Learning and speaking Filipino

Title: Learning and Speaking Filipino Author: Renato Perdon ISBN: 9780646481098 Address: PO Box 1267, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010 Sydney, Australia “It is an important learning tool and a mirror of our lives,” NHI Chair Ambeth Ocampo said of Renato Perdon’s Learning and Speaking Filipino at its recent launching. “When I look through the book of author Perdon, there are two (things) I would like to say. First, anybody who has studied a foreign language, especially in school, will realise that you don’t learn a language by being taught grammar. So even if I add, say, twelve units in Spanish, I did not learn Spanish in school because I spent the entire twelve units conjugating verbs which you will never use. And you will never really get to put things together. “It is only these days that I realise that the teaching of language has changed in such a way that now people are encouraged more to talk rather than to conjugate verbs.” The pop historian admitted that he did not learn Spanish in school but by following the advice of a former member of the National Historical Institute – the late Ambassador Emilio Aguilar Cruz, who told him to read the Noli and the Fili in its original Spanish if he wanted to learn the language. Aguilar Cruz also added that he learned French from reading comic books in French, Ocampo said. Here are the rest of his comments on Learning and Speaking Filipino: “Mr. Perdon’s book is not a grammar book, but it is meant to make people speak in Filipino by using everyday language. “This book will be used by people in Australia. I hope they will use it also in the United States, where I gave a lecture at the University of San Francisco. There you find second and third generations of Filipinos actually interested in finding their roots. Because of their parents’ new experience in a new country, they were not taught nor spoken to in Filipino at home.” “These parents in the U.S. were scared that if they spoke Filipino at home their children would have a hard time adjusting. And I keep telling the old timers there that no matter how hard you try to be Americans or Australians, your skin alone will never make you white. So you might as well converse in Filipino at home because now you will spend $20,000 for them to start Filipino language classes at the university and then come to the Philippines.” Drawing from experience, Ocampo revealed, “I have seen this also in our home when we were growing up. I use to spend my summers in Pampanga, so that I could

שנה

2008

שפה

English

הוצאה

Manila Prints

מהדורות

1

עמודים

162

ISBN

9780646481098

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