Mangga or mango is the Philippine National Fruit. It tastes deliciously sweet when it’s ripe and sour when still raw. We call it manggang hinog if it’s ripe and manggang hilaw if it’s raw.

It’s mangga season here in the Philippines right now and you’ll see this fruit on every fruit stand anywhere. Prices ranges from Php 30 per kilogram to Php 80 per kilogram depending on its quality.

The raw mango is usually eaten with bagoong – a common food in the Philippines made with anchovies, shrimp and other species of fish that are salt-cured and fermented to be served as a condiment or a seasoning in a variety of food dishes.* If you don’t have a bagoong, a soy sauce and some salt are also good combinations. (Damn! Naglalaway na ako! )

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Gago is the Filipino word for fool. Actually, there are many variations of it, such as tanga, ungas, ulaga, maas, engot but I’m focusing on gago because it has a high search volume. Hehe.

Well, gago is actually a male fool, and for female, we used the word gaga. So, when you’re a male and someone told you “Gaga ka!”, he might mean that you’re a fool and gay at the same time.

Like payo, gago comes in different flavors with a little different meaning when prefixes, infixes and suffixes are used. Here are some of it and their translations.

• ginago. fooled.
• ginagago. being fooled.
• naggaguhan. fooled each other.

Some sample sentences.

• Ginago nya ako. He fooled me.
• Ginagago sya ng asawa nya. He is being fooled by his wife.
• Ang dalawang gago ay naggaguhan. The two fools fooled each other.

That’s all for today. Happy Gago Day!

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Umaga is quite popular today, with high search volume because it happens to be a name of one of the WWE wrestlers whose real name is Eddie Fatu.

But I’m not going to talk about this wrestler. I’ll talk about umaga, the Filipino word.

Umaga is a Filipino word which means morning. As in the time of the day where the sun started rising from the east. I think, it came from the root word “aga” which means early.

The most common usage of the word umaga is when greeting someone “Good morning.” You say it with feelings, “Magandang umaga!” And make sure it’s morning when you say it.

What if one morning, you met Umaga the wrestler in the Philippines? What will you say? Magandang umaga, Umaga!

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Payo means advice. It could act as a noun and could also be used as a verb, just like the word advice and advise.

The Filipino language is so rich that you can actually generate more than 10 words out of the word payo. You just need to learn how to put prefixes and suffixes in it. Here are some of it and their meanings.

• Payo – advice
• Payuhan – to advise
• papayuhan – will advise
• tagapayo – adviser
• ipayo – advise
• nagpapayo – asked for advice
• magpapapayo – will ask for advice
• magpapayo – ask for advice
• napayuhan – advised
• ipapayo – will advise
• nagpapapayo – currently getting an advise
• pinayuhan – advised

Some sample sentences and their meanings.

• Bigyan mo ako ng payo. Give me an advice.
• Sya ang aming tagapayo. He/She is our adviser.
• Magpapapayo ako sa kanya. I will ask him for advice.
• Ipapayo kong magpapayo sya sa aming tagapayo. I will advise him to ask for advice from our adviser.

Whew! Please note that I’m not a language expert. These are just based on my basic understanding of the Filipino language and English. If you have something to add or if there’s something wrong above, just comment. Thanks!

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Another reason why I’m going to do this is because I found out from Google Trends that there are many Filipino words that are oftenly googled. I just opened Googel Trends yesterday and started checking for some words that I think non-Filipinos will search on Google and I was surprised that they are indeed many. And luckily, there is less competition for those keywords, basically because most websites are not in Filipino. Here’s one example: mabuhay. People hear it on different contests such as Miss Universe, no wonder why people are searching for it.

So, I’m opening a new category on this blog now: the Filipino category. From misspelled keywords, now, I’m targeting Filipino keywords for SEO purposes, and of course, for educating other people about our language.

I’ll start my lesson before this week ends.

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