Abstract
Rhodalyne Gallo-Crail teaches Tagalog at Northern Illinois University and speaks the language natively. She is the creator and director of the Tagalog website sponsored by NIU's Center for Southeast Asian studies: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/. Michael Hawkins, who learned Tagalog by immersion in the Philippines, is assistant professor of Asian history at Creighton University.