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    The document discusses the relationship between culture and language in the Philippines. It explains how Tagalog has multiple words to describe rice that reflect its importance in Filipino culture, unlike English. While the author is fluent in English, they felt less connected to their Filipino identity for not speaking Tagalog. Translating classic Filipino texts, they realized some meanings were lost in translation. This motivated the author to start learning Tagalog later in life, despite struggles, so they can better understand their culture and feel more Filipino.

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    The document discusses the relationship between culture and language in the Philippines. It explains how Tagalog has multiple words to describe rice that reflect its importance in Filipino culture, unlike English. While the author is fluent in English, they felt less connected to their Filipino identity for not speaking Tagalog. Translating classic Filipino texts, they realized some meanings were lost in translation. This motivated the author to start learning Tagalog later in life, despite struggles, so they can better understand their culture and feel more Filipino.

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    The document discusses the relationship between culture and language in the Philippines. It explains how Tagalog has multiple words to describe rice that reflect its importance in Filipino culture, unlike English. While the author is fluent in English, they felt less connected to their Filipino identity for not speaking Tagalog. Translating classic Filipino texts, they realized some meanings were lost in translation. This motivated the author to start learning Tagalog later in life, despite struggles, so they can better understand their culture and feel more Filipino.

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    Katrin Ysabelle C.

    Engo Sec 6 sub 2

    My Country’s Language

    “Malaki ang nagagawa ng kultura ng isang mananalit sa mga pamamaraan at manipestasyon


    ng paggamit ng kanyang wika” (Fermin sa Salindaw, 2012). Culture and language are deeply
    interrelated because of how language can maintain and express the ideas of one’s culture. Give
    rice for example. According to the video UP Talks (Galletes, 2019), the term ‘Rice’ is used for
    all the kinds of Bigas. Adjectives are given to the words in order to describe the state of the rice
    such as Burnt for overcooked rice, Uncooked for unprocessed rice, and so on. However, if we
    look at Tagalog, we can see that there is more than one word used for ‘Rice’. Palay for
    unprocessed rice, Bigas for uncooked processed rice, Kanin for cooked rice, Tutong for burnt
    rice, and so on. Why is this so? Because compared to the US or England where English
    originated from, rice is commonly eaten here in the Philippines, thus making our language have
    more than one word used for rice. The same goes for our other languages here in our country.
    Our country’s language stemmed from our culture. The vocabulary of our language comprises
    everything our culture has, which is why there are certain words in English that do not have a
    direct translation to Tagalog and vice versa. This is how our culture and language are deeply
    rooted with one another. 

    Although I do take pride in speaking English fluently, there are multiple occasions where I’d
    ask myself ‘Am I less Filipino for not speaking my country’s language?’. I had only discovered
    the importance of Tagalog by the time high school ended. Ever since I was young, I’ve been
    taught English because according to my parents, it is the universal language that is commonly
    used especially in school. So since then, I’ve been using English only except for subjects such as
    Araling Panlipunan and Filipino. There are times where my teachers in those subjects would
    question if I grew up in the states because of it. I was even told that my accent in Tagalog was
    weird, which further demotivated me from learning the language.

    Just because I can’t speak Tagalog, doesn’t mean I don’t love my country. But even though I
    tell myself this, I always go back to the question I mentioned above. This feeling further
    deepened when I started learning literature in my Filipino classes such as Ibong Adarna, Florante
    and Laura, Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. Unlike my other peers, I had to take an
    extreme amount of time reading these which usually took weeks to several months. I had to
    translate them from Filipino to English word by word in order to understand the whole story.
    While translating them, I noticed that there are some phrases or words that lose their meaning
    once they're translated into English. This made me notice the significance of my own language
    and also drove me to start speaking Tagalog, albeit rather slowly. For now, I still can’t speak
    Tagalog straight and I am still not confident in using it for my school works. But I slowly started
    incorporating Tagalog in informal meetings, when I recite in class, or even in my everyday life
    when conversing with other people (Taglish, to be exact). Although I started later than others, I
    still have a lifetime to master my country’s language.   

    References:
    Galletes, F. (2019 August) UP Talks | Wika at Kultura [Video File]. YouTube.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj6R04h3lq4

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