And we are back!

 Okay, Okay, I know it took as awhile to get going again but, here we are, WE ARE BACK! We are please to see that there are many people who are actually interested in learning the Ilokano Language.

So, let's recap what we've covered with our basics.

1. Greetings and Labels
2. Number Basics
3. Street Basics
4. Simple Prefixes
5. Common Phrases

So what's next?

To start us up gain, here's a little something base on the basics that we've given our so far.

When riding a bus in the Philippines, you have a driver and a conductor. The conductor will assign seating and also give you your ticket fare, they will have hole punches into you ticket to indicate the amount you will be paying base on your destination. Here's a little Ilokano Joke for you.  Try to keep up.

NOTE: Highlight the space under the lines and the English translation will appear.
Daytoy ket naaramid diay unig ti bus:

This happened inside the bus:

Konductor: Daytoy ni ti tiket mo madam.
Conductor: This is your ticket ma'am.
Madam: Manong, mano iti bayadak nga pasahek?
Ma'am: (Older brother), how much do I pay for my fare?
Konductor: Madam, kitaem ken basaem dayta tiket mo
Conductor: Ma'am, look and read your ticket.
Madam: Kasano ngay nga basaek daytoy ket inabut-abutam mettin.

Ma'am: How am I suppose to read this, you punch a lot of holes into it.

NGEK! ( It's like saying OMG! or LMAO but in a more dramatic way)

Now, many of you probably didn't get that joke but it's a start. Many Ilokano jokes are full of sarcasm and also many are deemed offensively perverted to westerners but all in good fun. We will stick with the cleaner jokes, of course.

Thank you to all our viewers and those who are actually looking forward to the new lessons coming up.

Agyaman kami la unay. (We thank you very much)

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