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 learned many words with "i"/"in" and practiced them in past/present/future. We also learned about the "in"/"hin" suffix. It is interesting to see how a root word can change into different meanings by using a different prefix/suffix. Gina gives simple and accurate explanations!

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.

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.

I enjoyed the class! new words were introduced with context of when to use which is really helpful! very immersive as teacher Gina will use Tagalog as much as possible and explain it right after. I started the classes with no prior knowledge and was able to progress fast with the help of teacher Gina :) really recommend!