Real Cebuano · Davao Native Speaker · Understood Across Mindanao

Learn the Bisaya they actually speak.

Name: Bisaya Daily™ — All Access (Cebuano Course)
Brand: Bisaya Daily
Price: 149.00 USD
Availability: PreOrder

A complete course in Cebuano (Bisaya) — voiced by a native Davao speaker, the real language your Filipino partner, in-laws, and the neighbors at the palengke actually use. It's the Cebuano understood right across Mindanao and the Visayas, not Tagalog and not textbook drills. About ten minutes a day — most people finish the beginner course in 4–5 months at one lesson a day, faster if you do two. Your pace, your call.

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600+ phrases across 42 units • Native Davao audio • All 3 levels, one payment

A line you'll mean

Maayong gabii, mahal.

ma-AH-yong ga-BEE-ee, ma-HAL

Good evening, my love.

The kind of thing you'll mean early on

Why this exists

Every other Cebuano app teaches you to sound like a textbook.

We teach you to sound like family. The vocabulary, the rhythm, the small words that signal you're not just visiting — you belong.

Built by a native speaker

Every phrase is voiced and vetted by Pearl, a native Davao speaker — the words and rhythm real people use, down to the small particles ("lagi," "diay," "uy bay") that mark you as someone who belongs, not someone visiting. And because Cebuano is understood right across Mindanao and the Visayas, this is the Bisaya spoken almost everywhere down south — you're not learning a narrow dialect, you're learning the real thing from someone who actually speaks it.

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Built around your life

Talking to in-laws. Ordering at a karinderya. Buying at the palengke. Going through immigration on arrival. The course is structured around the real situations a partner or visitor walks into, not classroom drills about going to the library.

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Built to be finished

Ten minutes a day, your pace. Most people finish the beginner course in about 4–5 months at one lesson a day — faster if you do two, slower if you take your time. No app gamification. No streaks designed to make you panic. Honest progress through a real curriculum, with spaced repetition so you remember what you learn.

Listen for yourself

This is what your family sounds like when they're not translating for you.

Three samples from the course, recorded by Pearl — a native Bisaya speaker and the voice of every phrase. If you have a Bisaya-speaking partner or family, ask them to listen and tell you if it sounds right.

Unit 1 · Greetings

Maayong buntag!

ma-AH-yong BOON-tag

Good morning

Unit 5 · At the Market

Pwede hangyo?

PWEH-deh HANG-yo

Can you lower the price?

Unit 29 · Family

Nagkaon na ka?

nahg-KAH-on na ka

Have you eaten? (a way of saying "I care about you")

An honest note: audio is rolling out unit by unit. Pearl is recording Unit 1 now, and new units are added as recording completes. Early buyers get every unit as it ships — no extra cost.

Lesson 23 · Month 2

Maayong adlaw!

Unit 5: At the Market

Streak

Learned

Due

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Working toward

Shop at the palengke

Soon you'll bargain at the market · 4 earned

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Practice & Skills

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Pronunciation Guide

How every word is read

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Sentence Builder

Construct, don't just recall

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Conversation Simulator

Hold a real exchange

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Practice a Unit

Revisit any unit, anytime

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Needs More Study

Drill just your flagged phrases

What's in your hand

A real app, not a glorified flashcard deck.

Install it on your phone home screen. Use it on a plane. Use it offline at your in-laws' house in Marilog. It's yours.

Works offline, after first load

No internet? No problem. The whole course lives on your device once you've opened it once.

Spaced repetition that actually works

The app schedules each phrase for review based on how well you remembered it last time. You learn faster, forget less.

Share progress with your partner

Send a weekly recap of what you've learned. They see the words to use with you, and your next conversation in Bisaya actually happens.

Your progress, your data

Export a backup any time. Switch phones, reinstall, hand it to a developer — your study history is portable JSON, not locked in our servers.

How you'll actually learn

You don't memorize words. You learn to use them.

Most apps stop at "match the word to the picture." Every phrase here moves through real practice — hearing it, saying it, building it, and replying with it — so it sticks as something you can use, not just recognize. And you don't move on until you've nearly mastered each unit — no clicking through, no 10,000 phrases you'll never say. A few hundred you'll actually use, learned until they're yours.

Hear it

Pearl's voice first — you train your ear before you ever see it spelled out.

▶ Salamat

Know it

Quick checks lock in the meaning, both directions.

Salamat = thank you

Build it

Construct the phrase yourself from the pieces — tapping the words into the right order.

Maayong · buntag

Reply with it

Someone speaks to you — you choose, build, or type the right response.

"Kumusta ka?" → ?

Remember it

Smart review brings each phrase back right before you'd forget it.

↻ spaced review

The part most apps skip: replying.

Knowing that "Unsa imong ngalan?" means "What's your name?" isn't the same as knowing what to say back. The course drills the response — pick it, build it, or type it — so when a real conversation happens, you're not frozen translating in your head. You're answering.

And it's built for real life, not screen time: about ten minutes a day, no manipulative streaks, no fake urgency — just steady, honest progress through a curriculum a native speaker actually wrote.

See it yourself — try a lesson free →

James & Pearl

A Black/Filipino military family — together since Japan

Our story

We met in Japan. We built this for everyone who needs it.

I'm James — a US Army soldier. I met Pearl while assigned to Japan, where she was working as a preschool teacher. We went on one date and we've been together ever since.

