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3 total sentences available.
In the Philippines, my best friends were my cousins. Whilst in the outskirts of Quezon City, we imagined the red savannah as planet Mars, and we trekked through it. In rural Ibaan, we would be amongst piggeries and woven mats full of drying "kamias" under the heat of the tropical sun.
Source: tatoeba (10589760)
After school hours, my brother and I often stopped by my Auntie Mila's house at Kamias Street in Quezon City to play with my cousins. It was an ancient mansion that was once a foreign embassy. Workers supposedly moved it brick by brick from an outlying province into the city. Auntie Mila was a person attuned to Philippine native culture. She liked all these handmade wooden and shell native crafts. On the other hand, her husband, my Uncle Joe, was very pro-American and inculcated their kids in the English language early on because they intended on later emigrating to the USA. I thought to myself that it was unusual that these cousins spoke English at home as if they were actors on television. But they did speak Tagalog with us. Uncle Joe was from a province, Pangasinan, where Tagalog was a second language; there, people spoke the language Pangasinan amongst themselves. He spoke also the regional language, Ilocano.
Source: tatoeba (10782035)
I guess "bilimbi" is what people in Mayotte call the fruit, our Filipino "kamias." Mayotte is islands off the East African coast, near Madagascar, which was settled by Malayo-Polynesians from Island South-East Asia.
Source: tatoeba (11175147)
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