Instead of teaching foreign languages such as Korean, Chinese, or Japanese, why not prioritize teaching our own native languages in addition to the Filipino language in our school curriculum?
For instance, consider our very own Visayan language. Over 30 languages constitute the Visayan language family. The Visayan language with the most speakers is Cebuano, spoken by over 30 million people as a native language in Central Visayas, parts of Eastern Visayas, and most of Mindanao.
Just think of the countless positive developments that could result when the young Tagalog pinoys of today and the next generations of the Tagalog-speaking regions of our country would someday be no longer linguistically alienated from the Visayan-speaking regions -- just as how the Bisaya-speaking pinoys learned Tagalog early in school making them not linguistically alienated from the Tagalog-speaking pinoys.
A huge percentage of the language barrier between Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao would significantly be reduced just by adding the Visayan language in our school curriculum! Isn't that amazing?! There would be a linguistically united Philippines when that happens!
Image, Courtesy To The Owner (CTTO). Personal addition of red punctuation marks and symbols are for added emphasis.
