Diwa - with strong pilipino aksent? Accent that is…
OMG. Since Diwa found the special someone, she has warned me that from this point on she will be speaking in English as opposed to the normal ‘tagalog’ among friends and her girlfriend. As you all probably know, my boyfriend is an American-born Filipino. He never got the chance to learn the language and he used to be so annoyed whenever my friends and I will speak Filipino. Diwa told him the other day, “I know what you feel now! I was at a party last weekend with my girlfriend and her Thai friends. I couldn’t understand a word they were saying! So, from now on, I will be sensitive to you ’cause I know how annoying it is!’
Ever since, Diwa has tried very hard to speak in English even among our Filipino friends. Even with her accent, she doesn’t care and I am glad. Speaking of different languages, I have been meaning to learn Spanish and I know that it is difficult to learn the proper pronunciation of words in Spanish but I am willing to learn. I also learned that there are
Spanish language training courses that I could take online or even enroll myself at a local community college. I have always wanted to be multi-lingual.
I remember as a child, I would go to our home library and scan books. I love to read and one of the books that I found while browsing through my mom’s collection of books is a book about learning how to speak German. It has illustrations that indicate the meaning of the sentences just like the Rosetta Stone language DVD’s today. The only difference is, you will not be able to hear the pronunciation like you do today - you have to understand the punctuations and marks they put in each word to be able to pronounce it properly.
Someday I will learn two more languages. One of them will be Spanish and I am also hoping to master French. Although I am more inclined to visit Spain first before France.
So Diwa - I admire your confidence and keep up the good work. You are doing quite well. Why don’t you take the Spanish language training courses with me? Maybe it will give you a different accent other than the ’strong pilipino aksent?! 
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