Filipino not a ‘language of the learned,’ says columnist

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As it is, politics and greed have destroyed those hopes.

yup.

ya sure... if your native language is rich enough and deep enough and sophisticated enough and developed enough and evolved enough to put into native words all the ideas and concepts and knowledge and information that's out there

otherwise, you'll be adopting lots of foreign words and integrating those foreign words into your native language

sounds familiar?

Well, like I said, it would only be for the early years of learning. I doubt grade 1 kids would be studying decimals. linear equations and fractions.

Also, the school comparison (mother tongue vs english) came from this [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1rFhJ0HwWU]I-Witness: Don't English Me! (Episode on August 31, 2009) - YouTube[/ame] episode of i-Witness. and again I must stress, very small sample size.

and here is an old blog post by Winnie Monsod that covers what the episode shows.

http://blogs.gmanews.tv/winnie-monso...struction.html

I don't know James Soriano but he is my batch mate and I believe went through the same GS, HS, College.

Most of my friends weren't strictly or even mostly speaking in English like him.

But, I have a brother in grade school right now and most kids are English-speaking, although my brother isn't.