MyBisayaTutorListening
Play a clip, build what you heard from word tiles, see every word's meaning. Four levels, New to Advanced.
15,000 LISTENING CLIPS
The free Bisaya app for iPhone
Learn Bisaya in 5 minutes a day.
Hear a sentence, tap the words you heard, see what they mean. 15,000 graded listening clips, 20 grammar lessons and 1,000 words — built the way Cebuano is actually learned: by ear.
- No account needed
- Grammar & vocab offline
- Free forever tier
TODAY · NEW2 / 6 clips
What did you hear?
Tap the words you heard
What MyBisayaTutor is
MyBisayaTutor is an iPhone app for learning Cebuano, the language most Filipinos call Bisaya. It is built around comprehensible input: 15,000 listening clips and a library of stories graded from A0 to C2, so you spend most of your time on Cebuano you can almost follow, moving up a level when it stops being hard.
Around that core sit 20 grammar lessons covering the whole system, verb focus included, a 1,000-word vocabulary trainer on spaced repetition, curated Cebuano YouTube, the Kabaws short-clip feed and a Bisaya ↔ English translator. Progress is graded against a CEFR-style ladder.
The free tier does not expire. Pro is $4.99 a month, $24.99 a year or $59.99 once for life. There are no accounts, and progress stays on your phone. It is made by Daniel Pasion at Namore Studios, and there is no Android version yet.
New to the language? Start with how to learn Bisaya and how hard Bisaya is to learn.
What's inside MyBisayaTutor?
Six ways to practise, one plan that strings them together.
Learn
20 lessons across 5 units — greetings, focus markers, aspect, questions, negation. A quiz after each one.
20 LESSONS · 20 QUIZZES
Vocabulary
The 1,000 most-used Bisaya words on spaced repetition. Don't know → Learning → Mastered.
1,000 WORDS
Kabaws
Short vertical clips with tappable captions. Tap a word mid-sentence to see what it means.
3 FREE A DAY
Reading
Leveled short stories with comprehension questions, from A1 to C2.
1 STORY A DAY FREE
Translator
Bisaya ↔ English without leaving the app, so a word you hit mid-lesson doesn't send you to Google Translate.
ALWAYS FREE
MAAYONG BUNTAG
What does a day of Bisaya practice look like?
Pick 5, 15 or 30 minutes. The app turns it into a plan and tells you what's left. This is the Pro plan; the free one is smaller and caps Kabaws at three a day.
- VocabularyDone for today15/15
- Listening6 left9/15
- Kabaws7 left3/10
- QuizDone for today10/10
- Reading1 left0/1
12-day streak2 of 5 done · 15-minute Pro plan
How long does it take to learn Bisaya?
About 100 hours to your first real conversation, 500 to handle daily life. The app logs every minute — lessons, listening, Kabaws, even study you do elsewhere — and shows where you are on the ladder.
- A0 · 0h
- A1 · 100h
- A2 · 200h
- B1 · 500h
- B2 · 800h
- C1 · 1,100h
- C2 · 1,500h
YOUR JOURNEY
A1
Beginner
142h logged · 58h to A2
- Listening86m
- Vocabulary58m
- Kabaws44m
- Quizzes31m
- Reading22m
Padayon!Keep going — 8 of 10 heard right today.
How much does MyBisayaTutor cost?
The core is free. Pro removes the daily limits.
FREE
$0
- ✓ All 1,000 words + translator
- ✓ All 20 grammar lessons, lesson 1 quiz
- ✓ 200 listening clips per level
- ✓ 3 Kabaws + 1 story a day
SAVE 58%
PRO
$24.99 /yr
That's $2.08 a month. Cancel any time.
- ✓ Everything in Free
- ✓ All 20 quizzes, unlimited listening
- ✓ Unlimited Kabaws, stories, media
- ✓ Streaks, custom plans, progress dashboard
Questions people ask
Is MyBisayaTutor free?
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Yes. The vocabulary trainer, translator, grammar lesson 1, 200 listening clips per level, 3 Kabaws and one story a day are free forever — no trial timer, no account. Pro removes the caps and adds streaks, custom plans and the progress dashboard, at $4.99 a month, $24.99 a year, or $59.99 once for life.
How long does it take to learn Bisaya?
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Roughly 100 hours to a basic exchange (A1), 200 to short everyday conversations (A2), 500 to handle daily life without English (B1). At 30 minutes a day that's about 7, 13 and 33 months.
Is Bisaya the same as Tagalog?
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No. They're separate languages in the same family — about as close as Spanish and Italian. Tagalog vocabulary won't carry you, though the grammar concepts transfer.
Are the voices real native speakers?
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No. The listening clips, the dictionary audio and the Kabaws are all spoken by a neural text-to-speech voice tuned for Cebuano, and reviewed by the developer. For real native speakers at real speed, the Native Media tab links out to Cebuano creators on YouTube.
Is there an Android app?
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Not yet. iOS is available today; Android is on the roadmap.
Maayong buntag. Ready to start?
Free on the App Store. No account, no trial timer. Questions? [email protected]
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