Fluency Of English or Mastery of Mother Tongue

Mother tongue or our first language is the language what we learned since our birth.  This is our identity  as Pilipino people and further it also indicate our unique characteristic as with other people in the world. This is  important in   dealing with our Pilipino brothers. Our  means of communication in dealing with our daily works and with our relation  with other people in the community. This language is the language that is understood in the community were we live.  And give a guarantee that we are one with them. 

Almost all of the people in our country use this language. This is a one way how to show our patriotism  and love for our country. Since we can speak and understand this language it will lead  our country to be progressive. We can work together for a common goal. We will also have  the same vision and aspiration for the welfare of all our country. 

In school we are taught English.  Our government considered English as the second language.  Yes, it is true that to be globally competitive and  progressive we have to speak other language particularly English.  But if we take Japan as our model, it is quite  different. Japan become powerful with the use of their Mother tongue as the medium of instruction in all the level of this institution. But they do not control those who wanted to learned English. 

I am in favor of the use of our own language in our country and the rest of the country in the world.  This language will give as the opportunity to be known to the whole world that we excess as a country and that we have a language of our own.  We can shown to them  our own identity as the Pilipino people having great culture, tradition and language comparative to them. We can prove to the world that we did not come from mix culture, but rather we have our own nationality.