Tagalog Stories for Language Learners: Folktales and Stories in Filipino and English (Free Online Audio)

by Joi Barrios

Overview

The most enjoyable way to learn about a new culture is through its stories—especially when they're told in two languages!

This book introduces 40 stories from the Philippines through bilingual Tagalog and English texts presented on facing pages. Paired with cultural notes, vocabulary lists, exercises, comprehension questions and free online audio recordings, Tagalog Stories for Language Learners is an excellent resource for intermediate language learners, or those who wish to pick up a bit of Phlippine cultural knowledge.

This compilation includes a mix of traditional folktales retold for a modern audience, as well as several well-known works of contemporary Philippine literature. Along the way, you will meet fabulous mythological characters like the Bagobo goddess Mebuyan and the shape-shifting Aswang. Other characters cope with day-to-day issues, such as the domestic worker who cannot find her keys and a beauty queen who leaves behind her comfortable city life in order to help peasants in the countryside.

Four of the stories are by well-known Filipino writers and are presented in complete or partially condensed form. These include:

• Estrangheritis by Inigo Ed. Regalado (1907) — The writer is critical of Filipinos who exalt all things foreign while, in fact, benefitting from their own land but unappreciative of their national culture.
• Desire by Paz Latorena (1928) — The story of a Filipino woman who has to deal with the narrow-mindedness of a foreigner who is far more interested in her body than in her personality.
• Greta Garbo by Deogracia Rosaro (1930) — Monina, who looks like Greta Garbo, plans a weekend getaway with her beau, only to be left at the station waiting, and later discovers he has gone on a honeymoon!
• Maria Elena Paterno's Sampaguita (1991) —Two popular legends about the Sampaguita (Philippine jasmine flower) which touch on the themes of courage and forbidden love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780804845564
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	11/23/2021
Series:	Stories for Language Learners
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Joi Barrios teaches Filipino language and literature at UC Berkeley. After completing her Ph.D. in the Philippines, she taught in Japan, at UCLA, and UCI then served as Associate Dean of the UP College of Arts and Letters in Manila. She is the author of over a dozen books including Tagalog for Beginners, Intermediate Tagalog and three collections of poetry. She has won over a dozen national literary awards, a Distinguished Teaching Award from UCB, and three lifetime achievement awards—a "Weaver of History" (one of 100 women selected by the Philippine Centennial Committee); a TOWNS (Ten Outstanding Women in the Nation's Service) Award; and the National Balagtas Lifetime Achievement Award for Poetry in Filipino.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Beginning Level Stories

The Keys 16

Ang mga Susi

Why the Bat Has No Friends 20

Kung Bakit Walang Kaibigan ang Paniki

Father 24

Tatay

The Legend of the Guava 28

Alamat ng Bayabas

Snake 32

Ahas

Why the Sky Is High 36

Kung Bakit Mataas ang Langit

The Woman Who Feeds Birds 40

Ang Babaeng Nagpapakain sa mga Ibon

Juan Tamad and the Rice Cakes 44

Si Juan Tamad at ang mga Bibingka

My Friend the Cat 48

Ang Kaibigan Kong Pusa

Journey 52

Biyahe

The Adarna Bird 56

Ang Ibong Adarna

Going to Sagada 60

Papuntang Sagada

Suspicion 64

Suspetsa

Maria of Makiling 70

Si Maria ng Makiling

Stepmother 74

Madrasta

Intermediate Level Stories

Mebuyan, the Goddess with Many Breasts 80

Si Mebuyan, ang Diyosang Maraming Suso

Why There Are Many Tamarind Trees 84

Kung Bakit Maraming Puno ng Sampalok

The Web in Her Eyes 88

Ang Sapot sa Kanyang mga Mata

I Am So Stupid!-The Story of the Peasant and the Landlord 92

Napakatungak ko!-Ang Kuwento ng Magbubukid at ang Panginoong-Maylupa

Why the Cashew's Nut Is Outside Its Fruits 96

Kung Bakit Nasa Labas ang Buto ng Kasoy

The Woman in Barrio San Andres 100

Ang Babae sa Baryo San Andres

The President Who Had Horns 104

Ang Presidenteng Nagkasungay

The Virtue of the Coconut 108

Ang Katangian ng Puno ng Niyog

The Legends of the Ylang-Ylang 112

Mga Alamat ng Ilang-Ilang

Mistress 120

Kerida

The Story of Mambucal Falls 124

Ang Kuwento ng Talon ng Mambukal

The Woman Who Was Always Widowed 128

Ang Babaeng Palaging Nabibiyuda

The Wak-wak Queen of Mt. Diwata 132

Ang Wak-wak Queen ng Bundok Diwata

The Changing Story of the Strong and the Beautiful 138

Ang Nagbabagong Kuwento nina Malakas at Maganda

Advanced Level Stories

The White Lady at Balete Drive 144

Ang Babaeng Nakaputi sa Balete Drive

Felipe's Cat 148

Ang Pusa ni Felipe

Desire 154

Pagnanasa

Why the Crow Is Dark 162

Kung Bakit Maitim ang Uwak

Juan Pusong and the Chief 166

Si Juan Pusong at ang Pinuno

Queen of the Sea 172

Reyna ng Dagat

Greta Garbo 176

Greta Garbo

Two Stones: The Disease of Estrangement, 1907, and the Disease of Estrangement in the New Millennium 182

Dalawang Kuwento: Estrangheritis 1907, at Estrangheritis sa Bagong Milenyo

Two Sampaguita Legends 194

Dalawang Alamat ng Sampaguita

Sampaguita 202

Sampaguita

Glossary 212

Tagalog-English Dictionary 216

Bibliography 222