Globally Yours

From now on I will be using the most powerful language in this blog. Why? Because I just want to. Seriously, I want to tell my story in a wider share of readers which is way too ambituous.

Everybody wants to learn English though it is only second widely spoken next to Mandarin. Lucky to have the American in the Philippines wayback who introduced the language and, of course, basketball. A foreign colleague asked me if we can also speak or understand Spanish and if we can, we had the two most powerful language. Unfortunately we cannot speak or understand Spanish except for those who studied in a school offering the language's course. What if we can speak Español too? Then we become a multilingual country not to mention few who knows Mandarin. How I wish. According to statistics the most spoken language are Mandarin, English, and Spanish.

Who else wants to learn a foreign language? Maybe Japanese, because you are fond of manga; Korean, maybe you are a fan of Kpop or drama series; Chinese, so that you can make "tawad" in Divisoria or Binondo with a squint-eyed sales personnel; French, to be called "sosyal". It is your choice. A dj told her listeners that she will start her Korean language class next week because she is crazy with kpop and dramas. While a friend is teaching English to Koreans. A classmate sings a Japanese anime theme but no one sings along with Jai Ho. A lone call center agent speaks French, I wonder how much he is being paid for that. A Brazilian is trying to speak Tagalog in tv. A brown-skinned kid parroting Harry Potter. See how the trend goes? That is globalization. The word that I first heard since I was a kid in a non existing local channel today. Remember RPN9? The ad with thunder wherein that time I thought the meaning of it is the world is going to end and it goes like this: "Be ready for Globalization" (thunder clashes). It takes about past a decade when I fully understand what it is. Funny right?