Filipino, Our National Language: be proud!

           

             It was the 30^th day of December, 1937 when the President of the Philippines, Manuel L. Quezon also known as the “Ama ng Wikang Pambansa,” proclaimed that Filipino is the National Language of Filipino people. Every year Filipinos are celebrating the month of the national language during the month of August and in this year’s theme is “Tatag ng Wikang Filipino, Lakas ng Pagka-Filipino.”

                “Ang hindi magmahal sa sariling wika ay higit pa sa hayop at malansang isda,” Dr. Jose P. Rizal said in his poem entitled Sa Aking Mga Kababata. The national hero refers to the Filipino people who are not proud and using the national language. National language helps the nation be united. It also help Filipino people to be able to communicate and understand each other even if they came from the northern part of Luzon and southern part of Mindanao and they would not get an interpreter to translate what they are talking. Sometimes, some Filipino who went country, they adopt the culture even the language of that country and when they come back in the Philippines they would rather speak in other language than Filipino. These people are not respecting and loving the national language instead they are disrespecting it and ashamed of speaking it. Are they true Filipino? They are not loyal in the country they came from and one way of proving it is that they are not speaking and using the national language.

                I salute to those Filipino people who are speaking and using the national language. Filipino should use, love and respect by the Filipino people. Filipino binds us as one nation and this makes Filipinos understand each other. Be proud of our own National Language, Filipino.