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RE: BAYANIHAN: Announcing the Steemit Philippines Curation Project
'Filipino (Tagalog, Bisaya, Bikolano, and the like; highly encouraged)'
I was referring to this which I've seen quite a few other people mention too.
I am honestly more comfortable in writing (and, yeah, speaking) in English. But I know a lot of Filipinos (some of my relatives and friends) who want to join Steemit but are literally "scared" of the notion of having to write in English. Often they would ask me if they are "required" to write in English and would supply that they are not confident with the language. I had to show them that they can write as comfortably as they want.
By having the community support the use of our local languages here on Steemit (via posting in Tagalog, Bisaya, etc), we encourage other Filipinos to join the platform and consequently not be pressured to write in a language they are not comfortable with. Of course, we support Pinoys and expats who write in English just as much. 😉 In the end, what matters is that we get to support the Philippine community here on Steemit.
Thanks for pointing that out, @dan90! 😊 (That was a really long comment; sorry about that. 😂)
My post are all in English language though :)
Me too, I just think it would be cool to have an all Bisaya post, keep the Cebuano dialect alive in the blockchain, and other dialects as well before they are wiped out by all locals being more confident writing in English.