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Four ways to learn these languages by using them rather than reading about them. All free, no account, and they keep working offline once loaded.
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- Guess the language1,634 phrasesRead a phrase and name which of the eight languages it is. The Bisayan three are the hard part.
- False friends47 trapsAso is a dog in Tagalog and smoke in Cebuano. The words that mean something else one island over.
- Practise vocabulary3,136 wordsMultiple choice over everyday vocabulary, in any of the eight languages, grouped by topic.
- Write in BaybayinPre-colonial scriptType anything and see it in the script these languages used before the Spanish arrived, syllable by syllable.
Everything here comes from the same data
No question is written for a quiz. Every phrase, word and trap is a row in the phrasebook or the comparison guides that the rest of the site is built on — so anything you learn here will agree with what you find elsewhere on it, including the caveats.
Most entries are compiled from published references and still pending native-speaker review. The methodology page says what that means. These are games against a cited reference, not against a dictionary.
The Baybayin writer is the exception, and a different kind of thing. It draws on no phrase data at all — it is a character mapping against the Unicode Tagalog block, so it converts whatever you type rather than looking anything up.
Languages covered
Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Waray, Bikol, Kapampangan, Pangasinan — the same eight throughout. Tagalog is well served elsewhere; Waray, Kapampangan and Pangasinan are not, which is most of the reason these exist.