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  2. List of regional languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Mother Tongue as a subject is primarily taught in kindergarten and grades 1, 2 and 3. The adoption of regional languages as a medium of teaching is based on studies that indicate that the use of mother tongues as languages of instruction improves the comprehension and critical thinking skills of children and facilitates the learning of second ...

  3. Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Most Chinese Filipinos raised in the Philippines, especially those of families of who have lived in the Philippines for multiple generations, are typically able and usually primarily speak Philippine English, Tagalog or other regional Philippine languages (e.g., Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Ilocano, etc.), or the code-switching or code-mixing of these ...

  4. Languages spoken by presidents of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    Born and raised in Tayabas, Manuel L. Quezon spoke Tagalog, Spanish and, later in life, English. Although Quezon initially refused to learn English, believing that the Americans betrayed the Filipino people after the Philippine Revolution, he began to study the language seriously after befriending Harry Hill Bandholtz, who even offered to pay him to learn the language.

  5. Hiligaynon language - Wikipedia

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    May EXIST idô dog (a)ko 1SG May idô (a)ko EXIST dog 1SG I have a dog. Hiligaynon linkers When an adjective modifies a noun, the linker nga links the two. Example: Ido nga itom 'black dog' Sometimes, if the linker is preceded by a word that ends in a vowel, glottal stop or the letter N, it becomes acceptable to contract it into -ng, as in Filipino. This is often used to make the words sound ...

  6. Bong Joon-ho - Wikipedia

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    Bong Joon-ho was born on September 14, 1969, in Bongheok-dong [], Daegu, South Korea. [10] He has three older siblings. [11] His mother, Park So-young, was a housewife; his father, Bong Sang-gyun, was a graphic designer, industrial designer, professor of art at Yeungnam University, and head of the art department at the National Film Institute.

  7. Philippine English - Wikipedia

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    This meteoric growth was sustained post-World War II, much further through Philippine mass media (e.g., newsprint, radio, television), where English also became the dominant language, [14] and by the ratification into the current Philippine Constitution in 1987, both Filipino and English were declared co-official languages, while removing ...

  8. Bisayan languages - Wikipedia

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    The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages [1] are a subgroup of the Austronesian languages spoken in the Philippines.They are most closely related to Tagalog and the Bikol languages, all of which are part of the Central Philippine languages.

  9. Bong (term) - Wikipedia

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    Bong is a neologism that originated in cosmopolitan India in the 1980s as a slightly pejorative exonym for the educated middle-class Bengalis from the Indian state of West Bengal. In the 21st century, the term became a self-appellation of pride through the use of satire and self-reflexive irony by the Bengali blogging community, which came to ...