I haven't posted here in a long time, but I need to talk to more

Welcome to the Philippines, that's just how it goes. All that time spent yet unneeded.

Tagalog isn't even really the language of Baguio. They natively speak Ilocano there. Filipino was just something forced on them during school that they probably don't speak that well but consume media in.

@TomBaguio21 If you’d start a conversation with Filipinos in Tagalog, you would most likely see an expression of surprise or disbelief on their faces. That’s because most Filipinos would normally assume that a foreigner does not know how to speak Tagalog. For that reason, they would not talk to you in Tagalog unless you’d ask them to. Also, even if they have difficulty expressing themselves in English, they would bear that inconvenience rather than impose it on you. As AMBoy mentioned, Ilocano is the main language in Baguio; although many of them are able to speak and understand Tagalog. Just to be sure, you might have to ask them "marunong ka bang mag-Tagalog?" first.

Is there a place here to listen to Tagalog and speak and have your Tagalog speech rated, graded?

While Tagalog is spoken in Baguio, the city's lingua franca is Ilocano.You may get more help and enthusiasm and maybe discount price, hehe) if you'll learn Ilocano.Not everyone in Baguio and from Baguio are proficient in Tagalog either. Some Ilocano speakers (esp native Igorots) are more able to express themselves in English than Tagalog.Just go the the market, jeepney stops and you'll notice that most people speak with each other in Ilocano.I remember having a conversation with a "sekyu". His spoken Tagalog was poor, and my spoken Ilocano was poor. He spoke to me in Ilocano, I responded to him in Tagalog. We still understood each other though.You'll just have to adjust your expectations and "strategy"I have to add, the Tagalog spoken in Baguio is slightly different than standard Filipino given that locals use a lot of Ilocano words and sometimes Ibaloy and Kankanaey words like ngay, ngarod, adi, piman, ta, kwa, gamin, etc..in their TagalogSo yeah, temper your expectationsNext time, say "Naimbag nga aldaw" instead of Magandang Tanghali. People will be more thrilled. No one even uses magandang tanghali in Baguio. It's always the accented "gudapternun mamsir" or naimbag nga aldaw (formal occasions, usually)If you want to truly practice Tagalog, moving to Batangas/Cavite/Laguna/Rizal might be more ideal since these are the "core Tagalog territories".

@Juantutri I think this is largely because foreigners learning Tagalog is a new phenomenon. For a long time, it's always that foreigners expect Filipinos to speak to them in English.