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SAVING THE DYING PHILIPPINES LANGUAGES: Multiple official languages model is best, but what about...

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO In brief, the difficulty in learning Tagalog by foreigners (and outsiders such as Visayan children) is intrinsic to Tagalogā€™s grammar....

SAVING THE DYING PHILIPPINES LANGUAGES: Multiple official languages model is best, but what about...

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO THE CRITERIA One, it should be a minority language. This is the most important criterion. As explained above, a minority language...

Monumental laziness

BY EDISON MARTE SICAD ā€œI like the word ā€˜indolenceā€™. It makes my laziness seem classy.ā€ ā€” Bernard Williams A FRIEND once shared to me how he...

Saving dying Philippine languages, 5

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO THERE IS a biological basis for multilingualism. The human brain is hardwired to learn multiple languages, and this is evidenced...

Saving dying Philippine languages, 4

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO WE HAVE to acknowledge that the makers of a Constitution are human and humans have made and could make mistakes,...

Saving dying Philippine languages, 3

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO 1987 Constitution The 1987 Philippine Constitution does not mandate for the development and adoption of a common national language based onā€¦ā€œone...

Saving dying Philippine languages, 2

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO ART. XIV SEC.6. The national language of the Philippines is Filipino. As it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched...

Saving dying Philippine languages, 1

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO THE MOTHER Tongue-Based Multilingual Education (MTB-MLE) is officially dead. Republic Act No. 12027, which has recently lapsed into law, has discontinued...

SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8: Big double mammal brains trumped the...

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO (Part 5) HOMO erectus lived from almost two million to around 30,000 years ago (a point in time when Homo sapiens...

SURPRISES IN THE CLASSIFICATION OF LIVING ORGANISMS, 8: Big double mammal brains trumped the...

BY DR. JOSE PALU-AY DACUDAO (Part 4) AMONG mammals, humans and oceanic dolphins have the largest brain to body mass ratio. There are numerous theories on why...