Articles tagged with: wika

"Nanay, mayroong isang salita na ginagamit ng mga tao dito na ang ibig sabihin 'sumbrero,’” my 10-year-old daughter told me one day during our first winter in Vancouver.
"Mukhang 'tunika.'"
"Tunika?"Tinanong ko. "Ang anim? Are you sure?"
Kung ikaw ay …

Dalawampung per-sentimo ng Canada pop-u-la-tion, or nearly 6,630,000 peo-ple, speaks a language other than English or French at home, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada.
The most widely spoken languages include Mandarin, Cantonese, …

Sigurado ka tingin-ing tungkol sa relo-pusa-ing sa Quebec City? Have you recently moved there?
Pagkatapos suriin ang aming Buhay sa ibang bansa sa Canada: Quebec City pahina.
It includes a long list of mga mapagkukunan tungkol sa trabaho, real estate, …

Karamihan sa mga Amerikano, Brits, Australyano, or other English-speakers who move to Canada assume that they’ll be able to understand Canadian English.
Sa katunayan, before we relocated to Canada from the U.S., it didn’t occur to me …

Kahapon, when I attended the Canada-Sweden sledge hockey game during the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games, I got to wondering about the word “paragos."
Sa Estados Unidos, we had amagparagos, but until I came …