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Written by anang

Tuesday, 01 July 2008

Sessions 1-4 (Learning the building blocks of the Filipino language including vocabulary, grammar, etc):
Tuesday, July 8, 7-9pm | Thursday, July 10, 7-9pm | Tuesday, July 15, 7-9pm | Thursday, July 17, 7-9pm

Session 5 (Workshop on the need to reclaim the Filipino language and history of struggle):
Tuesday, July 22, 7-9pm

Venue:
Barnard College, 3009 Broadway & 117th Street, New York, NY (Room to be announced later)

Registration: $40 (General) | $30 (Students)
To cover materials and other expenses for all classes

The Filipino language may be melting away from America’s melting pot, but the need to learn it and speak it persists in the consciousness of many Filipino American youth!

Ugnayan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Linking the Children of the Motherland), in coordination with Bing Magtoto, New York University (NYU) faculty member who teaches Elementary Filipino I & II, bring you five language classes that aim to teach the basics of the Filipino language and provide a framework for further study.

SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED (only 20 seats are available). Classes are open to anyone interested, but priority will be given to second-gen Filipino youth.

All participants must sign up on or before Friday, July 4. To register, please fill out the form at www.ugnayan.blogspot.com and send it to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Final list of participants will be confirmed on or before Monday, July 7.

Participants are required to attend all five classes, and will receive a Certificate of Completion at the end of the class. A summer socialization will also be held in August where the participants will get to meet and speak with Filipino domestic workers and practice their new language skills. Participants who will also write a cultural piece in Filipino will be given a chance to be part of “Reclaim 3: Rerooting in Our Culture of Resistance”, the grand cultural event organized by Ugnayan that will be held in the fall.

Magsalita. Speak Up. Register Now!

Background:

Separated from their roots, majority of second-generation Filipino youth grew up not knowing how to speak and/or understand the Filipino language. The language loss usually begins at home when the Filipino immigrant parents would not teach their children so they could assimilate immediately into mainstream US society and be spared from the racism that the parents experienced themselves. This loss of the native tongue contributes to a “generation gap” between the youth and the parents. This is made worse by the culture of silence in the family where the parents’ stories of struggle and survival in the US are often left unspoken and not shared to their children. The second-gen youth become detached and feel like outsiders in their own homes or family gatherings.

The second-gen youth, uprooted from their heritage, would grow up not knowing about their ancestors’ history and culture that have been also systematically erased from the US education system.

(Re)Learning the Filipino language then becomes an important part of any second-generation youth’s process of (re)claiming their identity as Filipinos and (re)connecting with the stories and struggles of their families and communities, both in the US and in the Philippines.

For more info, please contact Chevy, Melissa or Riya at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Salamat! Thank you!

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