OUR MOTHER TONGUE, OUR POWER

Martes, Enero 17, 2012

     Language defines the type of person we are generally and it has had an effect on our choices as well as our lifestyle. Language has become our way of seeing life in a different perspective. It has everything, our culture, our family and even our home.
     As a student, I can’t just resist myself to become ambitious and love other language, feeling high in speaking it and looking down on the language that I usually use. This is just a trait of me and even many people in this country. We didn’t knew, its importance to us. In other places, it is just like a shame if I use it because for many, they seem to react weird just like asking themselves “What are they saying?”. This is the main cause of out anxieties in speaking our mother tongue. But I just realized, there’s nothing wrong. This is our form of speaking and most of all, our trademarks. The honors this language gave to us, products of this language, presidents who use this language and who became president with this mother tongue. It made me say that without language, one is voiceless, with imperfect language, one is perceived as imperfect, and with standard language, one is superior, at least from the perspectives of those who possess the standard command of language.
     Language is many things: the arrangement of words in a particular order, uttered in a certain way, denoting a certain meaning; it is a political instrument which evokes images and motion. The learning of one's mother tongue will provide an individual the right to study their culture and will also preserve family bonds and lessen cultural conflicts between generations. Language gave honor to us, we ILOCANOs in the Philippines and in the world.

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