Spur of the moment purchase: These cookies, or biscuits, are known as mini palmiers. Pronounced, “PAH-mee-eh.” The palmiers pictured are ordinary Kroger bakery products. They are juuust sweet enough. Not quite a cookie. Not quite a cracker. Not quite a biscuit. What are we dealing with here? Coconut palmiers are probably what you’re familiar with….
Here, There, and Everywhere Remember those “this word=that word” memorization sheets you would get in foreign language courses at public school? Those never worked that well for some of us. At least, not alone. That’s why we don’t simply want to teach and learn straight-up translations, in these Cebuano-English lessons. Sometimes the this=that is straightforward…
I was (am) an American of African descent, a visitor to the Philippines, Cebu area, such as Toledo City. The Philippines as a nation is famous for friendly people. When I arrived, I found out that the hospitality was more than just a rumor, and mostly genuine. Even in the United States, where skin color…
In our first Cebuano-English lesson, we went over some basics that an English-speaking visitor to the Cebu (Visayan) area of the Philippines might want to know. Let us continue with some basics. Excuse me and-or Pardon me. “Usba gud” can be used for Excuse me, I don’t understand what you meant by that. “Oos-bah good.”…
There are not many Cebuano-English lessons online as we write this. It is mainly for Americans or other foreigners who enter the Cebu region of the Philippines and want to have some level of communication with the locals. People often say, “Filipinos mostly speak English,” and while that is technically true, there are lots of…