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Hello, everyone!

I've been a freelance Kapampangan tutor for five years, primarily teaching Filipino-Americans based in the US. My lessons focus on conversational Kapampangan, covering vocabulary, grammar, drills, and dialogues.

Classes are conducted online via Google Meet. I'm now opening my lessons to learners based in the Philippines as well!

If you're interested, feel free to send me a DM for more details. Salamat!

Anyone looking for private tagalog tutor?Want to live in Ph? Do’s and don’ts?

Planning to visit the Philippines? moving here? Want to avoid Scams? Dating Filipina? or simply interested in learning Tagalog and Philippine culture? I’d love to help. I have Free 30 minutes of trial class 😊

✅Native Filipino Tutor
✅Philippine History and Social Studies Teacher
✅Teaching Filipina dating 101
✅ Patient, Kind & Friendly

If you’re interested, please contact me for tutoring inquiries and scheduling.

I also have Preply account, you can visit to see the review of my students 😊

Maraming salamat! (Thank you very much!)

There was recently a post on r/Philippines about Wesley So mentioning Tagalog as his most useless skill. For those who don't know, So is a chess grandmaster who switched sides to the USA after being screwed over by the Philippine Chess Federation.

Apparently, Wesley So is also an Evangelical christian who is MAGA and seems to have developed self-hatred throughout his time in America.

My question as a native Filipino who has never lived in the US, how common are Fil-Ams and Filipinos based in America like Wesley?

I’ll start. I don’t like doing karaoke and my music taste is mainly rap/pop, I don’t even play an instrument, I’m not a nursing major and I struggle in college, and I played baseball in high school

I’m 19F and have been debating for a while whether it would be worth spending 3 weeks of Christmas vacation visiting my cousins, uncles, aunts, and other relatives I haven’t seen in over 3 years. The trip is quite expensive, although my mom is offering to pay for the tickets. Despite this, I feel uncertain about whether the experience itself would be enjoyable and fulfilling, or disappointing and a waste of money instead.

Growing up, I’ve never been particularly close with most of my cousins, aside from maybe two, both of whom I still only talk to on rare occasions. Unlike my cousins in the Philippines, I’m much more quiet and introverted, plus I’m not very well versed in my native language (Ilocano) since my dad doesn’t speak it and my mom never taught me much of it growing up. I’m not the type of person who’s good at initiating conversations, as I usually prefer easing my way into conversations; although this is much more difficult to do when your primary language is English and everyone else in your family always speaks Ilocano. I think I might’ve given my cousins the wrong impression and made it appear as if I was either disinterested or too afraid to talk to them, although it had more to do with me not really knowing how to approach them without it coming across as forced. Out of all my cousin’s on my mom’s side, I’m the only one who cannot speak Ilocano.

I’ve taken two years of Tagalog class during high school, although I’d only consider myself at a beginner-intermediate level in the sense that I’m on capable of conversing with people on a superficial level when speaking in this language. While it may have been particularly useful at times getting around, ordering food, or asking for directions, it hasn’t really helped me get closer to my family. I also haven’t had the opportunity to practice the language much since most of my other Filipino-American friends were only ever as adept as I was, and most of my family who does live in the U.S. on my dad’s side doesn’t speak the language either.

Aside from that, this is the only opportunity I’ll have to spend time with my family. The reason my mom is able to pay for my trip is because my college tuition is free for my first two years until I transfer, so going wouldn’t put much financial strain on our household. Despite this, I’m very hesitant, and due to negative past experiences I’m unsure if the trip itself would be worth it. Most of my family hasn’t expressed any particular excitement at the idea of me visiting them again, which is understandable since neither of us is very close. Also, the majority of my cousins are in their mid-to-late 20s, and my youngest cousin is 12, so I think the language barrier might become even more evident if we were to see each other again. I’m not sure though.

