Tulong!

March 15, 2010 1:05 PM

What are the best Tagalog-language blogs, novels, musicians, films, etc?

After a decade living state-side, I fear I'm starting to lose my mother tongue. I'm not around family right now so I can't simply speak the language with them so I'm turning to the next best option.

posted by apophenia to Grab Bag (3 answers total)

You can always get TFC and GMA (and an assortment of other Filipino stations) through your cable provider. Unfortunately I haven't found a place online that streams Wowowee or any of the novelas except through cable :( Many people use Multiply and Friendster instead of Facebook and MySpace in the Philippines. My favorite source for PI News is ABS-CBN and GMA. If you have any local Filipino grocery stores in your area they may carry the latest movies which you can rent and also some theaters in areas with large Filipino populations screen the new movies. You can google philippine blogs (there were a couple of blogs from Davao I used to read but have since lost the links). Overall, TFC and GMA television channels seem to offer the most up to date news, info, entertainment, music, and tsismis.
posted by MsKim at 1:17 PM on March 15, 2010

There's the ever-popular and occasionally racy Tagalog tabloid Abante, and the ABS-CBN news and talk AM radio station DZMM features a live stream. There are also Pinoy Tumblr users, like pakshet. (And while not in Tagalog, Indolent Indio has some good ivory-tower commentary on Pinoy politics and culture.)

Things I've linked may contain Tagalog profanity, btw.

(At heto, nandito kaming mga kababayan para makipag-usap kung minsan. Basahin mo na lang ang profile ko para maabutan mo ako sa Twitter.)
posted by brownpau at 2:35 PM on March 15, 2010

DZBB also has a live stream. I was a AA sa BB fan when Ali Sotto was there. I haven't tuned in for a long time though.
posted by onich at 3:05 PM on March 15, 2010