I am Oliver Villaverde - Welcome to "Learn Tagalog-Filipino dot com Podcast" the podcast that will empower you to speak confidently with native Filipino speakers. In each episode, we provide extensive training and guidance to help you master the beautiful Tagalog language. We also offer personalized support through one-on-one voice calls with our experienced tutors. Start your journey to fluency today and unlock a world of cultural connection. If you're ready to take your language skills to ...
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Tagalog, which is mainly spoken in the Philippines, is one of the most beautiful languages in Asia. Writer and self-confessed language nerd Kris Andres wants to share that beauty with you. Whether you are visiting the country for business or pleasure, married or dating someone from the Philippines, an English-speaking Filipino trying to find their ethnic identity, or just trying to learn something new, this podcast is for you. It features lessons and exercises that would help you understand ...
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Welcome to Finding Tom's podcast, a show where I learn Tagalog, slowly, over the course of 12 months. I also talk pop-culture in the Philippines and take audience call-ins. Call in and tell me what to say in Tagalog! Learn a bit more about me and my co-host Lara. Every episode is 20 minutes long.
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Balitang thinking, hindi breaking. Teka Teka is the news podcast that takes its time to explain the issues you need to know. A PumaPodcast production. Join our community! Get podcast updates and exclusive event invites when you sign up for the PumaPodcast newsletter! http://eepurl.com/hGLcYn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Born and raised in different parts of the Philippines, a group of friends from Houston, TX, talks about life, family, relationships, food, childhood, current events and a lot more in between with Filipino humor. Informal and mostly comedy, Texalog is more of like your buddy during heavy traffic, road trips, workout session, Mondays (or any day), cooking, or pretty much whenever you need someone to talk to (or listen to), you are always welcome to join our kulitan, asaran at kalokohan! You ma ...
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They came before Jollibee - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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Vasectomy in PH: From Drew Arellano to Brix Tino, more Filipino men are taking part in family planning
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15:14Vasectomy is still uncommon in the Philippines, but that may be starting to change. Recently, writer Brix Tino won First Prize for Sanaysay at the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for his essay “Ari,” where he shares why he chose to get a vasectomy at just 22 years old. And earlier this year, TV host Drew Arellano was praised by the Commission on Pop…
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Learning Tagalog in New York: Fil-Ams reconnect with their roots in Little Manila
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5:08What does learning Tagalog mean to second- and third-generation Filipino Americans? PumaPodcast reporter Maria Reyes joins New York University students on an immersion trip to Little Manila, Queens, where they practice the language with shop owners and reconnect with their heritage. Their stories reveal how language loss, shame, and identity shape …
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Three years later, the DTI still says ₱500 is enough for Noche Buena
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11:32It’s 2025, and the DTI is once again insisting that a ₱500 Noche Buena is possible—sparking déjà vu from the same debate three years ago. So we’re bringing back that earlier episode to revisit the original uproar and explore what the ₱500 Noche Buena tells us about affordability, holiday spending, and the cost of living in the Philippines. This epi…
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Kuha: Your Guide to Getting, Taking, and More -at - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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National Book Week: Why the Philippines has a reading crisis
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21:29Why do so many Filipino children struggle to read and what does that say about the state of education and literacy in the Philippines today? In this National Book Week episode, we revisit our conversation with Gillian Reyes of the National Book Development Board (NBDB) to unpack the country’s growing reading crisis. From lack of access and rising b…
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Filipino restaurant wins 2 Michelin Stars - get the Vocab from the episode of Helm Restaurant - at - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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How the US–China rivalry is playing out in Philippine social media
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34:16The Philippines has become one of the most active frontlines in the growing US–China information war, where digital influence operations, propaganda campaigns, and soft power tactics are shaping public opinion, politics, and national security. In this episode, we speak with Reuters correspondents Poppy McPherson and Karen Lema about their investiga…
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Pag-ibig - Tula - Poem of Jose Corazon De Jesus
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Lyrics of the Song for Rizal [learntagalogfilipino.com]
