WATCH: Black man fluent in Filipino sings ‘Mahal Na Mahal’, ‘Bakit Ba Ikaw?’
An African-American fluent in Filipino sings Sam Concepcion’s “Mahal Na Mahal” and Michael Pangilinan’s “Bakit Ba Ikaw?”
An African-American fluent in Filipino sings Sam Concepcion’s “Mahal Na Mahal” and Michael Pangilinan’s “Bakit Ba Ikaw?”
Google commemorated on Monday the 230th birthday of Francisco Balagtas, one of the Philippines’ most influential figures in literature.
The Philippines’ bet for Miss Universe Maxine Medina said she would be willing to take up a translator if need be, adding that she is proud to use such a beautiful language like Tagalog.
Ma-Yi Theater Company’s “House Rules,” a comedy about two sets of Filipino-American siblings who realize their respective parents won’t live forever, is ongoing in New York until April 16. Fil-Am
My grandson (who is in his 20s) complained about how uninteresting my columns had become since I began to list down Tagalog words he couldn’t recognize. They came from your baul, he said, they’re musty!
Today, practically all the kids I encounter in the malls are English-speaking. It seemed so ‘low class’ if one’s kids spoke in Tagalog (!)
The Tagalog that many Luzon provinces share have variations from region to region as I learned as a short-time resident of several places.
Anyone who was a child pre-World War II remembers the menfolk’s visits to one another’s homes. They enjoyed cigars or just conversation, sitting on sillas perezosas (lazy easy chairs) in the sala as if there was nothing ever urgent to do. If they were ilustrados (learned), they spoke in Spanish and all the kids around imbibed a smattering of it. “Si para si para buto ng sili!” we would mimic them.
I fretted much when I learned that Sen. Lito Lapid agonized and hesitated over interpellating pro-birth control bill (RH) senators because his poor English might result in his disastrous performance. He’d rather, methinks, shoot bandits in his cowboy movies.
New York—As this city closed (who would have thought?) and braced itself for the fierce hurricane called Irene, a close encounter of a different kind took us by surprise. It
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