Will it make a difference if we love our own language?

I hope so too. I think, loving our language can get us out of this quagmire.

Our mother tongue of course we should love it and keep maintaining the language.
The point is when we communicate with foreigners our mother tongue is not
communicable, so more or less we've to learn some of their languages in order to
socialize with them. Thus foreign language is worthwhile to learn too.

Of course we use english when we talk to foreigners being english as the universal language. That is a given.

Our national language is Filipino based primarily in Tagalog (which is a dialect). These 2 are different. The Tagalog of chair is salumpuit while in Filipino it is silya.

I have nothing against english being taught in school. What matters is that this was and is given much priority. Instead of teaching us Filipino literature, they gave priority on english literature. We know shakespeare better that lam ang or Lope K. Santos because our 1st teachers were americans. With these, we were trained to think that foreign goods are better than ours.

I am not referring to native crafts here but all products made by filipino businessmen, filipino capital and filipino workers in the philippines. Buying these products will help the filipino businessmen to grow. They will pay their workers and employees more. These workers and employees will buy filipino products and the cycle is complete. The economy will improved. Japan and Korea did this and their economy is constantly growing.

yep. that's why korea and japan are really improves economically because people from these countries are taught to love their own products and even their own language. however, they, too are learning english even if it's too expensive for them. they even take online classes where infact, their teachers online are filipinos, too. i know these because i was once offered a job to teach korean english in Ortigas. i'm proud to be a filipino since we're looked up to other countries when it comes to english literacy.

yep. that's why korea and japan really improves economically because people from these countries are taught to love their own products and even their own language. however, they, too are learning english even if it's too expensive for them. they even take online classes where infact, their teachers online are filipinos, too. i know these because i was once offered a job to teach korean english in Ortigas. i'm proud to be a filipino since we're looked up to other countries when it comes to english literacy.

ooops. sorry. i posted twice. computer error. i am so sorry for this. have a nice day.

hey you got 2 pluses for that! hehehe! I run a foundation and some of our scholars earn additional income by teaching english to japanese, chinese, korean and arabs. In my position, I can not help but be disappointed in our government's inefficiency and uncaring attitude towards our poor people. That is why, there are issues that I have to be involved even if my star reputation dives into lowest point.

2 pluses? no need to. it's an honest mistake to be posting two comments. sorry for that.

yep. you have a point there. it's sad to know that there are lots of poor families. i hope that if not all, atleast some of their needs be addressed especially education for the children.

and i am sorry to learn about your star rating being dropped to eight. it was a ten before, right? i hope people here won't rate us negatively when we oppose to the topics they have. for as long as we're inside the boundaries of the discussions and we have our points to say, that does not deserve a negative rating,right?

Okay lang if that star reach 1 as long as I can say what is in my heart. Let us help our co pinoys here so that we will all earn enough.

English being the universal language is beside the point. Improving our economy based on filipino capital and filipino investor is better if given the chance. The capital stays in the country. While foreign investors bring their profit back to their land, so we lose much.

Call centers are just temporary jobs and we should invest more on permanent jobs and companies by filipino investors. if you will educate filipinos on the idea that we will work on foreign land or foreign companies, we are getting nowhere. Sad but true...

I love you, too, Steve! Thank you is 'Salamat' and thank you very much is 'maraming salamat' in our tongue. I have this urge to tell you that thank you is 'maganda ka' (hahaha!) but didn't. 'Maganda ka' means you are beautiful and the word for ugly is 'pangit'.

I do not know why we do not have a single tongue but the Tower of Babel gave us an acceptable idea. With the type of leaders we have now, I am glad we speak differently.

Ok, here goes. Are you ready?

Salamat!

How did I do?

Well, well well, you are doing great!

The Filipino of how are you is 'kumusta ka'? See the similarity to 'como usta usted?' in spanish? We were colonized by Spain for more than 300 years. Spanish language influenced, in a way, our own language. Do not be surprised if the older generation know how to speak spanish. There is even a province here that speak spanish (as their dialect).

Isn't tagalog the national language of Philippines?

No, it is not. Filipino is our national language which is based in Tagalog. There are many words in Filipino which is not a part of Tagalog. Tagalog is a dialect of the Tagalog region. Imagine, our fellow pinoys do not know that our national language is Filipino! This is absurb!

Do Filippino have a different script?
I was under the impression that tagalog is the national language of Philippines. What does Philippines means in your language?

Philippines is Pilipinas in our language. Maybe those who are saying that tagalog is our national language was absent when that was taught in school or they are from the provinces and do not seem to know the difference.

I am glad you understand what i am trying to say here. If we treat our language as second rate, it is more likely that this attitude has seeped into our consciousness and affected the way we think, talk and act.

Yes, you have a point here. That is due to colonial mentality because of that more than 300 years of spanish colonization. Our parets inherited the traits from their forefathers and then transfered those traits to us. I hope we can eliminate this for our own good.

Thank you very much for that encouragement, ossie. I have to clear this thing out. The imported goods coming from other countries like China, Korea and othe asian counties are cheaper than our locally produced goods. this is so because some of the raw materials of these locally produced goods are imported too. Those products which uses local materials do not have government subsidies like that enjoyed by our neighboring asian countries, so our products are more expensive. The other imported products coming from the usa and other developed countries have no equivalent product here. The irony is that these products that came from these developed countries were produced here as we the just the subcontractor of these branded goods.

This is not a queston of learning another language but the issue of not giving priority on our language. Giving it priority and respect could instill patriotism and nationalism which most of us do not have.

They will do it becauase they are the loser if they do not speak our language. I've known of an american who frequent our beaches and talk like a local. He studied at UP.

Previously, we have a 3 language policy too but now they deleted spanish in the curriculum. We have english and filipino as languages to learn.

In that order?

Yes in that order. You will be surprised that there are moves today tomake english our primary language in school. This is ridiculous. Maybe, this is also the reason why we are not improving as a nation.