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    The poem "Sa Aking Mga Kabata" by Jose Rizal promotes cherishing the Tagalog language. It describes how the Tagalog language, like others, had its own alphabet and letters, which were lost over time due to colonization. The last stanza emphasizes that if Filipinos had valued their mother tongue more, it could have become a symbol of freedom and identity. The document discusses how Rizal warned that disregarding one's native language is worse than being a rotten fish, and how colonization led to the annihilation of the language ancestors had built their nation with.

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    The poem "Sa Aking Mga Kabata" by Jose Rizal promotes cherishing the Tagalog language. It describes how the Tagalog language, like others, had its own alphabet and letters, which were lost over time due to colonization. The last stanza emphasizes that if Filipinos had valued their mother tongue more, it could have become a symbol of freedom and identity. The document discusses how Rizal warned that disregarding one's native language is worse than being a rotten fish, and how colonization led to the annihilation of the language ancestors had built their nation with.

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    Sa Aking Mga Kabata

    ni Jose Rizal

    Kapagka ang baya’y sadyang umiibig Kaya ang marapat pagyamaning kusa
    Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit, Na tulad sa inang tunay na nagpala.
    Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit
    Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid. Ang wikang Tagalog tulad din sa Latin
    Sa Ingles, Kastila at salitang anghel,
    Pagka’t ang salita’y isang kahatulan Sapagka’t ang Poong maalam tumingin
    Sa bayan, sa nayo’t mga kaharian, Ang siyang naggawad, nagbigay sa atin.
    At ang isang tao’y katulad, kabagay
    Ng alin mang likha noong kalayaan. Ang salita nati’y tulad din sa iba
    Na may alfabeto at sariling letra,
    Ang hindi magmahal sa kanyang salita Na kaya nawala’y dinatnan ng sigwa
    Mahigit sa hayop at malansang isda, Ang lunday sa lawa noong dakong una.

    Reading and internalizing the poem, it was full of peace, love of our mother language, realization and
    insights in it. Going through it, the last stanza means to me, with its English translation “Our mother
    tongue, like all the highest that we know, had alphabet and letters of its very own; But these were lost
    -- by furious waves were overthrown; Like bancas in the stormy sea, long years ago.”  It says that, just
    like the other nations, we do have our own alphabet and language, which is the Alibata, our unique
    Filipino alphabet, wherein you can never find similarity in any other alphabet, that, we Filipinos can be
    greatly proud of. Whereas, the Tagalog language, according to Rizal, has characters of its very own
    and similar to the way other elite tongues have. Those distinct qualities of being a Filipino such that
    the blood itself that runs through our veins, the culture, and our innate, we are certified Filipinos that
    we can never obliterate. But these cornerstones established by our forefathers were overthrown by
    the strong waves and got lost, just like the boat sailing in a stormy sea long time ago.

    The wholeness of the poem written by a child with pure love for his country and language is shown. It
    tells us to tech and live by our Mother tongue because with the use of it we are united as one nation.
    At the young age, Rizal wrote this poem and has already shown the importance of our language, how
    much more the generation today? The Filipino youth was losing the importance Rizal has started.

    The reason why the last stanza strikes an impact on me because if people treasured and used our
    mother tongue since the period of Spanish here in our country, it would become a symbol of freedom
    and identity. Knowing Rizal also said that the Tagalog language is not inferior to any other languages,
    for God bestowed this gift to the Filipinos just like the other countries have. Looking at the past years
    and until now, the tongues of the Filipinos evolved and changed. We are even being used to speak
    the so-called “TagLish,” we are already patronizing foreign languages. Especially the sudden rise of
    the Korean culture today, I admit it, since there are sometimes I and my sister talk in Korean
    language. Filipinos wanted to be those whites who have slang tongues and were gaining colonial
    mentality without awareness. Wherein our native tongue is gone already and unconsciously we are
    allowing it to happen. I even have an encounter that hurt me so much. I and my family were in
    Singapore at that time, we were at a restaurant and casually talking in Tagalog. Then there was a
    family on the other table who were really Filipinos since they speak in Tagalog. So, they looked upon
    us and heard we were talking in the same language, earning their pride and boastfulness they
    changed the way they talk into English and trying hard to look like they are perfect.  Seeing that
    scenario, it was indeed Filipinos denies their identity especially when in other countries. They just make
    themselves look foolish and shameful.

    Rizal addressed to us that our own language must be cherished and should not be forgotten because
    it’s a very valuable possession of our own country. Or accept the fact that we are  worse than any best
    or rotten smelling fish, ashamed that the native tongue is obsolete and boring to use? Our ancestors
    built a better country for us using our own language but in reality, it turned into annihilation. As a
    student studying The life and Works of Rizal, whenever destiny will bring me, I would want start a
    change, never be ashamed of being a Filipino and I speak Tagalog.

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