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What are the weak points to my spoken Tagalog.. like my grammar/

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Jan 23 2022, 8:25pm CST ~ 2 years, 2 mos ago. 
What are the weak points to my spoken Tagalog.. like my grammar/vocab/pronunciation/etc?

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Jan 24 2022, 8:49am CST ~ 2 years, 2 mos ago. 
@iloko
There are some grammar errors, but it’s understandable.
 
The accent is still pretty thick, and your speech is not very fluid yet. Have you tried maybe doing some shadowing type exercises to improve your accent? Often times you’ll pronounce your R’s like and American would. Many times you’ll over-pronounce your T’s or K’s. Spending some hours shadowing someone with a Filipino accent would probably help a great deal.
 
Also, a very specific point: you use “maganda” a lot, which is fine, but you often are saying “maGANda” with a stress on the middle syllable, when it should be on the last syllable, “maganDA” instead.
 
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