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Madagascar has 18 different tribes and 18 different dialects of Malagasy.  To learn Malagasy is to take an interest in a certain tribe you might like to understand.

Thanks for answer i only nead to studay a basic malagasy tjat spoken on tana that must of yje people can undrstand me

Thanks alot do you know if there are any classes with smal gropes in any city in madagascar that i can learn how to talk malagasy .i nead only basic eords for traveling thanks for any informtion jacob

When are you coming to Madagascar?

hi  i belive around april or may i am eoropian that live in rio de janiero brasil for long time and i am e special tourist guide will like to stay few days in tana than travel around tmajunga to diego and some safari places i speak 7 langguges  but  nothing in france thanks for any informtion jacob will only like to learen basic  as i am traveling alone  visit many fdiffrent african countries before  jacob

Yes it is best to know the local language and you can get by here on a hundred Malagasy words that can cover all the dialects.
You do need to know some French as in the numbers one to hundred and one thousand, as these numbers are used in counting money. 
I visited Brazil in the 1980's and got by on English but I think they also spoke some French as well, so you may already know the numbers. 

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