Learning Cebuano Second Lesson

The second lesson was also a conversation between the two index fingers:

"Unsa kana?"

"Unsa, kini?"

"Oo."

"Pancit kini."

"Lami ba?"

"Oo, lami kaayo!"

So we learned how to ask, "What's that?" "What, this?" "Yes." and answer, "This is pancit (Filipino noodles)."  "Does it taste good?" "Yes, it tastes very good!"

After that we knew the golden words, "What is that?"  and our vocabulary lesson expanded as we asked our teacher about everything in the room.  

Lessons continued with basic things like: man, woman, mother, father, child, grandmother, grandfather, under, over, to the side.  

Elsa and the other Cebuano teacher wouldn't speak any English to us during classes.  They would have us repeating sentences and we soon learned, "Usab."  "Again."

By the time we finished and arrived in Dumaguete for in-country training, we could actually ask for directions and even teach a short lesson in our subjects.  It is very empowering to be able to get around without speaking English!