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"Sa Aking Mga Kabatà" (English: To My Fellow Youth) is a poem about the love of one's native language written in Tagalog. It is widely attributed to the Filipino national hero José Rizal , who supposedly wrote it in 1868 at the age of eight. [ 1 ]
A la juventud filipina (English Translation: To The Philippine Youth) is a poem written in Spanish by Filipino writer and patriot José Rizal, first presented in 1879 in Manila, while he was studying at the University of Santo Tomas.
bangkay ko'y masilong sa iyong Kalañgitan. Kung sa libiñgang ko'y tumubong mamalas sa malagong damo mahinhing bulaklak, sa mañga labi mo'y mangyaring ílapat, sa kaluluwa ko halik ay igawad. At sa aking noo nawa'y iparamdam, sa lamig ñg lupa ñg aking libiñgan, ang init ñg iyong pag hiñgang dalisay at simoy ñg iyong pag giliw na tunay.
Pascual H. Poblete (Filipino: Pascual Poblete Hicaro; May 17, 1857—February 5, 1921) [1] was a Filipino writer, journalist, and linguist, remarkably noted as the first translator of José Rizal's novel Noli Me Tangere into the Tagalog language.
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His works were recognized by Jose Rizal who even said "He was a true orator, of easy and energetic words, vigorous in concepts and of practical and transcendental ideas". Among the articles he published were "El Pensamiento", "La Universidad de Manila: Su Plan de Estudio", and "Los Nuevos Ayuntamientos de Filipinas".
He formerly served as the chairman of the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), the government agency mandated to promote and standardize the use of the Filipino language. On January 5, 2017, Almario was also elected as the chairman of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). [2] Virgilio Almario at a poetry reading in June 2011.
Coates's Rizal Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biographical account of the life and career of Rizal authored by a non-Filipino (the first was Vida y Escritos del Dr. José Rizal or "Life and Writings of Dr. José Rizal" written by W.E. Retana that was published in 1907, thus Coates's book on Rizal was the first European biography of Rizal since that year).