Years later, when I tried to learn her language, the available apps weren't good enough. Duolingo offered Tagalog — the wrong language entirely. Textbooks taught stiff vocabulary nobody actually uses. The Cebuano resources I could find were sparse, awkward, and read like they'd been translated by someone who'd never spoken to a real Bisaya speaker.

So Pearl and I built this ourselves. She wrote the curriculum from her ear — the words and phrases people actually use, not what a textbook says. She reviewed every phrase. She's the voice you hear. I built the app around her work.

We built this for cross-cultural families and learners like us — anyone who wants to be heard at the dinner table, not just understood through translators.

— James & Pearl

What's inside

The honest specifications.

We deliberately don't say "thousands of phrases." We say what's actually in there. You'll know exactly what you're buying.

Curriculum units

Organized by life situation — greetings, family, market, food, health, the airport, the in-laws' house, the karinderya, immigration. Real places you'll be.

600+

Vocabulary phrases

Hand-picked and reviewed by a native Davao speaker. Includes phonetic pronunciation for every entry, plus notes on usage and context.

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Grammar that's taught, not drilled

No endless conjugation tables. The patterns that produce most of conversational Bisaya are woven into the phrases themselves — so mokaon, nakakaon, and mukaon start to make sense in context, the way you'd actually pick them up.

30+

Conversation simulations

Meeting the in-laws. Buying mangoes. Ordering at the karinderya. Riding a jeepney. Catching up with an old friend. Thirty-plus full multi-turn exchanges where you pick the right reply, not just translate — and they recombine into longer scenes as you progress, so you're always speaking, never memorizing a script.

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Sentence-builder drills

Arrange tiles to construct sentences. Trains the muscle of actually producing Bisaya, not just recognizing it.

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Custom words

Heard a word from your in-laws that's not in the course? Add it. It joins your personal review queue and you'll remember it forever.

Try before you commit

Take a real lesson free. No card. No email.

Six useful phrases, taught exactly the way the full course teaches — hear it, recognize it, build it yourself, then use it in a conversation. About five minutes. Enough to know if our approach works for you, and you'll walk away able to say a few things that actually matter.

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In the preview, you'll learn to

Greet, respond, and ask — for real

Say "good morning" the way Davao locals actually say it
Ask "how are you?" — and give the natural reply back
Say please and thank you with the right rhythm
Haggle at the palengke: "Can you lower the price?"
Hold a short conversation, putting it all together

"Can't I just use a free app, or get a tutor?"

You can — and they're worth trying. Here's the honest difference, so you know what you're actually paying for.

The free translators and phrase lists

Tools like TalkBisaya are genuinely useful — as a dictionary. But a list of 1,200 words won't get a single one of them into your head or your mouth. There's no one teaching your ear, no review that brings a phrase back before you forget it, no path from "I looked it up" to "I said it without thinking." A reference isn't a course. This is a course.

A tutor or a monthly app

A tutor is wonderful — when they're scheduled, online, and you've paid this month. They're not there at 11pm when you finally have ten minutes, and not there with no signal at your in-laws' place in the province. This is on your phone, on demand, 24/7, fully offline after the first load. Practice on the jeepney, on the plane, in the bukid — whenever the urge hits, no booking, no bill.

And you pay for it once

No subscription quietly renewing whether you study or not. One payment, all three levels, yours forever — Beginner today, Intermediate and Advanced as Pearl records them, every audio update included. Learn at your pace over months or years; the price doesn't change and the app doesn't expire.

One simple price

Pay once. Own it.

No subscription. One payment unlocks all three levels — Beginner now, Intermediate and Advanced automatically as Pearl records them. Keep the app and everything in it, forever.

Bisaya Daily^™ — All Access

Every level — Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced — for one price. All features, all future units, yours forever.

$ 149 .00

One-time. Not per month. Not per year.

All three levels — Beginner ready, Intermediate & Advanced as they record Start with the complete Beginner course (42 units, 600+ phrases). Intermediate and Advanced unlock automatically as Pearl records them — no second purchase, ever.
Every way to practice Conversation simulations, sentence-builder drills, spaced review, and grammar taught in context — not just flashcards.
Native Davao audio as it ships You get every audio update as Pearl records them. No extra charge.
Syncs across your devices Phone, tablet, laptop — enter your code and pick up right where you left off. Activate on up to 2 devices; locked out after a new phone? Just email us.
Backup & restore your progress Your data is yours. Export it any time, take it anywhere.
Share-with-partner feature included Send a weekly recap to your Bisaya-speaking partner. They get conversation prompts for your next call.

30-day refund at launch — no questions, just reply to your receipt.

The learning path

Three levels. All included.

Your one payment covers all three. Beginner is ready now — a complete course on its own, enough to handle real daily life in Davao. Intermediate and Advanced are being recorded now and unlock automatically in your app as they're finished. No second purchase.

Available

Level 1

Beginner

Greetings, family, the market, food, getting around, the in-laws, staying healthy — the Bisaya of everyday life. 42 units, native Davao audio, real conversation practice.

Ready now — included

Coming

Level 2

Intermediate

Longer conversations, opinions and feelings, telling stories, faster natural speech, and the grammar to say what you actually mean — not just what you memorized.

Recording now — unlocks automatically, no extra cost

Coming

Level 3

Advanced

Real fluency work: nuanced conversation, humor and local flavor, understanding fast group talk, and holding your own in any everyday Davao setting.

Recording to follow — included in your purchase

One price, the whole journey. You don’t buy levels one at a time. A single payment gives you everything — Beginner today, Intermediate and Advanced the moment each is recorded. Early buyers get every future level at no extra cost, locked in at today’s price.