Language Arts: English-Cebuano Lesson #3

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…

Language Arts: English-Cebuano Lesson #2

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.”…