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Let's Speak Ilokano Precy Espiritu
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The

A Tagalog (from the Tagalog speaking provinces) in all probability won't be able to understand much less speak Cebuano but a Cebuano will be able to speak or at least understand Tagalog. May 5, 2011 - One of my best friend, Krizia, has a relative in Paoay who let us to stay for a sleep over in an empty house; well technically, the owner is in abroad. Apr 4, 2014 - If you happen to let these phrases slip from time to time, no one blames you. Filipino hospitality at its best. Apr 25, 2009 - Please speak more slowly, Ibaybayagmo man ti agsarita. To most Filipinos Let's not point our fingers at each other; instead, let's work together to cure our sick English before it metastasizes to the next generation. Jun 28, 2004 - Twenty years ago, the University of Hawai'i Press published Let's Speak Ilokano. It's just what It's not enough having white people gawk at me and my F/Pilipina mother in our local Uni-Mart when I speak in Ilocano to her. Please say that again, Ulitemman ti imbagam. I thirst for news from my hometown of San Nicolas, Ilocos Norte and I would open an article from my hometown newspaper and low and behold the reporting is mixed with English, Ilocano and Tagalog in the same sentence or paragraph. It was authored by Precy Espiritu, then a Ph.D. Student studying applied linguistics at UCLA. Yes, a little, Makasaoka iti Ilocano? Jan 3, 2011 - “Conversational” (as opposed to fluent) is quite hard to define, so I will simply say that I'm aiming for the same kind of level that I reached in Hungarian in two months, which you can hear me speak (with subtitles) here. Where danum is water, Danumán in Ilocano means put water in it or irrigate it (verb), or waterlogged (noun & adjective). Please write it down, Isuratmo man. I can't help notice the irony that he has made a splash all over the African and Asian world by working with the farmers in the drylands of the semi-arid tropics For his college degree, he climbed the mountain, so to speak, studying at the Mountain State Agricultural College (MSAC) in La Trinidad, Benguet, a province next to Ilocos Sur. Feb 8, 2014 - It is no secret that most Filipinos want to speak English very well.