Are you familiar with the proper grammar on your native dialect?
By Andyvil
@Andyvil (793)
Philippines
September 28, 2011 7:16am CST
I've noticed that a lot of my fellow Filipinos are very conscious about proper pronunciation and grammar whenever they speak in English. Maybe its because english has become our second dialect that most Filipinos even though they haven't finished elementary knows how to speak in English. That is why I am wondering if there is a proper way of speaking in my own dialect. Although we were taught how to speak in filipino, there are a lot of dialects here in the Philippines asides from filipino/tagalog. My native dialect is bisaya and it is widely spoken in my country. I just wonder if I make mistakes in pronunciation or if I my grammar was right or wrong in my native dialect. Are you aware if you have the proper pronunciation or grammar when you speak in your native dialect?
3 responses
@grecychunny26 (9483)
• Philippines
30 Sep 11
I am a Filipino but I admit that I do not speak that language in right grammar or in right pronunciation. I speak the way I learned from school during Filipino subject but some of it are totally forgotten because, at present I am focus on English since I get job by writing Articles in English and a forum like these needs you to express yourself in English so some of the learnings you learn about Filipino when you are young has gone deeper. So the answer is no, I am not sure if I pronounced the Filipino language articulately. I noticed that we usually say "unang beses" which is wrong, "beses" mean the second or third time we repeat what we did, so it should be "unang pagkakataon". i am normally hearing "unang beses" on every Filipino at present.
@Andyvil (793)
• Philippines
30 Sep 11
Although I am a Filipino I am terrible in tagalog. When I was in manila back when I was taking the board exam, people can really tell by my accent that I am not from manila. The funny thing is, I am pretty fluent in english. Although I do make the occasional mistakes in grammar. Since I rarely speak in tagalog I tend up to mix it up with bisaya and I made a lot of mix ups in my language that most of the people I talk to ended up confused. Anyway I guess this is one disadvantage in living in an archipelago. We have to learn a lot of dialects in order to communicate with our fellow Filipinos.
@Andyvil (793)
• Philippines
28 Sep 11
It is really ironic since kids in my country are being taught English since preschool up to college but there isn't a single subject taught with regards to my native dialect. I even doubt if there are books that teach the proper pronunciation of my native dialect.
@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
8 Aug 12
hi,
i am familiar to the proper grammar of my native dialect but as of now that i often there,i forgot some words of my native dialect,some of them are very deep words that i dont know the meaning,but still i will ask that to my sister who really knows a lot of words even its deep.my native dialect is Ilocano.