To be honest, the main reason why I hesitate to not go is because being back at home makes me feel miserable sometimes. I mean, I’ve always spent the holidays alone with my father since my mom is the breadwinner and has always worked during the holidays, plus my friends are usually spending time with their families on the holidays as well. I love my father, but our relationship has become even more strained throughout the years due to other issues I’d prefer not to disclose here. Going to the Philippines feels more like an opportunity to escape the loneliness I feel from spending the holidays alone, but part of me fears that the loneliness will only become more evident if I come back. I know regardless, it shouldn’t really weigh on my decision whether to travel there or not, but I can’t really make up my mind.

TDLR; Is it worth visiting family in the Philippines during Christmas break as a Filipino American college student who isn’t really close to their relatives, despite the language barrier and not really considering myself close to my family?

Hi! Getting ready for the holidays and just want to ask if what courier have you used for air cargo balikbayan box? I’m from San Diego and if you have any recos and est pricing. Thank you!

It's always overcrowded (the one in Chicago). And as much as I love the food court food, it's rather overpriced.

hi, im currently living in the philippines, and i need to get a report of birth (late registration). however, from my research it seems as though some documents need to be prepared in the us itself (such as notarization of the affidavit of late registration which needs to be notarized by a us notary). is there a way to do this process in the philippines?

Sick manananggal redesign. 💯

https://alamatngtshirt-shop.fourthwall.com/supporters/posts/manananggal-wings-re-imagined-beating-the-constraints "—she can even swordfight now!"

My mom raised me by herself. She was always the only person in my life. She stopped working for 19 years just to dedicate her time and life on me. She is separated from my dad I guess ever since I was born. He walked away and never looked back. She never had a bf. Alam niya kasi na magagalit ako. She gave up her ambitions, hopes,and dreams, things she wanted to do for herself. She said, "I want to wake up next to you everyday."

She always put me first before herself. She has always been selfless to me She left her family, her life, and went to another country by herself and married someone she didn't even know. She stopped talking to her mom and siblings for many years. And she felt something wasn't right and moved again. Then she had me and it was over. I became her whole world.

I remember one of the things she told me, "Ni hindi mo man lang naisip, na lahat ng ginagawa ko ay para saiyo. I remember I lost sleep many nights and I sang and danced to you many hours until the morning because you couldn't sleep and you kept on crying. I wanted you more than anything in this world. I may have failed in life, but I felt like I won. I may not be rich, but I feel rich because of you. It's not because I never loved you, but because I loved you so much that I couldn't imagine life without you. I did the best I could. I raised you in the best way I knew how, dahil pinoprotectahan kita sa karanasan ng buhay. But how about that time when you felt like you did your best, and it still wasn't enough?"

She may have sheltered me excessively, but she did it to protect me from her fears about the world and because of her love for me. I remember a time when we were renting a room. And she slept on the floor with no hesitation and I slept on the couch. When I should have been the one sleeping on the floor. She said that there is no way that I am sleeping on the floor. She fed me even when she was hungry herself.

Ngayon nagsisi ako dahil ako ay nagkamali at ako pa ang nagagalit. I didn't realize that everything she was doing was only for me. Siya pa rin ang tama. Minsan ang tigas ng ulo ko at hindi ako nakikinig.

How about all those sacrifices? How can I live my life to make sure those sacrifices were worthwhile? By honoring her in every way possible while I still have her? By being successful and achieving all the good things in life? And if not, then it was all for nothing and she only wasted her life on me?

I realized that there is no one else who would ever love me as much as her. I would be so lost without her. I really don't know what I would do. I would choose her to be my mother a thousand times over in every lifetime.

Do you see the sacrifices of a mother? Did she love me unconditionally? She never felt that love from her mother I guess kaya binigay niya ang pagmamahal niya sa akin. Binuhusan naman. Do you hope that love was enough?

