Filipino

comprehensive food section, etiquette & cultural tips easy-to-use pronunciation guide sections include phrases for finding accommodation & for hitting the town useful suggestions for health needs & emergencies extensive two-way dictionary & user-friendly sentence builder Filipino is also known as Tagalog, and is spoken as the standard language throughout the Philippines travel to the Philippines is set to increase by 9.2 per cent in 2004 (WTTC 2004) the Philippines consist of more than 7,000 islands there are over 200 volcanoes on the islands, though only a small number are active the yo-yo was invented in the Philippines. The original yo-yos were used as a weapon by hunters the islands were a colony of Spain from 1565 to 1898