Proof why Tagalog has become a major language...

My daughter has been watching 3 Idiots for a decade now. A favorite since college, and she still recommends the movie to friends and acquaintances. She knows the Hindi script and songs by heart.

@Butterfingers Yup.

@eileenleyva really

As I've been telling every one, there was a Filipino diaspora that happened in the '70s, when the country was beset by the grim Martial Law, and the Filipinos set out into the world to find jobs. The Filipinos became entertainers in Japan, domestic help in Hong Kong, freight mariners in the seven seas, caregivers, laborers, nurses, doctors, technicians, even make-up artists and production assistants in Hollywood. Filipinos have also become educators. A classmate became a principal in a Los Angeles school. The music teachers have taught our folk songs and our kundiman (serenade songs) to their choirs. That is why the world speaks Tagalog now. How many? As many as the Filipinos have cared for and communicated with.

@eileenleyva That is very interesting, thanks for the explanation

@LeaPea2417 My pleasure telling, really.

Check out Time Magazine, Tagalog is already considered a major language.

Once, when Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom, emerged from a hospital confinement, he expressed his bewilderment, was he in a London hospital. for the medical staff was composed of Filipinos, speaking in Tagalog. His own grandson, Prince William, had a Filipina for a nanny (or maid). Such scenario is true around the world. Even the young princes and princesses of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are lulled to sleep by Philippine lullaby by their Filipino nannies. Although Filipinos speak English in conversations, when we interact and give instructions, we resort to Tagalog for clarity. Tagalog is an emphatic language.

@eileenleyva Very interesting!!!