Gina Gargoles

I’ve a been a regular student of Tagalog with Gina . The more classes I take , the more I get amazed at Gina’s teaching skills . The classes are well structured , interactive and fun ! Gina is warm and encouraging and creates a safe environment to practice. She makes each lesson engaging with real life phrases and lots of cultural references. I’m totally in love with the Filipino culture and Gina makes it so easy to embrace the language learning process. If you’re someone who wants to learn Tagalog or maybe visit the Philippines ,I highly recommend that you learn Tagalog from Gina . It will be a rewarding experience!

I really appreciate how Gina is active about expanding my Tagalog vocabulary. It feels great to feel like I'm consistently 'leveling up' rather getting stuck with the same beginner materials aka 'tutorial hell'. Again, my Tagalog knowledge is steadily refining and I'm super thankful for that!

Great lesson with Gina! We continued learning about verbs using the "in/hin" prefix. We translated several example sentences using this prefix. Gina also explained where the verbs are irregular, and which pronouns to use with the "in/hin" verbs, which was very helpful!

Gina is a very caring and patient teacher, and she pays attention to what I want to learn. She's always happy to make great new original learning materials, and tailor her lesson style and topics from my requests. Her personality is warm and gentle and she's open to chatting about local lifestyle too. She helps me with pronunciation and language structure using practical sample sentences, which also impart some Philippines customs in our lesson.

Gina did a fantastic job providing me feedback on my current level of Tagalog since our first lesson. She has given me a lot of confidence and encouragement. Despite this being our second lesson, Gina has already identified what my strengths are and knows where I can improve. It is such a pleasure being able to practice my Tagalog with her.

It has been a while since I tried a new Tagalog italki teacher and I decided to have a lesson with Gina. My first lesson with her was absolutely amazing! She did her research with assessing my level based on my profile and went straight into speaking Tagalog with me the entire lesson. Gina led our conversation with introductions about ourselves and then we had a variety of topics ranging from politics in the Philippines, to my recent trip in the Philippines, and discussing delicious delicacies I had never heard of before. I am looking forward to practicing and learning from Gina in the near future.