Learn Cebuano

Offering Classroom & One-On-One Personalized Instruction

Learn Cebuano from a Cebuano / Visayan Language Expert
with over 20 years experience in language teaching

If you have tried to learn Cebuano from the available books and native speakers you know how difficult and frustrating it can be. The books can teach you to memorize phrases and enable to build a reasonable vocabulary but DO NOT teach you how to compose sentences.

Cebuano is a spoken language learnt from childhood and not studied in school, therefore, most native speakers will know what sounds correct but lack a grammatical understanding to be able to explain it to a non-Cebuano speaker. Even highly educated Cebuanos including teachers have difficulty teaching their language to a non-Ceubano.

Our Cebuano Language instruction provides the glue to put it all together in a way that is logical and easy to understand.

Sem teaching a class of students

We offer the following Learning Options:

Cebuano Online Learning

We are in the process of creating an online course with access to the instructor.

In the mean time we can provide the instruction provided in the 3 day personal instruction below with one weekly online chat (using Yahoo or Skype) to our instructor.

Cebuano Personal Instruction

One-On-One personalized instruction (for Expats or people staying for an extended period)

This is a 3 days a week program for those that want to learn to speak the language fluently.  This is the most popular and effective way of learning.  The material being taught is customized to your needs and learning is at your own pace.   Classes can be at your home or in our classroom.

The following is a guide of how training can be structured but as training is personalized and tailored to your needs the structure is very flexible:

Day 1 – Instruction & Grammar 1.5 hour

Day 2 – Drilling & Practice 1.5 hour

Day 3 – Review & Introduce new concept 1.5 hour

No charge for travel within Metro Cebu / Mactan

Three days a week is recommended but it can be varied on request.

Cost: P6000 Per Month

Cebuano Classroom Instruction

Cebuano for Beginners – For those with little or no understanding of the language

Learn the basics with others at the same level with 2 Sessions of 1.5 hours a week including one monthly field trip where we go out and apply what you have learnt in practical situations.

Cost: P2500 Per Month

(Minimum 5 enrollments for a class)

Cebuano Intensive/Fast Track learning program

for people who need to learn it fast or are only visiting the Philippines with limited time

Personalized teaching at your own pace at your home or in our classroom.

This is a 5 days a week intensive program for those that want to fast track their learning.

Day 1 - Instruction & Grammar 1.5 hour

Day 2 – Drilling & Practice 1.5 hour

Day 3 – Instruction & Grammar 1.5 hour

Day 4 – Drilling & Practice 1.5 hour

Day 5 – Field Practice 3 hours

No charge for travel within Metro Cebu / Mactan

Cost: P8000 Per Month

Genuine Translator / Tour guide services

Available on hourly or daily charge.

Payment Options

Cash is always best but we can accept all major credit cards (5% surcharge),  Paypal, bank transers, western union etc.

Contact the Cebuano-Visayan Language School

We are located in Cebu City.  We do not have our own building and conduct classes at various locations including function rooms and resturants.  We will be holding regular classes in the El Gecko Resto-bar starting in July 2008.

To contact the Cebuano-Visayan Language School please leave a message using the Leave a Reply facility below.

You can also call Sem directly on  0919-3502457

(At the moment it has been an exercise in surveying the market for how much interest is out there. We hope to progress to offering an actual full course soon.)