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Tagalog Language Classes 2019
November 2 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am

Tagalog Language Classes 2019
Every Saturday, 9-11 AM
8 Sessions
November 2 – December 21, 2019
Dominican University College, Room 201
96 Empress Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1R 7G3
Please register online, it’s FREE!
www.pcc-ottawa.ca
Tagalog is the fastest-growing language in Canada. One of many reasons to learn Tagalog.
Philippines-based Tagalog is the fastest-growing language in Canada, with 64 per cent more Canadians calling it their first choice for conversations at home in 2011 compared with five years earlier.
The Globe and Mail
October 12, 2012
Canadians speaking more languages than ever before, Tagalog fastest-growing mother tongue.
Global News
August 2, 2017
Tagalog, Arabic and Urdu among fastest growing languages in Canada. Compared to 2006, the number of Canadian census respondents claiming Tagalog as their mother tongue grew by 83.1 per cent to 431,385.
Peninsula News Review
March 18, 2019
If learning Tagalog isn’t on your radar as one of the most helpful languages to speak, it should be. More than 50 million Filipinos speak Tagalog as a first or second language, and the standardized form of Tagalog, called Filipino, it is the national language of the Philippines. There are twenty-two million speakers of Tagalog in the Philippines, with large populations who speak the language in Canada, Guam, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. In the United States, more than 1.6 million people speak Tagalog, making it one of the most widely spoken languages besides English. According to research, it is the fifth most commonly spoken non-English language in American households, ranking just behind Spanish, French, Chinese, Hindi, and French.