Preserving and Promoting Non-Tagalog Philippine Languages

[Lili]

Nice account Mango. I wish you can post pictures in the picture thread of you and your friends there.

I haven't heard or read anything from Rico of Japan. I wonder how he is? Must be so preoccupied with work, tennis and his new car.

[Mango]

^Am thinking of posting one in the picture thread. Pag nawala na apprehension ha ha!

[Lili]

I had to overcome that myself. You know.

[bagel]

Sige post lang... Puwede naman tangalin eh... tapos pag nag-makeover ka, you can keep it there forever.

[dhoyax]

english, tagalog, cebuano, cantonese

[normandb]

Pwede ba turuan nyo kami ng language na sward speak..


Mga Chuva at chukchakchenes ever...

[tyronne]

haha! i always find it funny whenever people talk like that. my bestfriends talk like that sometimes and it makes me laugh. i dont know...

[Lili]

tienes, tienes...

[tigidig14]

ano ba tawag sa language ng ngongo,
kasi sabi nila ang twag dun ay ngonge, i think im right, am I

[kiretoce]

I didn't know that there was even a language named for the "ngo-ngo" people!

[tigidig14]

^language ay ngo-nge, tao ay ngo-ngo

[KulasKusgan]

baby talk. habebe... dunoke...

[Sou-jiro]

Ei...Mango how do you say "You Are Weak"...la lang....hehe

[Sinjin P.]

I am fluent in speaking English, Tagalog and Cebuano.

I am interested in learning Spanish and French.

[snoopy]

cantonese, english, and chinglish

[Mango]

Originally Posted by ^SoMeGuY^

Ei...Mango how do you say "You Are Weak"...la lang....hehe

Anata wa yowai desu.

however it is more polite to use the person's name instead of anata.

ex: Rodney-san wa yowai desu.

[Lili]

^ Sino naman kaya ang gusto sabihan n'yan ni Rodney? And how can you be polite to someone you want to say is weak?

[paulkrps]

baka ganito:

rodney to his boss: you are weak, you will give me 300% raise next payday (emote with konting hipnotismo).

[Ratoncito]

As I go throuh these forums, I enjoy very much viewing this Spanish Heritage that Filipinas has, lovely by the way; as far as I know, Filipinas is the only asiatic country that has this Spanish Heritage with these stone strongholds like Intramuros.

In my opinion, after Second World War, there was a Cultural Break Up, adopting English as the Oficial Language and apparently, this has not brought any progress to Filipinas but loss of Cultural Identity.

Dictator Ferdinand Marcos, dropped Spanish as official in Filipinas, and now that time has gone by and with internet we can know and see other parts of our country, like Intramuros or Zamboanga,etc... and see the Spanish Roots that Filipinos have, we should reconsider recovering the language in which the first Constitution of Filipinas was written.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo speaks perfect Spanish, why not the rest of the population???? Have Filipinos been marginalized from learning and using one of their mother languages, Spanish, in which more than 300 years of their History is written and detailed??? Mexicans, Argentinian, Venezuelan, and Spanish people can read Filipinas History....... but not Filipinos....damm!! What a pity!!!!


Please, take a look at http://es.geocities.com/iberofilipino/ and http://filipinokastila.tripod.com/other.html


This is my point of view.

I will be delighted in listening to other opinions and points of view.

Un abrazo a todos y Feliz Navidad 2005-2006

Suerte.

[pau_p1]

all I can say is.. I would love to add Spanish in my vocabulary... well.. about 20% (my guess) of the Filipino language is made up of Spanish words from household items (cuchara, cucina, la mesa, baño) to numbers (dos, tres, quatro)