Kuchinashi

Filipino language is like a labyrinth. It is complex and complicated. It has a lot of words. Words with the same meaning, words with different pronunciations. words with two meanings and many more.

And as a guide, here are some Filipino words that are uncommonly used or maybe you never heard of:

1. Alimuom – Mabahong singaw ng lupa pagkatapos umulan. (SENTENCE : Alimuom ang paligid dahil sa daligaang pag-ulan.)
2. Anluwage – Carpenter (SENTENCE : Mahusay na anluwage ang gumawa ng kanilang upuan.)
3. Am – Tubig na pinakuluan ng bigas. (SENTENCE : Am ang kanilang paghalili sa gatas dahil sa kahirapan.)
4. Dalubtalaan – Astronomy (SENTENCE : Maraming kabataan ang gustong mag-aral ng dalubtalaan.)
5. Karambola – Sunod-sunod na banggaan ng sasakyan. (SENTENCE : Nagkaroon ng karambola sa NLEX noong nakaraang buwan.)
6. Karumlan – Menstruation flow (SENTENCE : Uy! may napkin ka ba? May karumlan kasi ako ngayon.)
7. Pamada – Gel (SENTENCE : Ang matatanda noong unang panahon ay laging naka-pomada.)
8. Sipnayan – Mathematics (SENTENCE : Nagawa mo na ba takdang-aralin sa sipnayan?)
9. Tarangkahan – Gate (SENTENCE : Saan kaya tayo dadaan? Sa tarangkahan doon o sa tarangkahan doon?)
10. Tipig – Fold (SENTENCE : Paki tipik naman ng mga damit na bagong laba.)

I hope that by reading this, your knowledge of the Filipino language will widen and will interest you to learn about it more.

REFLECTION

Change. As years pass many things change. People, environment, weather, technology, and even our language cannot escape these changes.

Filipino language is very rich in words,  but then a lot of us don’t know them because we care more about learning a foreign language more than learning and cultivating our own. And as I am one of those.

After creating this video, I realized that our language is indeed very interesting. It has its own exotic beauty that almost no one pays attention to. An exotic beauty that we own, but we chose to ignore because we’re blinded by another beauty that will never be ours.

So as a change let us dig a little deeper about the Filipino language and discover its true beauty and charisma. It is never too late to change.