born and raised in manila, speaking mostly tagalog but
Hi, everyone! This will be my first post here on reddit. I'm actually a Filipino, born and raised in Manila, speaking mostly tagalog. I'm posting in this subreddit specifically bcs of my problem with speaking tagalog. I'm fluent in tagalog, I understand even the deep ones. But I was very sheltered growing up and so I have little to no understanding of how the world really works. My parents didn't allow me to go outside very much when I was young so I had very little circle of friends. We rarely go outside our city too. And when we do, it's usually just to go to my grandma's. It wasn't until I was in 12th year that I learned how to commute using a jeepney and learning the places within our city. But until now that I'm a 3rd year in college, studying at a different city 3 hours from our house, I still don't know how to talk properly in tagalog. Oh, I just realized I'm not on topic anymore but whatevs. I'm too embarrassed to ask this to anyone irl so I'm just gonna do it here. I do know tagalog but I don't know which words I should use sometimes. For example, I don't know how to order at a restaurant especially when I'm alone. I've been searching for months now on how to ask for your leftovers to go at a café/restaurant. Simple things like those that are usually easy but I was so sheltered and maybe isolated that those easy things are still so hard for me now as an adult