Bøger i Cebuano Visayan serien

Learn modern Cebuano/Bisaya aka Visayan in 16 easy lessons. With this phrasebook, you can learn with confidence and pick up vocabulary. Every lesson will build up your knowledge gradually; words and phrases are repeated first with translation, then without, for maximum retention.

The Cebuano language has limited textbooks and literature. It's hard to learn a new skill without tools, or by just jumping in. With willpower, this book, updated as of 2018, will give you a good foundation on communicating with confidence. Learn modern Cebuano Visayan aka Bisayan in 25 lessons. Each lesson has phrases fully translated, with grammar notes, and more examples in a sentence. In this 2nd edition fully expanded you will learn: - Meeting people - Greetings - Asking for things - Simple conversation - Directions - When and what - Days of the week - Chatting - Personal questions - Further directions - At the market - Office talks - Accepting or declining - Visiting - Requests - Medical attention and expressing discomfort - Communication - Comments - Short Q&A - Remarks and ride talks - Time and weather - Colors and determiners of speech - Adj, verbs and common nouns - Being curious: chit-chatting - 'Just arrived' small talks.

Circa 1930 C.K. Ogden wrote Basic English. His idea was to give anyone a second language with a relatively short learning curve. Ogden researched words frequency and argued that is possible to communicate sufficiently with a basic vocabulary of 850 words. The author has found the list incomplete. Some essential words have been omitted and others are redundant for today's modern communication.What are we going to do with such a small vocabulary? Well, you probably heard the term verbose many times, usually a sign of trouble in communication. You won't be writing narrative at high level, but you will achieve a level of a standard speaker. The concept can be applied to any language. The goal in this book is to learn 800 words in Cebuano Visayan in 40 hours.Considering the fact that some linguist experts claim that 500 words are an absolute minimum, and unnecessary words are shades of meaning, we will use the 800 target. 500 words will be basic, 100 will be 'international', and the rest related to a general field--in our case travel or tourism.To speed up memorization we'll stress the importance of word pairs and opposites, then we'll add new words to the context already learned. This system will give you an opportunity to absorb the material gradually.Proven benefits.The book has been formatted with a minimalist design to reduce 'visual crowding' in an effort to sustain attention and improve comprehension. Hopefully, with passion and determination, and a combination of tools, you will reach your target.