Gina Gargoles

I’ve a been a regular student of Tagalog with Gina . The more classes I take , the more I get amazed at Gina’s teaching skills . The classes are well structured , interactive and fun ! Gina is warm and encouraging and creates a safe environment to practice. She makes each lesson engaging with real life phrases and lots of cultural references. I’m totally in love with the Filipino culture and Gina makes it so easy to embrace the language learning process. If you’re someone who wants to learn Tagalog or maybe visit the Philippines ,I highly recommend that you learn Tagalog from Gina . It will be a rewarding experience!

I really appreciate how Gina is active about expanding my Tagalog vocabulary. It feels great to feel like I'm consistently 'leveling up' rather getting stuck with the same beginner materials aka 'tutorial hell'. Again, my Tagalog knowledge is steadily refining and I'm super thankful for that!

I really appreciate how Gina is a very kind and respectful teacher. She works very hard to ensure her students walk away learning something new and insightful in her lesson. She is very receptive to questions you ask and it is always fun learning about her experiences and Filipino culture.

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 learned about the "pag" prefix. Gina also asked me several questions to check my understanding of "mag" and "um" prefixes. Since the prefixes can change the meaning or usage of a root word, they are very important and Gina wants to make sure I know how they work!

Gina is an excellent teacher. She is very attentative and supportive, and you can tell that she genuinely wants her students to succeed. The lessons are fun while still being informative, and I have been learning a lot!