by: Megs S. Lunn
Taking Pride
(continuation from the last issue Mr. Hizon at Toastmasters event....)
EDUCATION
During my time, English was the medium of instruction.
When I graduated from Grade School in 1980, High School in 1984 and University in 1988, the majority of students could carry on a very decent English conversation, because during my generation we had very good teachers who encouraged us to speak the language fluently.
We either spoke in English or else we spoke in Tagalog. Mixing them up into Taglish was unacceptable.
Even earlier, during my parents’ and grandparents’ time, the country had citizens who were very good in English regardless of their educational attainment because English was widely and strictly used.
Today when I look around me and speak with the youth, I suspect we are a dwindling race. English as a second language of Filipinos is fast deteriorating.
In fact, it has become a third language after Filipino and the more widely spoken Taglish. Not many can speak at least two or three sentences of straight English.
Worse still is that the diction is twisted to favor a twang often taken as a sign of being ‘sosyal’ or wealthy.
And believe me, nothing could be further from the truth/TE
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