Others say...

"Excellent book for it's purpose"
This is a excellent starter book for beginner's in Tagalog. I have another Tagalog book which was rated excellent, but some of the phrases my wife told me were dated. This book uses modern day slang phases which will keep you from sounding like an old fart. It explains some uses of words & structure of Tagalog, but just some basic points. If you can memorize all phrases of this book by heart, I think you will be able to converse in a basic level with Tagalog. It will provide you a good foundation to build on.

They could have left the bad words out though, like F*** Off, and Condom. I let my kids learn from this too but tell them not to go to those specific phrases. They could have said Back Off instead of F*** Off. Just my opinion.

"Not that great."
This book Making Out In Tagalog is actually basically a really expensive phrasebook. It really doesn't deemed being priced so high. If hypothetically a friend had the book, and you copied the the book into a wordprocessor and reduced the fontface and spacing it could fit in your pocket on 20 pages or less (cough-hint-cough).
The book contains a bunch of phrases that you may or will learn such as Greetings,Eating,Date and Time,etc and such.
The only chapters worth even buying this book for is the Party Talk, Curses and Insults,and Lover's Language because they are really the only phrases that are hard to find in Tagalog resources and because they are a small selection of the slang used by Filipino youths. Even so the book could have used *ALOT* more phrases (especially since alot of the first couple of chapters was sorta like a review) and it seems so shortcoming. The book really would have benefited if it would have shown more literal meanings and more detailed descriptions of when the phrase would be used, (it only does this for a small number of phrases).

Overall, This book is not a necessary buy,unless you find it cheaper,or unless you can check it out from a library maybe write down a COU*few*GH of the words on like 20 blank sheets of paper, because as I said most of the stuff you will already know. But buy it if your interested in only gaining slightly more knowledge. Hopefully, any future editions will be improved.

"Sounding Like an Idiot in Tagalog"
This book should be titled "Sounding Like an Idiot in Tagalog" because it has no accent marks or glottal stops to tell you how to pronounce the words. I am so tired of Tagalog books that leave out these essential parts of the language. Other than that this book is helpful.

"This book could get you into trouble"
An interesting selection of phrases not often found in phrase books. I would recomend it to anyone studying seriously and wanting to put some realism in their practice.