" No instance exists of a person's writing two languages. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth"
Mother Earth was composed of probably more or less 196 independent countries which differ in culture, traditions, way of living and of course language. But what is language anyway? Do we really need to study other languages than our own language? Language is the capacity of a human being for acquiring and communicating with the people around us. All over the world there are about five to six thousand languages some of them were Mandarin, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, German and our native language of course Filipino. Above all English is widely known all over the globe it is used to be called as "International/Global Language" ever since we are in elementary we have an English subject mainly because we should be fluent in speaking in English to communicate with other countries like America, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and many more. We Filipinos find English somehow complicating especially those people who wasn't able to study it, or those who really don't want to understand it. But still even though studying English by text books is somewhat hard for some, there is an easy way of doing so, we can read novels, stories, essays and poems in English that way English words were retained in our mind and it even widens ones vocabulary, we are not forced to speak in really deep English language a lay man's term will do. 
Filipino particularly Tagalog my native language, but do I really master it? Since birth it was the language that I was used to, but do I used the words correctly? Or is it even really a Tagalog word? As we all know our language was deeply influenced by other countries, it is not purely ours we just have our part in it. Speaking in my own language is easier than speaking in other languages simply because I was raised by hearing and using this language at the same time we have our Filipino class in school to widen our knowledge about our native tongue. Filipino/ Tagalog language has done a big part in all of our lives since it is widely known all over the Philippines we can communicate with people in Visayas and Mindanao easier knowing that they have a different language but still it is good that they know even just a little how to speak in Tagalog. Let us just imagine talking to each other with different languages some speak in Tagalog, some in Kapampangan, some in Ilokano and Bisayan. Our whole life will be a disaster, we cannot communicate to people around us, we find it hard to jam with them and at the same time it will arouse a fight without knowing what someone is really talking about. 
What language is really important? Is it the language widely known all over the globe? Or the language that is known all over our country? For me I will stand in between, both of these languages is important to be mastered and be fluent of speaking using them. First of all because it is a means of communication in different part of the world and of the Philippines, we can use it in business transaction, friendship, politics, etc.; it will also be good if we know multiple languages so that if we go to other countries we can cope with them and we are not misguided. Language is the most basic tool we as humans possess for both making our needs known and for understanding the needs of others, it adds a great depth to self expression and interpersonal connections.
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