I need to do a historical background about the National Anthem of the Philippines but I need it in Filipino language. I have searched many sites but it's all written in English. It's hard to translate a whole English document in Filipino. Please help me or give me any sites where I can find many informations about it.

Note: I already tried this link http://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupang_Hinirang so exclude it from your answer. Thank you.
Or could anybody translate this to Filipino? http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/44850

This girl I like is from the Philippines and speaks fluent Tagalog. Today we were passing notes and writing in different languages. In Tagalog she wrote: Landi si Tanner. Can someone please translate this? p.s. Tanner is my name so I guess just translate the landi si.

If I changed my last name and then learned another Asian language and culture, could I become one of them, marry one of their women, and start a family as one of them?
I don't mean the Philippines because I've never been there. I'm in America.
I don't understand Tagalog.

if all the population of Indonesia began speaking in Portuguese wherever they went, given that they remain Muslims and that their economy remains more developed than the Philippines?

What then would the English speaking Filipinos identify the factor for their state?
i.e. What is the determinism?
Popslove, the funny thing is you haven't even considered your own grammar. I couldn't even understand, let alone get a doctor to help me understand your crap. Not worth my time and money.

So I've studied Mandarin Chinese at a university in San Francisco and began to pick up some Cantonese on the way. However, I now am studying in the Philippines, particularly in Davao City where the Chinese people here speak a language called Fookien. I tried to speak to them in Mandarin but most of them can only understand a little, especially the students my age (18). They can't understand Mandarin well and there is no one here that speaks Cantonese either. I don't know anything about the fukien language they speak here or it's origin and culture form where it came from. Many of the fookien speakers here are also celebrate Chinese traditions differently as compared to the ones in America with the common Cantonese and Mandarin speakers. This whole culture shock is new to me despite the fact that I've been to the Philippines several times before and am fluent in 2 Philippine languages. It's just that I've never known about the Chinese community here though I knew it exsisted. I do speak to the people here in Visaya and Tagalog but when it comes to the Chinese people, I speak to them in slow Mandarin even though it's hard for them to understand sometimes. This whole discovery of fukien made me curious about its cultural identity since I am part Chinese and part Filipino. Can anyone tell me all about fookien/fukien? I've done some searching on it though all the answers that I found confused me.

Are there laws which support Filipino as the National Language of the Philippines?

Hello everyone. For the past few months, I've been studying "Tagalog" which is the language of the Philippines in case you didn't know. I recently picked up "Pimsleur's Tagalog" and I'm progressing along fine. I didn't want this to be my ONLY method for learning, so I looked up some other methods.

I've read everywhere (including here on Yahoo! Answers) that conversing with your family/friends in Tagalog will help you pick up the language fast. Now, I find this hard because I don't even know what to say! My vocabulary isn't that broad and whenever they speak, I can only pick out key words and sometimes I can't even pick up any words.

Any suggestions? Should I finish my studies and get proficient before I start practicing? This is my first time actually committing to learning a language so any tips would help.

I'm ethnic Filipino borned and raised in the UK, I got a German girlfriend and I'm planning on taking her to Manila for a visit. We looked it up and decided to stay at the Manila Peninsula.
Now, I know how dangerous it is for everybody in the Philippines. I don't mind snatchings and being robbed, I'm worried about kidnappings and corrupt cops.
I'm not really concerned for myself as I can blend in the crowd easily with my dark skin (unless I start trying to speak Filipino). I'm concerned about my girlfriend, who happens to be caucasian, 25 years old, fiery blonde hair and a hot piece of ass. In other words, she would stick out like a sore thumb when mixed with Filipinos.
My question is... how safe is it really in Makati? Does the area have better security since thay have all those classy hotels and malls there? Is it even safe walking on the sidewalk around 9-10pm?
Just Makati, we're not planning on visiting Malate, Binondo, Buendia or any of those tourist unfirendly spots.

I'm trying to search, but I don't see much, its no good..........=(
I'm trying to learn it, cause i live in the Philippines, and i have to go to school there..

all i know is their SWEAR words

i'm first generation american....
my parents never taught me the philippines' national language, tho i want to learn

i live in a mostly white suburban town
and i hate it cuz there is nooo
CULTURE here...and very little filipinos reside up here
i'ma teen, so i cant move out so easily
altho i do have relatives who live in a filipino filled town...shoould i move in with them?

and dont suggest meeting filipinos or learning about filipino culture Online...
THE REAL WORLD is where i want to learn

I need any ideas for Poster Making with theme of "Wikang Filipino: Mula sa Baler hanggang buong Pilipinas." ("Filipino Language: From Baler to the whole Philippines"; Baler is a place of Aurora, Phil. where Filipino language was declared as national language of the philippines by Manuel Quezon).

