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i’ve been to the edges of what i think is a good enough cliff. i’ve been to see the divers swaying over the shore; to watch the dip and the dance of these fortunate ones, perched on distance, seated on the air and carried into clouds.

pic originally from http://www.ojovolador.com/

i’ve been trying to learn tagalog off and on since i was first really conscious of the fact that speaking the dialect i speak at home [(fluent) bisaya] was not the same. i’m still learning though i sometimes lose interest. my advice, stay with it the best way you can and (constantly) use what works best—don’t feel that you must stand on formality. someone already mentioned it, “practice practice practice” and i quite agree. what am i currently doing to learn? watch movies. movies are storytelling so comfortable speech is there but not lazy speech. idioms are also present. they speak slow enough (most of the time) that you can catch onto the gist of whats going on AND you have the added bonus of being reinforced by actually seeing the action that people are talking about in the dialogue. i think movie-watching is quite the key to learning it in bits n’ pieces. :)

i suppose this just goes back to my former desire to be a thespian trotting about on stage (or in this case in front of that unforgiving lens). i love watching movies and the whole rotten, glorified, ridonkulous, moving, messy, thrilling, working process of it. but i think my idea of movie making and my love of the movies is one that leans more toward the way movies USED TO be made, presented, needed. what movies used to mean