Tagalog is difficult for Malay-speakers to pronounce - here's why

Some of the features of Tagalog and other Philippine languages - in particular the lexical stress system and the verbal focus system - make them quite difficult and complex to learn.
This is a Malay-speaker's perspective of the pronunciation especially the differences between stressed and unstressed syllables which can make learning the language a complicated task.

In contrast, Malay has no stress distinction and has simplified the verb system (a long topic for another day).

The sound clips are from uTalk https://utalk.com/en/store an excellent tool for learning pronunciation and new vocabulary in over 150 languages including Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, Malay, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Samoan, Maori and lots more Austronesian languages.

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