Maayong buntag
Good morning/ma-A-yong BUN-tag/
Use it during the morning.
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Bisaya for beginners: start with what you can use today
Begin with high-value phrases and learn them in context, so you understand what you hear and can build your own responses instead of reciting lines.
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Begin with what you can use today
Start with high-value greetings and everyday words you can use the same day, learned in context so understanding and production grow together.
A beginner path should feel useful from the first session. Speak Bisaya starts with high-value greetings and everyday words, then introduces pronunciation, simple sentences and short conversations in a sensible order.
You learn each item in context — hearing it, recalling it, and meeting it again inside complete sentences — so understanding and production grow together instead of one lagging behind the other.
No assumptions are made about prior knowledge. Clear explanations, learner-language options and a free starter unit let you begin confidently without an account or card.
Useful Cebuano
Your first useful Bisaya phrases
Real phrases you can use today. Hear them, recall them, and meet them again in context inside Speak Bisaya.
Kumusta ka?
How are you?/ku-MUS-ta ka/
A friendly, everyday opener.
Explore this phraseMaayo ra ko
I’m fine/ma-A-yo ra ko/
A simple, natural reply to “Kumusta?”.
Explore this phraseUnsa imong ngalan?
What is your name?/un-SA i-MONG NGA-lan/
Literally “what your name?”.
Explore this phraseAko si…
I am…/A-ko si…/
Follow with your first name.
Explore this phraseSalamat
Thank you/sa-LA-mat/
Add “kaayo” for “thank you very much”.
Explore this phraseHear pronunciation and practise these inside Speak Bisaya’s free phrase library and scenarios.
Your first three Cebuano learning sessions
- Session one: learn a greeting and a polite thank-you, and say both aloud.
- Session two: practise asking “Kumusta ka?” and recognising a simple answer.
- Session three: revisit the same phrases before adding a new topic such as family or food.
Why Speak Bisaya
One connected learning system
Lessons, review, games and stories share one learning memory — so what you learn becomes what you can say.
A clear route from beginner onwards
Lessons build on what you have already met, so you are not left wondering which random topic to open next.
Natural Cebuano audio
Speak Bisaya prefers approved, published recordings and is built around clear, natural pronunciation throughout the path.
Smart spaced review
Spaced repetition brings words back at the right time, while mistake review helps you focus where it matters most.
Adaptive learning games
Games built from your own learned phrases, weak spots and due reviews — listening, sentence-building, memory and conversation missions.
Goal-based course recommendation
Tell Speak Bisaya why you are learning — family, partner, travel, local life or work — and the path adapts to the conversations that matter.
Teaching-language options
Choose from many learner-language options. Instructions, explanations and meanings follow your selected language throughout.
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Bisaya Phrase of the Day
Gamay ra
A little
Pronunciation: ga-MAI ra
In context
Kasabot ko gamay.
I understand a little.
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Begin with high-value greetings and everyday words you can use the same day. Learn each item in context — hearing it, recalling it and meeting it in complete sentences — so understanding and production grow together.
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