proven fact

It is now confirmed.

Baluktot ako mag-Tagalog.
Embarrassing as it is, I can't help but feel inadequate. Filipino grammar is damn hard compared to English. I mean, how are you really supposed to know when to put a -ng at the end of a verb, pronounce, and what not?

OkCupid rates me as an English Genius in one of its tests, I think it would have rated me a Dismal Failure as a Filipino in Filipino if an equivalent exists.

I think in English (proven when I'm extremely mad or drunk!) I don't read as fast in Filipino as I do in English. Nor can I write well. Conversational Filipino is a lot different from Structured Filipino. Most of the words now are Tag-lish or direct translation from English.

When my mother and grandmother talk, I normally do context-clues to understand their conversation. They use really old words that I'm not familiar with and, most of the time, I end up up dumbfounded.

Like, would you really know what these words mean?

mag-urong
magkanaw
magsawsaw
maghain
tumihaya
burara
laboy

These are commonly used terms at home but they get some Filipinos dumbfounded!