In one of my favorite scenes in last year’s groundbreaking Filipino movie Heneral Luna, the ill-tempered general was at the train station together with his two lieutenants, about to commandeer a train ...
I was reading your columns and noted that while there are opinions on establishing good reading habits, there seems to be no attempts to promulgate good English proficiency within young people today.
THIS is a reaction to the primer on MTB-MLE (“Never again: A nation of ‘5th graders’”) written by Ricardo Ma. Duran Nolasco, Ph.D., a faculty member of the Department of Linguistics at the University ...
For netizens, more Filipino words in the Oxford English Dictionary mean more fun. According to the dictionary’s latest update, “evidence for these usages is not just found in the Philippines but also ...
TO MAKE learning the English language more accessible — and free — language learning app Duolingo has launched an English course for Tagalog speakers. The English for the Tagalog Speakers Course is ...
AS LARGE language models (LLM) continue to be trained with Western biases, the gap between cultural context and linguistic ...
What do the terms "carnap," "comfort room" and "mani-pedi" have in common? Not much save that they're examples of what's called Filipino English. And that they are among the many new additions to the ...
Dreaming about bringing prosperity to his family, Marvin Tuazon has travelled thousands of miles from the Philippines to China for work. Teaching Chinese children English has helped him earn twice as ...