Filipino: Not a Lost Cause

Truly, it is hard to love and prosper with something you hardly understand. This was the burden faced by scholars John Teodoro and Virgilio Almario, PhD. The aforementioned scholars spoke at “Diyalogo, a forum hosted by Baybayin held on August 17 at the Rizal Library Study Area.”

In an article published by www.theguidon.com in 2015, the two stressed the importance of language in one’s holistic formation. Language has a profound capability to shape a person and understanding it to the best of one’s ability will ensure its proper usage.

Unfortunately, it is the norm of today to not be aware of one’s language—both its history and its implications to a person. Filipino—an intrinsically diverse language—has the rare capability of bonding people who hail from different backgrounds, beliefs, and races. Making certain that the Filipino language performs what it was made to do in the first place, to be the uniting force behind the Filipino people, is a duty every Filipino must perform.