Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Lenguahe

As I tap into my keyboard thinking of the next thing to write, I suddenly remembered  my sister's "feeling" towards some people who makes fun of others while they are speaking the English language. My family and I were born and raised in the Philippines. We are Filipinos. And as Filipinos who was born in to the biggest island in the country, Luzon, we  spoke of the Filipino language, and the dialect is "tagalog". A few of my cousins were born in Canada ( my mom's sister migrated there before she got married). And as a result, they only know, French and English. They know nothing of the Tagalog language. They understand a bit because of their mom.

Anyways, my two sisters are now living  in Canada, after their immigration application was approved a couple of years ago, and it is through them that she learned that some kids there would make fun of the other "asian" kids because of how they speak English. It sometimes sucks when other Filipinos try to think of you lowly because one cannot speak proper English. Or whenever you got your grammar wrong.

And because of this, I am writing my blog on my way, the Filipino way. Where I am most comfortable, Tag-lish way.

Tagal ko ng hindi nakakasulat. The post I did was 2012. February 2014 na. Heart's day na. Bahala kayo kung hindi nyo naiintindihan. Buti nga hinde kopa isinulat "jejemom" way. Hehe.