In one of my favorite scenes in last year’s groundbreaking Filipino movie Heneral Luna, the ill-tempered general was at the train station together with his two lieutenants, about to commandeer a train ...
Manila, Philippines - Every single day for the past 10 years on BBC World News, over 350 million people from all over the world wake up to the sound of my voice. What I say can make or break their ...
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Presidential Sonas shift from English to more Filipino – analyst
MANILA, Philippines — The language Philippine presidents use in their State of the Nation Addresses (Sona) has shifted over ...
THIS is a reaction to the primer on MTB-MLE (“Never again: A nation of ‘5th graders’”) written by Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco, Ph.D., a faculty member of the Department of Linguistics at the University ...
The Philippine Trial Lawyers Association argues legal proceedings should reflect the language most Filipinos actually speak ...
For netizens, more Filipino words in the Oxford English Dictionary mean more fun. According to the dictionary’s latest update, “evidence for these usages is not just found in the Philippines but also ...
Peter Wallace’s column titled “Language the unifier” (Opinion, 2/27/14) deserves a second look if only to unbend its logic. He rues the fact that English is losing ground in the Philippines; and the ...
Dreaming about bringing prosperity to his family, Marvin Tuazon has travelled thousands of miles from the Philippines to China for work. Teaching Chinese children English has helped him earn twice as ...
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