Hello fellow daoist 🤗
Im here to state my opinion about tagalog novel that have been officially allowed by webnovel itself.

I know its bad for me to talk about not allowing tagalog version, since some of those are hidden gems. I'm pilipino too, and am not looking down on my own kind. Im just worried about the consequences of tagalog version or other languages, i know some of you have read in wattpad too, and know what happened by mixing various languages. I just hope that webnovel would pushed the authors to atleast revised in english instead, even if it was full of wrong grammars we readers can help to point it out if needed.

Im just really worried about webnovel, i hope authors won't feel, im looking down at them. I like some of the tagalog novels too, but its starting to make me worried of those tagalog comments. Please, don't make this just like wp.

    12 days later

    SilverLightTwin I'm also a Filipino and I do hope WN would have an area where all Filipino originals or translations are combined. I also hope Webnovel won't become the next Wattpad. I mean, it's not that I'm deliberately shaming others but I'm satisfied how readers here in Webnovel aren't as less smart as those in Wattpad. I wouldn't like it if low quality novels starts to pop up because authors know that the readers have low standards. I reckon that they can't even criticize a plot even if the senselessness is damn obvious. People are already complaining on the quality of novels-- even translations. But at the least, those novels they deem as low quality had a good flow, writing quality, stable characters although sometimes character development aren't that nice, wprld background is also fine, plot developments would flow naturally. Forced situations lacking foreshadowing are even rarely seen unlike what you can see on typical novels on Wattpad.

    And ooh, check Filipino novels at novelupdates.com, even the novels that became popular in wattpad are rated so low over there.

        kllgst btw, please check sharramycats. they translated some novels although their updates are quite slow. you can also find some in novelupdates.com just filter the novels into Filipino novels.

            a month later

            Reinesse You’re right.

            The reason why Wattpad gradually decrease having Filipino readers mainly because of cliché plots, worse have dull tweaks. Yung tipong luluwa na yung mata mo kakahanap ng magandang plot pero wala ka pa ring nakikita. Bihira na lang yung overused plot pero maganda yung takbo ng story.

            I’m speaking the truth.

            Only few Filipino writers that can be treated as gems.

            Another one important for a writer to consider is his writing style. Even if he conveyed enough/strong feelings to the story to enable readers to feel it, if the writing style is bad enough, some would definitely leave early not finishing the story. Mostly the writing style regarded as unpleasant to read are: jejemon words; emojis; too much onomatopeias that can just replaced with appropriate words. Is there more?

            Kahit gaano kaganda yung story kung mas marami pang emoji at jejemon words na sagabal, wala naman talagang halaga at nagpapahaba lang sa story, talagang sasakit din ang mata ng ilang readers.

            Also take note about in grammar. We accepted that even we have English as our second language, most of us are still fluent in the said language. There’s no problem if he made mistakes in English (but not too much especially is basic structures).

            But why even the mother tongue?

            Simpleng paggamit ng “ng”, “nang”, “din” at “rin” mali pa. Kung nag-aaral yung writer tapos mali paggamit niya, baka hindi yan nakikinig nung tinuro ng teacher niya. I mean, hindi sa pagiging “grammar conscious” ha, pero that is basic knowledge every student should know.

            At panghuli, yung mga characters na masyadong out-of-this-world yung ugali pero pag chineck mo yung genre napakalayo. Pwedeng masyadong brainless (especially sa mga making decisions) or ang OA na to the point gusto mong ibalibag yung cellphone at sabunutan o hampasin yung katabi mo sa sobrang inis.

            There are a lot of problems that I unable to list down here. Bahala na kayo dumagdag ng kulang.

            I apologise to whoever reads this and unable to understand some parts because of different language. I can’t explain some in English so i have to switch at Tagalog.

            P.S Baka may mag-correct sa akin na dapat apologize at hindi apologise. Baka lang naman hehehe.

                a month later

                SilverLightTwin Hi guys, is story written in tagalog that bad? I'm not actually gonna defend them. It's just I'm curious. But truth to be told, I like some tagalog old stories written in difficult, jargon, unknown, and archaic words. My problem is that, oh XD I almost failed in that Language. Randam ko kasi na maganda at parang formal yong tagalog sa narration eh. Bakit, naaayaw kayo magbasa sa tagalog-written story? Curious lang po.

                    HearmJan it's not really not liking it, but to post it here in webnovel, it's quite messy for me, to be honest. imagine it reaching the top 100 or something, it will be extremely annoying since not everyone can read it. it could have been fine if webnovel had a section for other languages. the most annoying it could get is the typing too. like using shortcut on everything.

                      Oh, you have a point. I agree, tagalog-and-taglish-written stories must have their place.

                        HearmJan i suggested it too for how many times. plus taglish would have been better. i mean-- face it, people are barely fluent in tagalog. it's really annoying to see people translating words by making their spelling literal like computer - kompyuter. i admit that i do that and i'm a translator but that's what we're required/instructed to do.

                            But, still I would prefer webnovel with just English whatever it's native. For a reason, I'm not even fluent at my first tongue, and my national language. I probably go with your suggestion. (thumbs up)

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