Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! But I don't believe in Santa. I believe in Jesus more.
Philippines has a great variety on celebrating Christmas. There came the food plus family gathering plus gift-giving plus Evening Mass plus Christmas Caroling. And caroling pictures out a large tin can covered with plastic and tied with rubber band to make a drum. It reminds me of bottle cups hammered to become as thin as it could, holed at the center, attached to a metal wire that creates tambourines.
Caroling hits me with a 7 pm high pitched children singing "Ang pasko ay sumapit..." or Christmas came. The end of their song would be a shout of errand, "Namamasko po!" There you'll have to decide whether to
give some coins or turn off the lights in and outside your house to pretend nobody is home. But the most thrilling part of Caroling is the ''dog''. Yes! every caroling children knows to
be aware of dogs or more likely to outrun them singing, "Thank you, thank you, may malaking aso takbo."
So this is how we say Merry Christmas in Tagalog.
Merry Christmas
(Maligayang) + (Pasko)
Christmas is a great time to appreciate and show some love to our family and friends. So to complete the fun, let's learn how to say Thank you and Sorry at Lesson 3.
Could you embed sound bites of how the words sounds?
ReplyDeleteyeah Rebecca in fact if you go to
ReplyDeletehttp://communicatetagalog.podbean.com/
you'll find all the lessons embed-able and downloadable