Growing up, I was quite the anomaly to the white people of Kansas City’s suburbs. Was he Chinese? Was he Mexican? I’d play along with their guessing game, answering why I had a Spanish name or why my ...

Filipino-Australian soldiers have the opportunity to reconnect to their culture. Learning a language is made easier if done in an engaging manner. The intensive language course prepares them for ...

Tagalog courses may be introduced to Yale as early as the next academic year. KASAMA, Yale’s Filipinx club, whose name is translated from the Tagalog word meaning “together,” has advanced a proposal ...

THE national language of the Philippines is Filipino, according to the 1987 Constitution. When one hears Filipino being spoken, however, it sounds almost exactly like Tagalog. In fact, one may ...

Danielle Colayco starts every day talking to her 5-year-old daughter, Audrey, in Tagalog. She greets her good morning, asks her some simple questions and tells her that she loves her. The ...

A Melbourne mum started a playgroup to help her child socialise and maintain fluency in Filipino, taking the initiative to preserve the language. Mother Nikki de Lima noticed that when kids start ...

Columnist's note: Since it is Philippine Independence Day on June 12, I am taking a break from my series of columns on migration linguistics and invited a scholar I respect to write on the Filipino ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new gallery exhibit at the East-West Center invites guests on a journey throughout the diverse cultures of the Philippines during Filipino American History Month.

While on my way to my first class of the morning, the buzz of my phone is a familiar and endearing feeling. Since high school, I always get the same message from my Mom, who usually works through the ...