by Atom Pornel | Nov 18, 2019 | Good Balita
Filipino language is now being offered in the Advancing Philippine Studies Program of Humboldt University of Berlin in Germany. Germany’s premier university will have its first Filipino language full module as one of the major components of the Philippine...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Aug 30, 2019 | Good Balita
The Philippines’ indigenous writing systems – the Baybayin, Buhid, Hanunuo, and Tagbanwa – have been preserved online through the Google Gboard for smartphones. Google announced on Thursday the inclusion of the native scripts in the latest update on...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | Aug 5, 2019 | Good Show
Mikey Bustos’ new video marking the 9th anniversary of his being a YouTuber celebrates the internet sensation’s pride in being Filipino. The Filipino-Canadian celebrity YouTuber released the video on social media on July 31 while announcing his Mikey...
by Nicole Del Rosario | Jul 11, 2019 | Good Pinoys
A new set of Filipino-coined words are included among the 1,400 new words, senses, and subentries that have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary’s (OED) June update. The new quarterly update on the Third Edition of the OED includes Pinoy terms such as the...
by Angie Quadra-Balibay | May 31, 2019 | Good Pinoys
The first KiwiNoy Member of Parliament (MP) Paulo Garcia delivered his historical maiden statement in Wellington in three languages – he started speaking in Te Reo Maori, then in the Filipino language, and in English. Attorney Paulo Garcia delivered his first...
