It was around the year 2007 and 2008 when it was proposed that the subjects Mathematics and Science will be taught in "tagalog". Thereon, debates and negative reactions were unending. A year after that, another proposal surfaced wanting the medium of instruction in all schools be in English. Confusing?? Yes, it is!
In this country, it is assumed that people are more fluent in Filipino rather than English which is not really the case. With lots of dialects that we have, there are people who are not fluent speaking tagalog and/or English. Most of our fellow countrymen are more confident speaking their own dialect.
In the school where I graduated, most of our subjects were taught in English except Filipino and History or Sibika at Kultura as we call it before which I believe it’s just but right to teach such subjects in their own language of distinction.
However in order for us to be competitive enough especially in the global market, being able to speak and write the English language would definitely bring us on a higher level.
Teaching math and science in tagalog would be very difficult since terminologies, formulas and principles of these two subjects would be very difficult to understand once it is translated in other dialect.
Recently, bestselling books such as Twilight Saga, Hunger Games Trilogy & Fifty Shades of Grey were translated in Tagalog by Precious Hearts Romances. When the publisher said that bestselling books have translations in French, German, Chinese and Nihonggo, they thought of translating too in pinoy language. I myself reacted negatively about it. Not because of I don’t want it in Talagog but hey, I hope they did justice through the translation. I think it would do well enough if they decoded the book based on context rather than translating it word per word. Twilight was called TakipSilim. How about Hunger Games and Fifty Shades of Grey, how would you translate these titles in tagalog?
I think I would prefer Pol Medina's Pugad Baboy instead of reading these tagalize versions even if we call them best sellers. The essence would still be the same. They would make me laugh!
I think I would prefer Pol Medina's Pugad Baboy instead of reading these tagalize versions even if we call them best sellers. The essence would still be the same. They would make me laugh!
