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I would like to have a prolific national language, that would be appreciated by all Filipinos. The present spoken national language that is Tagalog based, is no longer the purist Tagalog, it has evolved in to a Lingua franca, interspersed with words from English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Malay, Cebuano, Ilocano, and other local dialects.
Given time and the progress of telecommunication, transportation and constant trans migration within the country, I believe the future spoken national language will be so much different from what we have today, relevant words from other dialects and language will be integrated in our spoken and written language. A good example is the "txt", that has no grammatical rule but a very effective and relevant tool for communication today.
Going back, there is a brilliant and well research recommendation by Dina Ocampo, Phd., to teach per-school and primary grade in their native dialect, before they are introduced to other language later in their formal education.
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