Language Barrier

The Spaniard's tool in preventing the unity of the Filipinos during their colonization was teach them different languages, well it was good strategy until 3 centuries later, when Filipinos started yearning for liberty.
My uncle who is a German would teach us the language but we never took it seriously, not until my favorite cousin in the whole wide world was formally adopted by my aunt and my German uncle . The whole summer of  2000 was all about sitting beside my cousin and listening to them repeating the words all over again.  If you pronounced it differently it means a different thing. If you know what I mean.  What leads me to this entry was an experience I have with our Japanese guest, who is already old and her daughter was sick, as much  as I want to help her, the Niponggpo was really too much I can handle, in other words "NOSEBLEED" , "EPISTAXIS" , "NASAL HEMORRHAGE".

What I did was just to really listen beyond the words but to actually listened to her , through her actions. No behavior is accidental, it has meanings, so the way you look at the guest, lets call her, Ms, Sailormoon ., you would really sense that she is really worried.

Me (Pointing to her daughter) : Daughter ...Hospital ...Go..Now
Sailormoon: klhds;lhas;lkhdkhdsadhah  (speaking in Niponggo)
Me: ok ok 

after 3 hours in the hospital
Sailormoon: lkjagaijgailag ...... thank you ....thank you... sorry ...sorry

Its funny how a simple thank you and sorry can melt your heart. 

 I wish I know how to speak other languages, I want to learn German, Niponggo, and Spanish. I don't know why I am not fond of French and Italian language , but if you say French and Italian cuisine, that is totally a different story =) 

I think I'll probably put that in my long term goals, to learn a different foreign language =)