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Maguindanao Massacre: How one woman’s courage helped convict the Ampatuans
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12:09Sixteen years after the Maguindanao Massacre, one of the deadliest attacks on journalists in history, Teka Teka revisits one of the most haunting stories from Super Evil: A Beautiful Place to Die Season 2. This special feature brings back “The Cellphone,” the powerful minisode about Atty. Cynthia Oquendo-Ayon, one of the 58 victims murdered on Nove…
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Love - Poem - Pag ibig - Tula ni Jose Corazon De Jesus [learntagalogfilipino.com]
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Military historian Jose Custodio on pro-China propaganda, pro-Duterte influence networks, and the 2028 elections
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51:45Regine Cabato sits down with military historian Jose Custodio to unpack the rise of pro-China propaganda on Filipino social media and how these narratives intersect with the politics of the Marcos administration and the Duterte camp. Custodio explains where fearmongering about military coups comes from, why influencers echo Beijing’s lines on the W…
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Tagalog Filipino Level Test [learntagalogfilipino.com]
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Remembering Juan Ponce Enrile (1924–2025) | 100 Years of JPE and the Philippines (Part 2)
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37:58With the passing of Juan Ponce Enrile at 101, we revisit the story of a man whose influence shaped—and survived—every major turn in modern Philippine politics. In this rerun of the second and final part of our special series on JPE, we trace how he moved from the center of power under Ferdinand Marcos Sr. to the front lines of the 1986 People Power…
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Remembering Juan Ponce Enrile (1924–2025) | 100 Years of JPE and the Philippines (Part 1)
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26:20Juan Ponce Enrile, one of the most powerful, influential, and controversial figures in modern Philippine history, has died at 101. In this rerun of our special series on JPE, we look back on the extraordinary life of a man whose story spanned dictatorship, revolution, and democracy — and who served across administrations from Ferdinand Marcos Sr. t…
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Words used in a cafe in the Philippines - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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From stigma to hope: The role of media in mental health conversations
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46:25How does the media shape the way we think and talk about mental health? Hannah Tasarra sits down with Roy Dahildahil and Richardson Mojica of MentalHealthPH to talk about how news outlets, social media, and content creators can help change the narrative around mental health and suicide in the Philippines. They discuss what responsible reporting loo…
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Slang word for show off / attention seeker in Tagalog-Filipino - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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Roll the dice: Why Filipino adults are falling in love again with tabletop games
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26:11In an age of screens and solitude, Filipino adults are rediscovering the joy of gathering around a table: to play, tell stories, and roll some dice. In this episode of Thought Bubbles, we talk to gamer and storyteller Lanz Frago about the growing tabletop games community in the Philippines, why it’s not just for kids (or nerds), and how these games…
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Masbate Stone House Episode - Learn Tagalog Filipino dot com
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An Episode about Laufey - [LearnTagalogFilipino.com]
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The hidden curriculum: Why students with ADHD struggle in traditional classrooms
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52:06Teacher Grace Osio, Board Member of World Vision Philippines and a longtime advocate for inclusive education, joins host Hannah Tasarra to unpack what ADHD really is — a condition of regulation, attention, and processing, not misbehavior. Together, they discuss how hyperactivity and inattention can be misunderstood, how classroom structures can uni…
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Where - Nasaan and Saan - Learn Tagalog Filipino.com
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Cristina Chi on fake news, foreign influence, and the Mindanao secession narrative
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42:43PhilStar.com reporter Cristina Chi joins Regine Cabato to unpack how foreign disinformation networks are exploiting real frustrations in the Philippines—turning them into viral calls for Mindanao secession and anti-Marcos narratives. Cristina reveals how Chinese-aligned social media accounts and bot networks helped spread false claims about Mindana…
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Let's Talk about Siling Labuyo - Chilli Pepper - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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Pangangaluluwa - Trick or Treat version in the Philippines
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Vocabulary - B - 22 - [LearnTagalogFilipino.com]
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What happens when fact-checkers disappear from the internet?
