Growing up, I was quite the anomaly to the white people of Kansas City’s suburbs. Was he Chinese? Was he Mexican? I’d play along with their guessing game, answering why I had a Spanish name or why my ...

Filipino-Australian soldiers have the opportunity to reconnect to their culture. Learning a language is made easier if done in an engaging manner. The intensive language course prepares them for ...

Danielle Colayco starts every day talking to her 5-year-old daughter, Audrey, in Tagalog. She greets her good morning, asks her some simple questions and tells her that she loves her. The ...

Tagalog courses may be introduced to Yale as early as the next academic year. KASAMA, Yale’s Filipinx club, whose name is translated from the Tagalog word meaning “together,” has advanced a proposal ...

THE national language of the Philippines is Filipino, according to the 1987 Constitution. When one hears Filipino being spoken, however, it sounds almost exactly like Tagalog. In fact, one may ...

Kim Ji Soo is still continuously learning how to speak Tagalog and remains eager to master it so he can better communicate with Filipinos. In an interview with GMA News Online during GMA Network’s ...

A Melbourne mum started a playgroup to help her child socialise and maintain fluency in Filipino, taking the initiative to preserve the language. Mother Nikki de Lima noticed that when kids start ...

Columnist's note: Since it is Philippine Independence Day on June 12, I am taking a break from my series of columns on migration linguistics and invited a scholar I respect to write on the Filipino ...