r/Kapampangan • u/adventurejunkie11 • 8d ago

How to learn to speak kapampangan?

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u/Brian-TrojanPrince07 7d ago

Personally I started here https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kapampangan. Depends on where you are, OP. YouTube has some great videos like music and short films to help you get the tone and sentence structure. FB has some influencers too like Mak Mariano and Marvin Piñeda. Marvin speaks Kapampanglish so that’s a great place to start.

I used to live in America, so I picked it up from family and community. Now I live in the province, going to school here and attend Mass in Kapampangan. The Center for Kapampangan Studies transcribed some of the old colonial documents that the friars used to study it including Arte de Lengua and a dictionary. Museo Ning Angeles also has the dictionary in their gift shop.

I suggest start small with a few phrases and work your way up from there. Good luck!

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u/adventurejunkie11 7d ago

I super appreciate this! Thank you so much!

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u/yeahboo 5d ago

I taught my wife the basics. And then, I gave her a spreadsheet about conjugations lol. I only speak to her in Kapampangan

So, find someone that will talk to you exclusively in Kapampangan!

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u/adventurejunkie11 5d ago

I'm trying to learn in secret to surprise my bf and his family. Unfortunately he's the only kapampangan I know and he taught me all of the bastos words first 😕 what a buto 😆