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27:08Meta scrapped its third-party fact-checking program. Google quietly removed its fact-checking features. What does this mean for misinformation, disinformation, and online safety? In this episode, journalist Nica Rhiana Hanopol speaks with Clara Jiménez Cruz, chair of the European Fact-Checking Standards Network and co-founder of Spain's Maldita.es,…
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Why we treasure art: Filipino artists, AI, and the future of collecting
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20:20The jewelry heist at the Louvre shows that some people will risk everything for things that sparkle and inspire awe with their beauty. In this re-run of a Thought Bubbles episode from March 2025, Bubbles Magpayo sits down with art collector and gallery owner Atty. Joseph “JT” Gonzales to explore where Filipino art is headed. They talk about Gen Z c…
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Study Tagalog-Filipino through video -250912 - ibon, usa, soro atbp. [Free PPT]
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Visible on the streets, invisible in the system: Bahay Tuluyan on the Philippines’ street children
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33:08TThousands of children in the Philippines live where everyone can see them — on sidewalks, under bridges, in jeepney terminals — yet the system barely knows they exist. In this episode, Bahay Tuluyan, a child-rights organization that has worked with street-involved children for nearly four decades, talks about what it really means to be visible but…
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Sino si Jose Rizal - get the PTT on Patreon [LearnTagalogFilipino.com]
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The human cost of disinformation: How fake news turns victims into peddlers
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36:51When fact-checkers dug into fake news flooding YouTube and TikTok, they found something deeper — ordinary Filipinos caught in a web of lies. In this episode, Regine Cabato speaks with Nikko Balbedina of PressONE.ph about the rise of “news cycle disinformation”—and how it turns victims into unwitting spreaders of falsehoods. Listen as they unpack ho…
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Apolinario Mabini’s La Revolucion Filipina: Lessons from the Brains of the Revolution
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11:51Who was Apolinario Mabini, really? Known as “The Sublime Paralytic” and “Brains of the Philippine Revolution” (Utak ng Himagsikan), Mabini shaped the course of the revolution through his sharp intellect, even as he lost the use of his legs to polio. In this episode, we revisit Mabini’s legacy through his posthumous work, La Revolucion Filipina. Wha…
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Kurakot - Corrupt [LearnTagalogFilipino.com ]
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Global game, Pinoy heart: Rafe Bartholomew on Philippine basketball culture
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1:12:11Nearly twenty years after he first got acquainted with Philippine basketball, American writer and Pacific Rims author Rafe Bartholomew returns to reflect on how the game—and the culture around it—has evolved. In this episode of Teka Teka hosted by Jaemark Tordecilla, Rafe talks about the Ateneo–La Salle rivalry that first drew him into the country’…
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Episode about Saatin Foundation - Learn words like -Adhikain – Layunin – Goal- Buklod – to bring together - Gitna – middle etc
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Is ‘Hear,’ 'Rinig,' or 'Dinig'? Which one is correct? Get the [PPT] on Patreon
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Mental health care in the Philippines: Stigma, language barriers, and telepsychiatry
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37:51Why do Filipinos still hesitate to seek help for mental health? Psychiatrist Dr. Nueva Joy Perucho talks to Hannah Grace about the realities of mental health care in the Philippines — the stigma, the silence, and the hope. From the rise of telepsychiatry to the importance of speaking in your mother tongue, this episode explores how compassion, cult…
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Kumusta - How are you? - get the PTT on Patreon [LearnTagalogFilipino.com]
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Nepal’s Gen Z protests: Corruption, Discord votes, and the fight for change
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Generations Ep. 08 From Rich to Wealthy: Money Lessons with Francis Kong and Eric Dee
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40:50What’s the difference between being rich and being truly wealthy? Gen Z host Angel Martinez sits down with Boomer Francis Kong — entrepreneur, author, and motivational speaker — and Xennial Eric Dee, COO of FooDee Global Concepts, for a multigenerational conversation on money mindsets. From Gen Z’s retail therapy or “budol” spending habits and the …
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Get / Take is Kinuha - LearnTagalogFilipino.com
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