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It’s very disturbing how people laugh at someone who’s not, let’s say, poor in English both oral and written. Anywhere in the world we are all aware that English is the international language that could help us to communicate in a foreign country. Americans do speak it so well and some part of Europe and Australia with dissimilar accent, the rest speaks in their own language or in different dialect too. Philippines is known to have a skillful tongue for speaking English which somehow made us having the courage to work abroad, also some of the US base company prefer to hire workers from here like in BPO and online English teacher as well in neighboring countries like Japan, China, and Korea. I’m a pure blooded Filipino and being a Filipino is tough if you’re the same like ours. Here, people tend to subject a person as COOL if he speaks English but if you are one of those who tries to speak it on the top most of your capability and if people finds it wrong they would LAUGH AT YOU TO DEATH! But why!? We are just Filipino and I guess we have the right to have mistakes anything that has something to do with English. Me myself I admit I’m not good with it I don’t have that so called Traditional English Tongue but I’m trying to learn by reading literatures and watching English dubbed movies without a subtitle LOL!
Since pre-school we are already taught English all the way to College. Imagine it’s almost two decades of learning English from school. Fortunately, some of us adopt it quickly they sometimes overemphasize it by combining a dialect with English, like Tagalog and English which gave birth to what they call TAGLISH. What I just don’t like about their BRILLIANT idea is that the speaker seems to have an UNKNOWN MENTAL ILLNESS. Epileptic-psychotic-schizophrenia something??
When a foreigner like American or Russian or European (but we commonly thought them as American whatever their race was as long as their skin is as white as dust in Venus) came across with an ordinary Filipino and started to ask questions, that one Filipino would regularly smile knowing that he know nothing what that foreigner knows or sometimes we would ask for help of the other people around. But the great thing was we are sociable not just towards our fellow country men but also on our visitors from different countries, and take note, that is with a smile.
As what I’ve observed Filipino seems to believe that if you are a college student or a college graduate or studying in a prestigious school or working in a establishment where speaking English is a must or simply you-are-a-son-of-a-rich then you are labeled as “English Proficient.” Most people that I’ve encounter having problem in English are those who really recognize English but in different ways. There are some who understands it from the speaker but don’t know how to respond, it makes their tongue tangled and minds go running wild thinking of what to say but ended up speaking like a cave man. There are also some that are so proud that they can write it like a boss but not that they can speak it and the other way around. And some that can write but misspelled a few words and a wrong grammar structure like they are sending an urgent letter to Pentagon for being chased by a living dead that has been affected by the Chernobyl incident then die and turned into zombie, a four-legged-winged-hell-bound-zombie. And the last one are those who speaks English like “the hell I don’t care” whether they are doing it right or mostly wrong, uprising a revolution to form a new language, even easier but mostly laughter. Well, what do you expect? Like what I’ve said we are just Filipino the same with the other country where English is not so familiar. It’s definitely very important to understand English but it has nothing to do with fools who think they are greater than the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greek Mythology.
ENGLISH, the language of the world, the laughter mechanism for others, but a tool to discriminate which in turn making them lesser than anyone else.
It’s very disturbing how people laugh at someone who’s not, let’s say, poor in English both oral and written. Anywhere in the world we are all aware that English is the international language that could help us to communicate in a foreign country. Americans do speak it so well and some part of Europe and Australia with dissimilar accent, the rest speaks in their own language or in different dialect too. Philippines is known to have a skillful tongue for speaking English which somehow made us having the courage to work abroad, also some of the US base company prefer to hire workers from here like in BPO and online English teacher as well in neighboring countries like Japan, China, and Korea. I’m a pure blooded Filipino and being a Filipino is tough if you’re the same like ours. Here, people tend to subject a person as COOL if he speaks English but if you are one of those who tries to speak it on the top most of your capability and if people finds it wrong they would LAUGH AT YOU TO DEATH! But why!? We are just Filipino and I guess we have the right to have mistakes anything that has something to do with English. Me myself I admit I’m not good with it I don’t have that so called Traditional English Tongue but I’m trying to learn by reading literatures and watching English dubbed movies without a subtitle LOL!
Since pre-school we are already taught English all the way to College. Imagine it’s almost two decades of learning English from school. Fortunately, some of us adopt it quickly they sometimes overemphasize it by combining a dialect with English, like Tagalog and English which gave birth to what they call TAGLISH. What I just don’t like about their BRILLIANT idea is that the speaker seems to have an UNKNOWN MENTAL ILLNESS. Epileptic-psychotic-schizophrenia something??
When a foreigner like American or Russian or European (but we commonly thought them as American whatever their race was as long as their skin is as white as dust in Venus) came across with an ordinary Filipino and started to ask questions, that one Filipino would regularly smile knowing that he know nothing what that foreigner knows or sometimes we would ask for help of the other people around. But the great thing was we are sociable not just towards our fellow country men but also on our visitors from different countries, and take note, that is with a smile.
As what I’ve observed Filipino seems to believe that if you are a college student or a college graduate or studying in a prestigious school or working in a establishment where speaking English is a must or simply you-are-a-son-of-a-rich then you are labeled as “English Proficient.” Most people that I’ve encounter having problem in English are those who really recognize English but in different ways. There are some who understands it from the speaker but don’t know how to respond, it makes their tongue tangled and minds go running wild thinking of what to say but ended up speaking like a cave man. There are also some that are so proud that they can write it like a boss but not that they can speak it and the other way around. And some that can write but misspelled a few words and a wrong grammar structure like they are sending an urgent letter to Pentagon for being chased by a living dead that has been affected by the Chernobyl incident then die and turned into zombie, a four-legged-winged-hell-bound-zombie. And the last one are those who speaks English like “the hell I don’t care” whether they are doing it right or mostly wrong, uprising a revolution to form a new language, even easier but mostly laughter. Well, what do you expect? Like what I’ve said we are just Filipino the same with the other country where English is not so familiar. It’s definitely very important to understand English but it has nothing to do with fools who think they are greater than the Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greek Mythology.
ENGLISH, the language of the world, the laughter mechanism for others, but a tool to discriminate which in turn making them lesser than anyone else.
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