'Siguro mga lima na taon, and importante para sa akin marunong ng Tagalog kasi maraming kaibigan, at important din para sa career ko-to my work-so, kaya, I'm studying Tagalog.' 'Kasi yung plan ko, to stay here long,' said Hideo. Model-actor Hideo Muraoka, whose heritage is half Spanish and half Japanese, has spent some P43,000 on one-on-one Filipino language lessons. 'Filipinos are everywhere, so learning Filipino and speaking to people using Filipino-you're gonna make friends a lot faster.' 'You know, what better way to connect with a person than to speak their own language,' said Michael Martin, a training and development manager at language education company Berlitz. It also helps that Pinoys themselves are hospitable and accommodating with regard to teaching their own language, say some foreigners. This quick adoption has also given rise to Filipino's freewheeling sibling, Taglish, which not only mixes Tagalog words with English, but uses Tagalog conjugation for English words as well. These include Spanish, Malay, Chinese, and Arabic. The KWF also chalks it up to the language being made up of words borrowed from, and influenced by, the languages of the country’s colonizers and the merchants our ancestors once traded with.

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