yesterday they served awesome spaghhetti and we had a farting contest with our zone in my room! so that was pretty fun.
One thing I learned about the language is that you basically learn concepts here and have no idea on how to speak, but I can understand Ilonggo pretty well, its just hard to make you’re own sentences cuz they have markers, conjugations and prefixes and suffixes for almost every type of word.
Did I mention that words don’t have definitions? You just get a route and depending on the way that you conjugate it it has a specific meaning, and also the context can change the meaning as well, its great for the people who grew up speaking it, but hard for English speakers to learn.
You asked about my zone, we have 1 sister from the Cook Islands, 1 sister from Fiji, 1 elder from Aussie, and the rest of us are American, and i am the only city boy, they rest were ranch farmers!
I decided to focus on learning principles of the gospel rather than the language, i spoke to my mission presidents son and he said that Hiligaynon is one of the hardest languages to learn in the wold that does not have a new alphabet!
and I spoke to a Filipino at lunch, i tried to tell him “gusto ka ang neck tie” “i like your’e tie” and he proceeded to take it off and give it to me, i felt bad so i gave him mine, but then i figured out that’s not the way that you say you like something, it meant i wanted it….
so the language is fun!
haolong!
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