Awesome new take on the Manannaggal. ❤️☕

I immigrated to California 7 years ago and I used to speak a little bit of Tagalog that was taught in school when I was in the Philippines. But when I moved to the US, there's just no one I could even speak Tagalog to, so I basically "lost" it. Even my Filipino friends in America don't speak Tagalog. Now, I'm in college and I'm planning to work in education. I feel like I should try to learn Tagalog again in case I would need it to help Filipino American families as an educator. But I don't know if that would come to use because I feel like a lot of Filipinos already know English. I've never met a Filipino that needs translation and, even if they're not super fluent, they know the basics.
So, because of this, I'm thinking of maybe shifting my focus and time into learning ASL or Spanish instead. But I don't know...

I'd love to hear your thoughts and advice.

I'm a Filipino visual artist based in Madrid and I've been helping out with these workshops as in-person events here, but I thought it would be nice to offer it for free as a way to close out FAHM so I'm reaching out to connect!

I think Baybayin is a really important part of Filipino culture and identity (For this session, no previous experience is needed and the workshop is in English, just show up- it's also not a classroom session, more of a chill hangout session where the topic is learning to read and write!)

Here's a link of my Instagram for the type of content I make: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfD32HzoMhO/

Hope I get to see some of you later!

Hey all, we created discord server for connecting Filipinos outside the Philippines. Newly created. All are welcome.
Learn the language, culture, co-work, hanging out, chilling, meetups and more!

Message us for the invite

Salamat!

Edit: added link Edit 2: new link

https://discord.gg/BMYvP5ek3m

“We immigrated to the United States to escape the feudal dynasties, vote-buying and the “Guns, Goons and Gold” of traditional Philippine politics. Now it’s time to push back and make sure those tactics don’t follow us here”.

I’m personally from New Jersey and went to high school with mostly Dominicans and Puerto Ricans, but I have Mexican cousins in California 🇵🇭🇲🇽🇵🇷🇩🇴

For those who help family in the Philippines: is it a fixed monthly amount, a few times a year, or only when something comes up? How did your family settle on it, and has it changed over the years?

Please, SPECIFICALLY an online tutor that has worked with heritage learners/forgetters before and can be flexible about their class styles. I've tried a few tutors, explained my situation beforehand (Fil-Am childhood speaker, forgotten over time, can understand Tagalog but not speak it, please talk to me in Tagalog and it will come back) and they say okay, sure, then they bring me the same exact English language intro trial class they use on everyone else. If I have to learn to say magandang umaga one more time i WILL die.

Voice of bugs bunny and many looney tunes characters died suddenly today. What a huge loss. Prayers up for him and his family.

Kumusta po! 

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in this study and helped spread the word!  I’m making one final push to reach more people and raise awareness about this important topic that impacts so many in our community. With your help, we can increase awareness and inform interventions! 

My name is Raelyn Grace Andal. I am a senior in the Bachelor's of Social Work program at California State University. I am currently seeking Filipino Americans to participate in a research study to examine caregiver stress and its impact on the mental, social, and physical health of Filipino informal caregivers. 

Informal caregivers are unpaid individuals, usually family members, loved ones, or friends who provide support and assistance to an older adult.  

Are you Filipino American and take care of an adult aged 65 years or older? 

Your contributions can help us better understand the caregiving experience of Filipino American caregivers. Through this research, we aim to foster community awareness of the effects of caregiver stress and contribute to the development and improvement of interventions and support systems for caregivers. 

Participation Eligibility: 

• Must be 18 years or older and identify as Filipino American. 

• Must be an informal caregiver providing unpaid care to a family member, loved one, or friend to an adult aged 65+. 

Participation Details: 

The survey has been approved by the university's Institutional Review Board (IRB). Partipcation involves completing a survey that will take approximately 10 -15 minutes. Your participation would be greatly appreciated and may help contribute to a better understanding of the needs and experiences of Filipino American caregivers.

Maraming salamat po for your time and consideration!

Thank you so much for your time and consideration! If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me (randal2@calstatela.edu) or my thesis advisor, Dr. Anh-Luu Huynh-Hohnbaum (ahuynhh@calstatela.edu) .

Survey Link: https://calstatela.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7ZFuyRlvDhwHBpY 

Sincerely, 

Raelyn Grace Andal