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Filipino, The Language That Is Not One: Ang Hayop at Malansang Isda" Has Been Uttered Through The Decades and

This document discusses the state of the Filipino language in the Philippines. It notes that while Rizal emphasized the importance of loving one's native tongue, today English is more commonly used in everyday communication. Some Filipinos can understand English terms better than Filipino terms and can count in English but not Filipino. This raises questions about where the love for the Filipino language has gone and pride in being Filipino. Promoting the Filipino language is important to prevent disunity, as a shared national language helps unite an otherwise diverse country with different cultures and languages.

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Filipino, The Language That Is Not One: Ang Hayop at Malansang Isda" Has Been Uttered Through The Decades and

This document discusses the state of the Filipino language in the Philippines. It notes that while Rizal emphasized the importance of loving one's native tongue, today English is more commonly used in everyday communication. Some Filipinos can understand English terms better than Filipino terms and can count in English but not Filipino. This raises questions about where the love for the Filipino language has gone and pride in being Filipino. Promoting the Filipino language is important to prevent disunity, as a shared national language helps unite an otherwise diverse country with different cultures and languages.

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Ortiz, Edward Jr., M.

BSE 3 Physical Science

Filipino, the language that is not one


Rizals immortal line, Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika, ay daig pa
ang hayop at malansang isda has been uttered through the decades and
passed generation after generation. But what is this line of our national hero
wants to imply? Wherein today, English is the most language that is used in
everyday communication of people. We cannot deny the fact that English
and other languages gives us immense opportunities and our national
language became useless after leaving the country.
English is no longer seen as the language of the colonial. In fact, today,
speaking Filipino now is the unfamiliar one. It is terrifying to know that some
of todays generation can understand terms stated in English rather than in
Filipino. They can count on English but cant count using Filipino language.
Teaching Filipino on the Basic Education doesnt negate the fact that we do
really have a problem when it comes to our national language.
Questions will begin to be asked. Where is the love for our own
language? Where is our pride as a Filipino? The situation is alarming. It is true
that globalization and progress are good to our country and enables us to
interact to other countries, but, how about our national language? Our
ancestors fought using our national language. Our heroes shed their blood
fighting for our independence. This is whats wrong to us, Filipino people. We
learn the basic rules and grammar of our ow n language but we do not learn
to love it.
Every country or nation has its nature to be divided at some point. In a
sense that we could attach our country as one of the developing counties of
the world. Our country is still a developing country, prone to division and
disunity. If we are going to improve our intellectual understanding in our
national language, then we can possibly place our language in the higher bar
at the hierarchy of priorities that should be taught at every home. And
denying our identity as a Filipino will yield to disunity of our country. Our
country is composed of different cultures and languages, but that doesnt
mean we are not one nation and one entity recognized as Filipinos.
Our national language, Filipino itself, is the combination of all the
various identities of the different regions in our country. Without each region,
there will be no Filipino nation.

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