Lesson LibraryAdvanced Audio Blog Season 2

Advanced Audio Blog Season 2

In this series, you will learn in-depth about the culture of Philippines. You'll learn about different famous tourist destinations, artist, movies, and more.

25 Lessons • 1hr 29min

0 / 25 Complete

Top 5 Filipino Tourist Destinations: Palawan

Learn about Palawan, one of the Top Tourist Destinations in the Philippines

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 5 Filipino Tourist Destinations: Apo Island and Mount Apo

Learn about the two Apo volcanoes in the Philippines, and how they are very different from each other

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 5 Filipino Tourist Destinations: Puerto Galera

Learn about why Puerto Galera is a well-known name among SCUBA divers, marine biologists, and wildlife enthusiasts worldwide

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 5 Filipino Tourist Destinations: Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park

Learn about Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, where you can walk through a thriving forest alive with the calls of over a hundred different species of birds

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Tourist Destinations: Banaue Rice Terraces

Learn about the Banaue Rice Terraces, where the hard work and toil of countless generations over millennia have created a cultural treasure

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Fernando Amorsolo

Learn about renowned artist Fernando Amorsolo, who grew up in Manila, studied in Spain and New York, and whose canvases are now among the most desirable (and expensive) works of Filipino art

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Victorio C. Edades

Learn about this artist who turned the Filipino art world upside down and is now seen as a vital "bridge" into the modern artistic era

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Vincente Manansala

Learn how Vincente Manansala left his mark on modern Filipino art with his symbolic, figurative style, his adaptation of cubist techniques, and his use of folk themes and images that drew on both urban and rural culture

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Hernando R. Ocampo

Learn about Hernando Ocampo's multifaceted career as one of the Philippines' most controversial and cutting-edge artists

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Cesar Legaspi

Learn how Cesar Legaspi, one of the Thirteen Moderns, created groundbreaking works of art that addressed social ills like the widespread misery of the working poor

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Napoleon Abueva

Learn about the "father of Philippine sculpture" and the many achievements of his career, as well as his fame as a creator of traditional death masks of famous individuals

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Jose T. Joya

Learn about how this would-be architect became a trailblazer for other artists through his leadership, his unique abstract style, and his experiments with multimedia

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Ang Kiukok

Learn about the life of Ang Kiukok and how he used his often gruesome imagery to comment on the ills he observed both in Philippine society and in human nature

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Benedicto Cabrera

Learn about the life and career of Benedicto Cabrera, as well as the way in which his experiences during the time of the Marcos dictatorship changed the way he approached his art

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Artists: Rodel Tapaya

Learn about Tapaya's worldwide popularity, the importance of folklore, myth, and fantasy in his art, and a little bit about his current exhibit, Visions of Lore, on tour in Berlin

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Tribu

Learn about the story of gang conflict that drives the plot of Tribu, the critical honors and distinctions this film has obtained

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: The Bet Collector

Learn about the movie Kubrador, the life of its main character, Amy, and the nationwide trend of illegal gameplay in the Philippines that inspired the film

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Donsol

Learn about the story of Teresa and Daniel in Donsol, the issues the movie raises, the acclaim it received, and about whale sharks, giant, plankton-eating fish that can grow up to forty feet long and live up to seventy years

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: The Wanderer in the Land of Elementalia

Learn about the film's plot, how the main character is sometimes surprised by the behavior of the mythological beasts that live in Elementalia, and what the creators accomplished during the intense two-year production of this "tradigital" animated feature

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Small Voices

Learn about the film Mga Munting Tinig, the struggles its characters face, and the positive critical reception that it has received

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Reef Hunters

Learn about the plot of the film Muro Ami, the practices used in the muro ami fishing technique, and the reasons why this 1999 film, released to critical and popular acclaim, just might be a classic in the making

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Jose Rizal

Learn about the story of Jose Rizal's life as portrayed in this popular biographical drama, the conflict following Rizal's death, and the remarkable circumstances behind the production and release of this enduringly popular film

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: In the Navel of the Sea

Learn about the film Sa Pusod Ng Dagat (In the Navel of the Sea), the story of a young man, Pepito, who struggles to accept his hereditary role as midwife for the women in a small island community

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Gold, Silver, Bad Luck

Learn about the wartime story of the Ojedas and the Lorenzos and also about why many Filipinos consider certain staircases very unlucky indeed

3 Minutes • Audio

Top 10 Filipino Movies: Manila at the Claw of Light

Learn about the 1974 film Manila at the Claw of Light, a compelling tale of love, desperation, and revenge, and learn what some of its main characters might symbolize and say about modern Filipino society and culture

3 Minutes • Audio