2009-06-28

My Five year daughter confided me when were about to sleep last night. “Mama I have a difficulty in reading “tagalog” in my Filipino subject, my tutor is complaining why I can’t read and pronounce the word properly.” Oh! poor little girl! I told her to keep practice reading tagalog books specially her school books. When she was a baby I used to communicate with her in a foreign language (English) until now. Some of my friends told me not too much in using English language when communicating with her because when she will go to school she might have difficulty in understanding and talking our primary language which is “tagalog.” It’s true, now she’s experiencing it. She is expose to television, video games like psp and x-box which is the language is foreign. This late afternoon, I had a chance to teach her to read her tagalog school book. At first she was ashamed to read the words and after 15 minutes of reading the book she told me “Mama I’m so tired, I want to take a rest? and I want to play my psp or watch my favorite cartoon movie, please?! I don’t forced her to read and practice more, I know she will get over it and I’m confident, she’s good in academic and she will maintain her higher grade. Children are easy learners. My 9 and 5 year old daughters love “Naruto” series and I’m amazed because they can sing all the songs of the series and they sang it with all their hearts. All songs are Japanese and they memorized every words without any understanding of what they are singing. I know in time she will learn how to read and talk our primary language which is “tagalog.” Here’s my daughters favorite song of Naruto Shippuuden Series.

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