Here are the reasons why Filipino is interesting:

1.) It is a global language. Wow! The first time I read this article, I was glad knowing that our language is regarded in such way. Anyway, what I know about Filipino is that it was intended to absorb more loan words to be more flexible. Filipino is derived from Tagalog which is used in the central luzon area(including the National Capital Region). This have Chinese, Malay, Sanskrit, Arabic, Spanish, and English loan words. And, this language is still growing.

2.) It is easy to pronounce. While English sounds depend on the word as a whole(words with almost the same spelling does not necessarily share the same group of sounds), Filipino totally depend on the syllables(although some varies on where the stress is). While Chinese is very tonal(a missed tone means a change in meaning), in Filipino, it does not matter whether one retains his mother tongue accent without affecting the meaning. While Latin have so many inflections, Filipino would not give you that headache.

3.) One can use English technical terms. If one is speaking with Filipinos who share the same field of expertise, you would not have to study all over again just to communicate(e.g. if you are a doctor and you are talking to a Filipino doctor, he can understand you because all the terms he learned before he got a license were similar to English). Of course there are some terms which have Filipino equivalents and there are attempts to make Filipino equivalents to the remaining terms. However, English technical terms are more commonly used.

4.) There are trace of Spanish in it. For more than three centuries, Philippines was under Spain and it left behind traces. There are a handful of Spanish words(mostly nouns) used and understood in the Philippines. If you know Spanish, chances are you can relate to several of tagalized(loan words in Tagalog/Filipino)words. You may not know it but you can wonder whether a word belongs to Spanish, all the Spanish words in Filipino have a Filipino spelling so others might not recognize it for the first time but when heard as to how to pronounce it, definitely, one will know.

5.) Sentence patterns are flexible. In Filipino, one can express ones thought in many ways. Let's use "I love you" as an example.

• Mahal kita.-This is the most common way of saying "I love you. Notice the kita, this contains both the I and you.
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• Ikaw ay mahal ko.-Here, Ikaw means You. The copula ay is verb to be(this may be different as to how the other languages use verb to be) and ko varies in usage actually.
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• Ika'y mahal ko-This one is the short version of the second example. In English, only one letter is omitted but here, notice the "w" is also omitted.
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In the above example, I did not change the word mahal. Of course, there are other words synonymous to mahal. There is sinisinta which I believe is malay in origin(cinta-I hope the spelling is correct), another is iniibig, and still there is iniirog. Try to practice it by changing mahal into the rest of the words. You will get not just 3 but 9 sentences in Filipino which means I love you.