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Tagalog is one of the most pleasing languages to the ear I’ve heard.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University hosts SEAsite — a very neat project to “provide language instruction and other cultural, political, and social information about Southeast Asia”. Spend some time on their Tagalog page, which has a wide variety of information about the language, history and culture of the Philippines.

Ready to give it a go? I found these lessons available for download as MP3 files (and don’t have the ambition myself just yet, so let me know how it works out).

Prefer to keep looking? This is Baybayin, the characters used in written Tagalog before the Spanish invasion.