Google's Newest Campaign: Love Your Language

Getting a chance to attend another Google event is awesome, this time in Manila. They have new campaign which also in time for the celebration of "Buwan ng Wika".

Now, if you are thinking what is this "Love Your Language Campaign"? Let me tell you something about it.

It is Google's way of empowering the communities to build high quality translations online for their languages using Google translate Community Tool so that native and non-native speakers can appreciate the language better.

I participate to the translate-a-thon after the program on the event and it was fun. I enjoy translating from English to Filipino and to be sure I only translate those I know 100% the rest... I just skip it, for sure there is someone out there who will do it.

You can actually participate by signing in your Google account and visit the https://sites.google.com/site/loveyourlanguagephilippines/ or https://goo.gl/HPwl3Z to register and get more information on how you can help translate as part of Love Your Language in the Philippines.

You can even translate in both Filipino or Cebuano if you are both knowledgeable of them. Your total umber of contributions will be counts coming from the Gmail account that you are using.

It is actually a whole month celebration and translation. However, after August, you can still continue translating to improve Filipino and Cebuano on the web. But Google will only be measure the contributions and individuals until August 31, 2015 as part of the month-long program. 

Google is holding a series of Love Your Language translate-a-thons across the country through several community-led and campus-led events in Bacolod, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Dagupan, Davao, General Santos, Guimaras, Halsema, Iligan, Iloilo, La Union, Los Banos, MakatiCity, Pangasinan, Quezon City, and Zamboanga.

Also, Google calls on Pinoys for lyrics for new OFW song.  It was set to launch a special song with five well-known local bands and musicians for Filipino modern-day heroes (OFWs).  It was meant to recognize and celebrate close to 12 million OFWs and aims to reconnect them with things they miss back home through music.

Google is working with Sponge Cola, ItchyWorms and Kjwan, band vocalist Ebe Dancel and YouTube Star Mikey Bustos, who will be putting melody to the lyrics and will be recording the song together. The song will be release on September 1 exclusively on YouTube.

To submit your lyrics, simply go to https://goo.gl/vRkjUK or post using #GoogleMissKoNa on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.