Gina explained each sentence and noted down the new vocabulary words. The stories had a good mix of vocabulary that we already learned and new vocabulary. We also talked about music and about school uniforms. It was another fun lesson with Gina!