Salitaan

Maglaro. Matuto ng Tagalog. Salitaan is a barangay of ten word games for learning Tagalog, drawn like a Filipino komiks. Each game is a place in the neighborhood, and each one is built on how Tagalog actually works: syllables, not letters; affixes you slide into a word; verb forms you steer a jeepney by; a script you paint with a brush. THE TEN GAMES • Tumbang Tsinelas – hear the word, knock down its picture with a slipper, in the kanto, the mall and the city • Sipa Syllables – kick the sipa once for every pantig • Sari-Sari Store – the customer asks in Tagalog, you fill the basket • Jeepney Rush – kumain, kumakain, kakain: put the kid on the jeepney marked kahapon, ngayon or bukas • Singit! – slice a fruit-stand word open where UM, IN, MAG or MA squeezes in • Bahay Kubo Garden – plant the song, one vegetable at a time • Bugtong of the Day – Lola reads a new riddle every day; pick the…