Bruneians want to learn Filipino, too
By Tony AlabastroTwenty-three Bruneians attended the Filipino language class opened recently by the Universiti Brunei Darussalam’s (UBD) Language Centre.
Twenty-three Bruneians attended the Filipino language class opened recently by the Universiti Brunei Darussalam’s (UBD) Language Centre.
The Tagalog word for it cannot be searched in the Internet which can otherwise provide the translation of any word in any language on earth. The Internet’s dictionary definition of misogyny is a hatred or dislike for women or girls as manifested in acts of discrimination, denigration and violence towards them and in their sexual objectification.
In this age of globalization, nothing could be more difficult for a Filipino living abroad than to work for the preservation of one’s own language and culture. But Dr. Ruth Elynia S. Mabanglo is not so easily discouraged.
Some Filipinos here might prefer to converse in English with that twang, but compatriots in Canada are hanging on to their mother tongue, spreading their home language across the North American country.
Dozens of Filipino hospital workers in California will share a nearly $1 million settlement in a lawsuit claiming they were targeted by a rule requiring English only at work, federal officials said Monday.
“¡Hola! Me llamo Kristine. ¿Como te llamas?” If all goes well, Filipino high school students in a few years will be speaking the language of our forefathers—for most of them anyway.
The Assistant Attorney General (AAG) of Guam is in hot water after an anonymously posted YouTube video revealed alleged racist remarks he made towards the local Filipino community. The Philippine Consul General’s Office plans to meet with the Guam Bar Association to find out whether or not AAG Ben Abram’s remarks warrant an ethics complaint, [...]
“It’s like taking a nursing course all over again, but this time, in Japanese.” That is what Filipino nurses here told Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz when they met on Sunday and asked the labor chief for help in hurdling the national nursing board exams of Japan.
Of all the comments and criticisms my column on language received, one stood out for me: That the whole debate over James Soriano’s essay and on the roles of English and Pilipino in the world of Filipinos has been too focused on Tagalog.
SAN FRANCISCO—My wife and I decided early on that Tagalog was going to be our sons’ first language. It wasn’t easy. In his first days in pre-school, our first-born was miserable, intimidated by a world in which pretty much everyone spoke English. But his pediatrician said not to worry about it. Experts said not to [...]
Four Filipino-American health workers, who were fired for speaking Tagalog in the workplace, have won the discrimination lawsuit they filed against the Bon Secours Health System, a hospital based in Baltimore, Maryland.
The government aims to send more professional service providers to Japan, by asking the Japanese government to reduce barriers to entry.
