Lesson # 1

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Filipino has type of English, the lazy English...

First Language Influence ---->

* This happens when your first language influences your second language.

First language influence affects four things:

1. Pronunciation

2. Intonation

3. Word Choice

4. Sentence Construction

In Filipino, there are 5 vowel sounds.

*In American English, there are 20 vowel sounds.

**And 12 pure vowel sounds

**8 diphthongs (combination of 2 vowel sounds)

***Examples:

- cap (ae) - (eyah)

- cop (d.j.) - "drop jaw"

- father (d.j.) - "drop jaw"

- cup (schwa) - "uh!"

- issue (schwa) - "uh!-ssue"

- oven (schwa) - "uh!-ven"

***watch series like "Big Bang Theory"

*There are some consonant sounds in English that are not present in Filipino.

-- T-Th-D

-- P-F

-- B-V

-- S-IS

-- Rolling "R"

*Pronounce "Th" with tongue stick - out, air puffing out

**P - upper/lower lips touches

**F - biting lower lips

**B-V

-- V - bite lower lips

**S-IS -- not supposed with "i" before "s".

**Rolling R -- Mexican rolling "r" not supposed

**Intonation

Examples:

Magandang U^maga

Good ^Morning.

**Word Choice:

As we Filipinos, we loved to be lazy with our words:

**Examples:

-- Colgate ===>Tooth Paste

-- Pampers ===> Diapers

-- Aircon ===> Air-Conditioned (AC)

-- Xerox ===> Photocopy

-- Traffic ===> heavy traffic in "washroom"

-- Comfort Room ===> rest room; "The John"; "Powder Room"

-- Kodak ===> photo shoot

-- Rubber Shoes ===> Sneakers

-- Dine In ===> For Here

-- Take - Out ===> To Go

-- Tucked In ===> "Tucked"

-- Tucked Out ===> "Un-Tucked"

-- Repeat it again once more ===> Can you repeat what you said?

-- Stand Up ===> Standing Up

-- Fall In Line ===> Can you form a line?/Stand in Line

-- Fill Out ===> Documents Completing

-- Fill It Up ===> For Beverages or Coffee

-- Fill In ===> As in "Fill In The Blanks"

-- Most Latest ===> Recent; (do not use "most")

-- Bottomless ===> Refillable

-- Eat All You Can ===> Buffet

-- Cope Up ===> Revert Back

-- "Cope" ===> Revert

-- Go Here ===> Come Here at 4 o' Clock./Go There at 4 o' Clock

--Come vs Go ===> Idea of Being Where

**Come - Directed Toward

**Go - Directed Away

Example:

Bring The Book Here ---"towards"

Take The Book There --- "directed away"

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