Dilang Pinoy: Cebuano Words

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.

False friends

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.

Test yourself

A multiple choice test of 12, 24, 36 or 48 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

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 word list

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.

Save what you need

Star any word to keep it in your saved list, then study only those, test only those, or take them into Word Catch.

Both languages

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.

Hearing it

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.

Offline

Once the app has loaded, everything works without a connection, apart from the word illustrations, which are fetched as you go.

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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.