LITERACY DAY

 TODAY IS LITERACY DAY around the world. 

ENGLISH is the UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE. English is widely spoken everywhere around the world. That's why in Philippines, English is our second language. The usage of English language starts in Kindergarten to Elementary, High School and College. English subject is taught in Schools, part of the Academics proven to be helpful in search for employment.

Did you know that English 5 literacy is now included to be admitted here in Canada (Immigration Process). Wow! 

What is ENGLISH 5 in College & University in the Philippines? Do you know? It's about TECHNICAL WRITING. Can you write an essay? We tackled this in 4th Year College. You have to write a report sort of like a thesis and you have to be prepared and ready for oral report, be the professor for an hour in front of the class.

So why there are some people who failed in the Immigration Process during the interview such as failing to answer the interviewer in English? Well, sometimes, the interviewer speak in "slang language or with accent hard to hear." 

Besides, if the person is bilingual or trilingual ... it takes too slow to process language. Just like those French language speaker having problems with English  As you may know so many of the Filipinos speak 3 languages. Actually every Filipino can speak Tagalog & English, however if they were born from the province they have a certain dialect that they also used in regular communication. Dialect is also a language although different from Tagalog and English. 

In China, the mainlanders speak Mandarin. Mandarin is the official language in the Government, spoken by the Aristocrats but in Hong Kong, majority of them speak Cantonese, the rest speak Fookien and Mongolian.

Remember what former Stephen Harper had quoted, "Bilingualism is evil." LOL.  You are communicating in English and you have to translate it in French. The result? TWISTED.

How about being a linguist? Dr. JOSE P. RIZAL had known so many languages, he had spoken so many languages (Tagalog, Spanish, Chinese, German, Slavic, Latin, English). Look at what happened to him.