Let's Get Verbal

Communication is so essential especially when our loved ones are at a distant. We have now numerous techniques how to communicate to others because of the advancement of technologies smart people have created and we also use different languages.

We cannot blame people if they use different languages just like here in the Philippines. We are not all quick learners – let’s put this in our mind. But as we get older and older, it is natural for a man to discover and to learn more and more things. An instance is that we are learning to combine two (2) different languages at the same time like Filipinos commonly use, the “TagLish” – a combination of Tagalog or Filipino and English. Well, we can express our ideas better in this way.

In our school, Ilocos Sur National High School, we must speak to one another in pure or one hundred percent English and Tagalog. It must be always done inside the campus since it was one of the implemented rules and regulations of the school.

Despite the fact that we have a rule like this, honestly, a number of students, even I still do not speak Pure English and Tagalog most of the time inside the school. We used to speak using Ilocano. But during classes, our teachers do not allow us sharing and expressing our ideas or thoughts in Ilocano.

Why does our school promote communicating in one hundred percent English and Tagalog? In my own understanding, this program would serve as preparation for us for the different careers or professions we will have in the future. This institution wants us to acclimatize using pure English and Filipino so that we will not be hard up in communicating different people in our country and even around the world since English is the universal language. It would also help us especially when hunting for our jobs, specifically the time we will have our job interviews. And also in fact, many works now worldwide require workers to be speaking English fluently. Here in the Philippines, it is as well.

Yet, in communicating with pure English and Filipino, kindness is also requisite so that we won’t be misinterpreted by others that we are boasting.

Now I realize that our school really cares about us, the students, not just during the four years of our stay but also our future lives. Thank you so much ISNHS!