#i love gushing abt language since my mom speaks kapampangan‚ pangalatok (she insists on calling it that instead of pangasinense) & bicolano | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

mzqt · 17 hours ago

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the best way for me to get in tune of my own native language is to just start translating a bunch of random text from my interests be it games, song lyrics, books, etc... something so liberating just piecing together words and coming up with ways on how to say certain phrases in another language

#i remember years ago in my free time i was on my old beaten-up laptop translating like the first few chapters of death note in filipino lol #dont know where the laptop is or where the files have gone it's probably still here somewhere #my translations were very literal and had rough grammar but god was it fun to see characters speaking my mother tongue #can say i improved a lot on my translating skills now especially in terms of interpreting more complex/poetic text #i love gushing abt language since my mom speaks kapampangan‚ pangalatok (she insists on calling it that instead of pangasinense) & bicolano #relatives from my mom's side speaks kapampangan too so i picked up some of the phrases but naturally forgot most of them which i regret #i need to start locking in to earn the polyglot title #txt

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