I also need a slogan about it, should be in Filipino.

please HELP!!

i need it right now so i could practice drawing because we will have a poster making and slogan contest tomorrow morning.

PLEASE!!!! Any idea??? please be detailed.

I am a linguists major in school. Right now I am studying the history of Austronesian languages.

My professor explained it like this, but when I asked a Filipino person if they'd ever heard this they said they hadn't, but also admitted that they didn't know too much about the origin of the language.

Supposedly, before the Spanish came, there were 3 main languages and one of them was Tagalog. When the Spanish came the people of the Philippines adopted many, 5000+, words from the Spanish language. It is in this sense that Filipino is not synonymous would Tagalog, rather Filipino is a sub-category of Tagalog.

So while the two are not synonymous with each other, they are closely related.

I am a native Spanish speaker and when I have traveled to the Philippines I had very little problem getting around in places where English isn't widely spoken. Even people who don't speak Spanish are easy to understand because of all of the loan words from Spanish.

The Tagalog spoken before the Spanish came did not include these Spanish words.

I am confused, since Philippines has lots of dialects but only one considered language which is filipino a.k.a. tagalog.

I'm a freshman in high school, fluent in English (I hope, lol) and sorta-kinda-on-my-way to being proficient in Spanish. I practice Spanish with my mom, who is from the Philippines and speaks Tagalog.

Anyway, I LOVE languages and would really like to start learning a second. French is such a pretty language, and it's spoken in a lot of Canada, in France and some smaller surrounding European countries, and throughout Africa. It ranks as pretty useful in most polls/lists/etc. However, it seems like everyone speaks Spanish or French, and having a really unique language under my belt seems like a good idea too, so I was thinking Tagalog (Filipino) since I could talk with my family and I have heritage ties there. However, it's only spoken in one country and even then not everyone in the Philippines speaks it, so it's usefulness is limited.

So, will knowing Spanish and French give me enough of an advantage in the world as far as college/future jobs, or are they too common as 2nd-languages in America? Will learning the obscure language of my heritage end up being useless? Should I aim for something middle-ground like German or Russian maybe? Opinions please!

What is up with Filipino Americans? why do they lie about having Spanish blood in them? They don't even look Spanish. Some of them even say that todays Filipinos are actually Mexicans. I looked it up because i couldn't believe it because they look like Asians or South East Asians, and learned that only 3% of 87 million Filipinos have any European ancestry, not necessarily Spanish, but the funny thing is 97% of the Filipinos that tell me what they are say they are Spanish Filipinos. I just don't get it? why are they lying?

*note* I'm only talking about Filipino Americans here.
oh and for those who don't know why Filipinos have Spanish names, it wasnt because the have Spanish blood in them. Here is info why the Spaniards gave Filipinos Spanish names.

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/9121/surnamesfaq.html

oh and Elvi, im not saying that they are mixed with Mexicans i'm saying they are not but they tell people they are.

*and to the others, i am not cliaiming to know all Fil Ams but i know over a hundred of them due to a few circumstances such as i run the local Filipino Basketball League, and i can only go on what i hear and see obviously.
reply to SBD1.
I didnt call everyone liars, i called Filipino Americans liars, and i admit i used the wrong wording i should have said most. I have read up on Filipino history and i even know Filipinos who tell me, in fact it was those Filipinos (not the ones im accusing) that told me about the IMSCF Syndrome.

2ndly, i believe that it is you and quite a number of Fil Ams that need a shrink lol, ESPECIALLY going on the info you guys (people replying) are trying to pass up as fact. You guys are really touchy when someone publicly reveals the truth about Filipinos and the % that have Spanish. You only need to read up on The Philippines from credible research such as the sites ive been going to (www.gov.ph site from Philippines, only 1 of the sites ), to know that Your Spanish surnames were given to you and not out of ancestory.

some of you FilAms actually think like white people in the sense you group Asians as being oriental chinese or korean type Asians.
Indians dont care about being Asian, why? because its just a fact of life, they come from a country that is geographically in Asia, deal with it. Malays, Indonesians dont care being called Asian even though theyre language has alot of similaritys with Maori and Hawaiin and theyre culture is so different to an Oriental one, why? because they are in ASIA. I have been to The Philippines and Filipinos there are real nice people and they think of themselves as asian as well. Thats why i directed the question at Filipino Americans, because its the Filipino Americans that have such a problem with their identity.

seriously, some of you are real touchy and its kinda proving my point with some of your answers.

