Did I mention about English being the third language I speak? Oh yes I did. Our country has more than 170 dialects spoken by people living in different islands and regions. We are composed of more than seven thousand islands and islets so no wonder we have these plethora of dialects and vernaculars. We can only understand each other through our national language which is Tagalog, and oftentimes the foreign language which is English (British or American) since we studied this from kindergarten until college.

         Although I studied English for almost the entirety of my schooling years, I can't seem to perfect or master this language. I often flabbergast every time I hear someone from my country who speaks English with so much eloquence. In here, being able to speak English fluently is a skill and a great addition to one's resume. If one is fluent at this, then this counts to his probability and possibility of getting hired. It even adds to one's prestige, escalate one's social status and builds up one's reputation. Perhaps these are but a few of the reasons why English is given much priority here.

         So much for that, I have a wide list of favorite words that I often used when conversing with my colleagues. I actually used some of them above. I remember on my high school years, my classmates and I used to play the dictionary game during our spare time. In this game, a player or the word seeker will choose a word from a dictionary and verbally provides the meaning, the part of speech that word belongs to, the etymology, and the sentence usage with its synonym. The number of syllables, number of characters, and the beginning and ending letters are the clues available. Participants will say what that word is and whoever gets the correct answer first will gain a point and becomes the new word seeker. Scores are tallied at the end of the day or week and the winner gets a prize. It's a game with so much fun while building the players' vocabulary in the process.

         Oh and by the way, have you had encountered those times when you think of creating your own word or words? It was one of my favorite past time before. Here are few words I made: