Dilang Pinoy

Dilang Pinoy is a picture dictionary and word trainer for Cebuano and Tagalog, made for Filipinos who already speak one and want to understand the other. Open it and a card is waiting: the Cebuano headword, its Tagalog and English meanings, an illustration drawn for that word, and an example sentence with its translation. Tap the card to hear it read aloud. It changes on a timer you set, from 5 seconds up to 10 minutes, or the moment you tap for the next one. Leave it open while you cook or commute and the vocabulary comes to you. 115 words carry a note for the places where Cebuano and Tagalog part ways. Cebuano langgam is a bird; Tagalog langgam is an ant. Cebuano aso is smoke; Tagalog aso is a dog. These are the words that let you think you understood when you did not, so they are marked wherever they turn up. When you want to know what stuck, take the test. It runs 12, 24, 36 or 48 multiple choice questions, drawn from the pool you pick: essentials, common words, everything, or only the words you saved. Four options, one right answer. At the end it lists every word you missed, and you can sit the test again on those alone. Word Catch is the quicker version. A word appears and you tap the matching translation before the timer runs out. Three lives, and a combo multiplier that climbs as long as you keep up. The whole list holds 5,097 words, each with an illustration. Search runs across Cebuano, Tagalog and English at the same time, so you can start from whichever language you already know, and you can narrow the list by any of 412 categories. Star anything worth keeping and it goes to your saved list, ready to study, to be tested on, or to take into Word Catch by itself. Choose Cebuano, which its speakers also call Bisaya or Binisaya, or Tagalog, as the language you are learning. Your saved words and your progress carry across when you switch. Text to speech reads every word and phrase aloud, choosing the closest available voice to Cebuano on your device, and you can slow it down to a learner's pace. Once the app has loaded, everything works without a connection, apart from the word illustrations, which are fetched as you go. Dilang Pinoy is supported by ads. In practice that means Tagalog speakers who want to follow what their Bisaya friends and in-laws are saying, and English speakers with Cebuano family who would like to understand more of what is said around the table.