Keeping in Mind Our Mother’s Tongue

Communication is the key to understanding and to a good inter and intrapersonal relationships and learning to love and explore your dialect is the way to effective communication.  We as Ilocano love and embraces our dialect iloco, our mother’s tongue. As I grow old and learn to speak the language, I learn to love and share the beauty of our mother’s tongue. . Language learning normally occurs most intensively during human childhood. But today’s generation, children tends to embrace more the English dialect or should it is better to say that parents often teaches their children to learn the English language rather than our mother’s tongue, iloco. That maybe the reason why some children when chatting with their friends and or their neighbors they preferred to use foreign language rather than their dialect which they should know better since they are an Ilocano born kids and little by little they forget the goodness or our very own mother’s tongue. They don’t know how it feels to use our dialect in our everyday interaction with others. The feeling of being an Ilocano, the trademark reflects in the language we use, that’s when people hear u speaking they will then know from where tribe you came from. It is one of the reason why it is very important not to neglect and to still use our mother’s tongue even when we learn to speak and adapt the English or foreign language because it will define who and what we are as human beings.

 We should keep in mind that although others are using foreign dialect that sometimes we are too is encourage to do the same but we should never forget where we came from, our culture, our beliefs and that all are reflected in our dialect that’s why it is called-Our Mother’s Tongue because it is the very first language that the parents of our parents learn and that they will pass to us and we as successors of it must embrace and teach it also to our kids and to the kids of our kids as an act of gratitude and appreciating showing we are proud who we are. Never ever put down yourselves, you should be proud who you are! So, always keep in mind the beauty and greatness of using what defines us-our Mother’s Tongue.