I guess the best place would be to start at the beginning. My wife and I met while I was stationed overseas. She lived in the Philippines while I was still in Japan. We got pregnant after marriage and she wanted to have her family with her when she gave birth so the baby was born in the Philippines. She was living with her family in one place as typical for filipinos so the baby had constant attention, especially from her mom. Due to some difficulties with immigration and missing paperwork, it wasnt until this year that we were able to bring the child home with us. He is now 4. I was able to visit quite a few times while he was in the Philippines. My wife's immigration was already completed so she had been working here in the US with me to save money to send home for her family. In any event, our son understood he needed to come home with his parents so we brought him back here and hes now been here with us for 3 days. It was a big change for me especially since Ive not had any time with him really so Im learning to be a dad for the first time. The other issue is that he speaks mostly Tagalog which is native language over there. He speaks a little English but I worry about what will happen when preschool times comes, which is right around the corner. Ive never trained anyone to speak, Im not sure if flash cards will work or how Im supposed to go about this? I dont want him falling behind because hes not a native English speaker. So far hes been pretty good. He plays and Ive had a day or two where mommy can sleep and Ill take him to the park with me. He doesnt ask for her and as long as I keep him entertained, seems fine. Oh yeah, with this all in mind, I shouldnt be expecting much sleep during these years correct? I just want to be sure I know what to expect. Seems like hes super active really late into the night. People have told me I should sleep as much as I can when he sleeps. Seems like hell wake up for 8 hours, take a nap and then up for another 8 hours. Its been hard cuz my wife and I are kind of on different schedules that way. She stays up with him at night for the last 4 hours or so because she can get him to sleep by coddling him. Doesnt do that with me so I usually crash a few hours before her. Then when he wakes up, Ill send her to the bedroom so that she can sleep and I try and take him out of the house somewhere to play so he can use up some energy. Its tough in WA, the weather is always so bad its hard to find places outside to take him...ideas? I guess Im just wondering if this is all normal, if the sleep thing will be something the wife and I will have to make the best of while hes this age and also if anyone is filipino reading this, if you have any suggestions for teaching him English now that hes here? He likes watching backyardigans on tv and whatnot, and knows some songs totally in English but still talks to my wife and I in Tagalog. Again, Im just worried about school and him learning a new language and how best to teach him. If anybody lives in WA area and knows of any resources I could consult about Filipino schools that teach English or something similar, that would be great. I just want the best for him and to get a good dad. As good a dad as my wife is a mother. I feel like shes having to hold up so much right now and I just want to do everthing I can to make this doable for her too. Hope I didnt write too much. I appreciate any inputs or advice, this is scary starting off. Thanks

*I've been speaking Filipino in offline situations in the Philippines.

The meaning of ASAWA, a friend sent me and EM and that word was there with no relation to the text -I think- the only thing I know, is that the girl who sent it is from Philippines.
thank you my friend, that was fast. It makes sense with the text of the message.

I'm currently starting on a teenage romance novel. I've always wanted my story setting to be abroad (usually US), but since my knowledge of the places abroad are very little, I decided to place my new story where I live - Philippines. I'm just a bit concerned about the people who will read it (most of them are non-Filipinos) since they might not like the story because of its unfamiliar setting. What do you think?

Hi, this girl from the Philippines keeps trying to talk to me on facebook (shes like 11.), but her English is hardly even understandable. How do you say "we can speak in Tagalog if you want. I am doing well, how about you?"

Like in the Philippines, how you call someone like an older cousin or sister Ate (whatever her name is). I was born in the Philippines and speak fluent tagalog, and me and my family has always spelled it Ate. But my friend wasn't born there and isn't really connected with the language insists that it's Ateh. I just noticed that some of her family spell it Ateh too. How is it really spelled, Ate or Ateh?
I can speak english, i'm not talking about ate as in "eating"... :/

Do you think that Filipino-American parents should teach their children Tagalog as well as English? Some parents don't due to the fact that they don't want their children to be confused in school. Would you ever do this?

the only thing i will say on this subject is that i was born on the philippines, moved to the states when i was 3 and learned english through watching tv. i've grown up speaking tagalog and english and never had a problem telling the difference between the two in school.

Hello. I have a question here for Filipinos (Philippines) or anybody who might know the answer.

Does anybody know why and/or how the rainbow is called "Bahaghari" in the Filipino language?

I need it in my report in my Filipino class. Many thanks in advance to those who will help. ^_^
Guys, I mean the origin of the word "Bahaghari."

