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Entries Tagged as 'Language'

Some Unfinished Business

April 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There are things that I am still undecided whether I should pursue or just leave hanging. First of all, there is the Integration Program which I have not completed because my level of Dutch has not reached the minimum yet. I passed reading, writing, speaking but was quite unfortunate not to pass [...]

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Tags: Immigration · Language · Musings · Personal · Rants

Hard to Translate Tagalog words

March 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

For all of us who have English as our second language, we would sometimes have a concept or word that we try to translate but we find ourselves having a hard time giving it an exact word to replace it and instead we end up explaining the concept or dictionary meaning to the person we [...]

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Tags: Language · Philippine Facts