English Language Course Books for Filipinos

NYC-DXB-DOH
By NYC-DXB-DOH

Hi,

I would like to help my son's nanny to improve her English so that when we leave Qatar one day she can command higher pay or have more work opportunities. Does anyone know where I can buy a good course book (not in-person lessons) designed for Tagalog speakers looking to improve their English? She already speaks and writes basic English, so I would be looking for an intermediate course book. I've searched the web and called embassies to no avail. Batam salamat!

By flor1212• 28 Feb 2012 07:22
flor1212

aside from the widely-use Tagalog, look for that English-native dialect dictionary!

By flor1212• 28 Feb 2012 07:21
flor1212

just buy her an English-Tagalog Dictionary!

By NYC-DXB-DOH• 27 Feb 2012 23:26
NYC-DXB-DOH

Not degrading at all. The more languages you know, the better. In the meantime, I am also working on learning a little Tagalog myself - it's a fun language! Anyway, if anyone could please answer the question I would very grateful!

By flanostu• 27 Feb 2012 21:54
flanostu

google translate

By Chris_uel• 27 Feb 2012 21:45
Chris_uel

I think what they are trying to say is that by learning another language the are degrading their own language.

Which doesn't make any sense at all. I thought knowledge is power and such and I think the original poster is being very considerate in trying to help to improve this person's prospects.

So degrading nationality? Is your native tongue English insister? If not, why did you 'degrade' your nationality and answer in English???

By anonymous• 27 Feb 2012 21:28
anonymous

insister, degrading? seems, off tangent.. kindly expound on this,,, thanks..

By insister• 27 Feb 2012 21:04
insister

What is this? Another trend of degrading nationality!

By flor1212• 27 Feb 2012 16:55
flor1212

just communicate with her in proper English and she will learn it by time. Ask her not to use any other language while talking to your child/ren so she will be "force" to speak in English only. And lend her the newspaper after you finish reading it. It will help a lot. Good afternoon.

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