I have no more time to go to the library, thats's why I'm asking online.

Thanks.

Sorry if I sound like I'm stereotyping a race but Filipinos are just racist, arent they? I'm half Filipino and half black and I can understand and speak some Tagalog. I look more black than Filipino. Anyways, I was shopping at a CVS pharmacy for make-ups and these two Filipinas were talking about me that I look so fat, ugly, so black, and that I might steal in the store because I'm black. To their surprise, I come up to them and say right into their faces, "If you have something to say, say it right in front of my face!". I've been through this situation too before when I went to the Philippines with families and really the Filipinos their are even more racist.

i was born in the philippines but then moved to the states for most of my life and now i cam back here and i want to learn to speak fluent tagalog. i can understand and speak only a little bit.... mostly anything without prefixes. when i try to learn, i always get discouraged because there are so many prefixes and tenses for a single word.... example what is the meaning of this

taka- wonder
magtaka-?
nagtaka-?
magtataka-?
nagtataka-?
pagtaka-?
nakakapagtaka-?

when do i use them in a sentace and how?! thanks

In the Philippines most of the Filipino can understand english compared to other asian countries. But how about the way they speak english? What can you say about their accent?

I am a foreigner from the US taking a class in the Philippines. It is a Communications class that is strictly tagalog speaking...only reason why I am taking it is because it is required for my course (BSIT). How does a person such as myself who is not fluent in tagalog pass a class that is in full tagalog? Does the teacher give special accommodations? I was hoping my teacher would just feel bad for me and pass me but then again, I have no idea. I took a Communications class in the US and passed with a B but the class credit was not transferred over, which sucked. Everyone keeps telling me that I should learn tagalog and become fluent...but it's easier said then done. So I typically just sit in class and pretend I am listening even though I don't understand a single word coming out of my teacher's mouth unless the teacher decides to look over at me and translate what they just told the class.

me, Filipino language!
coz i live in the Philippines!!! =)

Pls. give atleast one sentence or phrase with that language and what does it mean!!! =) lol!

I am from California and I have lived here all of my life. I am full filipino but i have a difficult time speaking tagalog. I just came back from the philippines about a week ago and people that i've never met could tell that I was not from there even before i spoke a word. I did not dress too differently from my cousins who do live there. Does anyone know how they could tell? is it my mannerism, body posture, or anything else that could have given it away?

I'm trying to learn Tagalog by talking to my cousins in the Philippines through Myspace and such in Tagalog, but I sometimes have trouble translating what they're saying, and I don't want them to tell me what they're saying because that would defeat the purpose because like I said, I only need help some of the time.

Is there anyone that is fluent in Tagalog that is willing to help me?

Thanks
Since I message with my cousins daily, I need someone that can help translate daily as well. Most messages are very short.
Yup, I'm also in the US, in Florida. Mind if I email you what I need translated?
To godsdarkwarrior2000
Or maybe I just want a shot at translating it myself first? If I can't do it myself, that's when I email someone for help. It's a hassle asking my cousins to tell me what they said since they usually only log on once a day.

I've searched yahoo answers about rosetta stone and a lot of people say that the best way to learn Tagalog or any foreign language is by actually visiting said country and conversing with them. I've lived in the Philippines for almost 3 years (2 years of high school there and 2 semesters of college) but unfortunately, I was never able to speak Tagalog nor the language spoken most at the province I stayed at,which is Ilocano. I barely know the basics. I might be going there again sometime next year or 2013 for a few years and I really want to learn Tagalog or Ilocano by then. Is Rosetta Stone a good way to go? Or what other options are there? I've seen the prices for Rosetta Stone and they are pretty expensive. Can someone suggest others that I could possibly look in to?

I would like to know which person has the most different kinds of languages.Salamat po! (Thank you!) (Tagalog from Philippines)

Philippines still uses English as an official language but is much poorer than Malaysia which eliminated it. And many Filipinos still justify that English makes them have an advantage when it does not give them any advantage whatsoever.
To say that Filipinos are favored in US or Canada as maids is an insult because if the Philippines was rich they wouldnt have to work overseas in the first place, and secondly there is nothing proud in being a domestic helper or maid that is the lowest of low jobs.

Filipinos, in the day to day life of the Philippines, is it realistic to say that the citizens speak English with each other?

Hey! I'm trying to learn tagalog, and I already learned: Nouns, verbs, past present and future tense, prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives. Is there anything else I should learn?

Btw I'm full filipino, and I'm about to move to the philippines, so i really need to learn fast.