NAME IT FIRST

Companion

Two Languages: Tagalog

You translate for your lola at the bank

You speak two languages. That means you belong in two worlds — and both of them are yours.

This is for:

For the Children who grow up speaking Tagalog at home and English at school — who are the bridge between their family's language and the world outside, carrying both every day

You'll produce:your The Tagalog-English Identity Document

The Name It First Experience

You know Tagalog words that do not have English translations. And you know English words your lola has never heard. You live in both of those worlds, and you carry both of those languages with you everywhere you go. This book is about you: two languages, one person, and a map that shows exactly how it all belongs together. You will write, draw, and make your Tagalog-English Identity Map.

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Sample questions

  1. What's your favorite Tagalog word?
  2. What's something your family does together that you'd describe in Tagalog?
  3. What do you call your grandma — and what does that name feel like to say?
  4. What do you want someone outside your family to know about your two languages?

Research basis

Bialystok (bilingual cognitive development) / Cummins (linguistic interdependence hypothesis) / García (translanguaging theory) / Ochs & Schieffelin (language socialization) / Marian & Shook (bilingual advantages in childhood)

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Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.

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Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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