Has your tagalog improved?
Oh yeah, a lot. I'm still not fluent, but I can speak at a basic level. The hardest part is many words have ng in it and it's a sound that we don't make in English so it's very hard to properly pronounce a lot of words. Speaking with a native Filipino accent isn't easy.
People tell me that I speak Tagalog like an American, and I'm like, duh.