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Lawrencew
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PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 2:25 pm


Lol, I realised when I found out the chorus was in Tagalog. sweatdrop

My brother says I don't listen to lyrics in a song because I listen to so much stuff I don't understand.
PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:07 am


Drake07
There are some things that I have to correct. Natives from the Philippines are called Filipino not Philipino.

Another issue is the translation of "I love France." The translation "Mahal ko si France" or " Mahal kita France" are both incorrect since it assumes that France is a person ("si" and "kita" are only used when referring to a person). Hence, the proper translation would be "Mahal ko ang France," wherein "ang" serves like the article "the" and is applicable to any kind of noun.

Ironically, even some Filipinos still have mistakes in the proper use of their national language and it sometimes requires some good college education to realize such error. As an example, the word "subukan", which means "to secretly watch", is often mistakenly used to mean "to try". However, the correct word that means "to try" is subukin. (It uses the letter i instead of a in its suffix.)

Anyway, if you have any questions or need translation, just ask me.

Amen to that!

And, I didn't know that.. "subukan". And yet, I'm a college student..
Shame on me. XD

Add to that, my roots are from the Central Tagalog region of the Philippines. sweatdrop

Selcouth Kitty


Vajra B. Hairava

PostPosted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 5:28 pm


Tagalog is interesting. I once dabbled in it, but I kinda got bored with it. Through Tagalog I was introduced to Indonesian, which I luff.

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Ironically, even some Filipinos still have mistakes in the proper use of their national language and it sometimes requires some good college education to realize such error.


That there is some ol' fasioned prescriptivism. It isn't wrong, its different. The ideal standard speech and actual spoken language are never the same in any language, and shouldn't need to be mutually exclusive. Well, they aren't actually, but people get the idea that they are and get really uptight about proper usage of things. (Not that you are doing that, really.)
PostPosted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:26 pm


I have a friend who is phillipino and is currently learning tagalog. ^^

snubsnub


HollaAtChaBoii

PostPosted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:43 pm


I can speak fluently but I suck at writing (grammar).
I can translate though, sort of.
PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 1:34 am


biggrin I'm learning Tagalog right now- through a friend who's taking it as a college course. [He's filipino and I convinced him to do so... So, yay me~! biggrin ]

Hooooowever, his teacher isn't explaining verbs very well at all. Very little idea on how to conjugate. D; So, um... Help?~

Kalathma

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