New tourists' favorite destination : the beautiful Philippines and its known and little known facts plus conversational english, tagalog, ilocano, bicolano, cebuano, ybanag and gaddang dictionary / Gertrudes Bandong Dy-Liacco.

Philippines: its brief history and the melange of languages -- Known & little known facts about the Philippines -- Helping you use what this book offers -- Filipino grammar -- Tagalog grammar -- Ilocano grammar -- Conversational English, Tagalog and Ilocano dictionary -- Tagalog and Ilocano root words -- Bicolano, Cebuano, Ybanag, and Gaddang vocabularies.

Why This Book Is Unique This book reveals the paradise-like splendor found in the 7,107 islands of the Philippines and the character, nature, values, and customs of Filipinos. This book also outlines an uncomplicated but in-depth exploration of Filipino grammar to make it easier and simpler for the learner to form word and sentence constructions. The lexicon section of this book contains synonyms, correlations, similarities, and antonyms, making it more comprehensive and multifaceted than the other Filipino dictionaries in the market today. Also added in it are motivational topics and cautionary alerts. Previously and currently, most of the explanations and illustrations presented in this book have hardly been covered in other Filipino dictionaries written by other authors. The highlighting of the Spanish and English words in this dictionary can help increase proficiency or, at the least, familiarity with four languages, Tagalog, Ilocano, Spanish, and English, not to mention Bicolano, Cebuano, Ybanag, and Gaddang vocabularies that are added into this book. This book is an essential language reference book for all the libraries in the world. It also serves as a handy translation aid for foreigners doing business in the Philippines and for the foreign embassies that are based in the Philippines, as well as religious and medical missionaries, charitable institutions, language translators, tourists, foreign students enrolled in the Philippines, expatriates that settle in the Philippines, and anyone interested in learning about the Philippines and Filipino languages.