I'm writing this purely out what I currently know of my parent's native language - the language I first learned and spoke up until I was 5 yo. I will replace what I don't know in English. 

So, nag sign up ko sa Diversity Challenge diri sa italki. Unya nasurprise ako kay nag list sila ug Cebuano sa mga "traditions." This empowered and motivated me even more to learn.
Kung modedicate ako ug mga uras para sa akong learning each week, segurado ko moenhance akong fluency.

Di ko gusto mo-hinumdom translates to "I don't want to remember" and I think that's not what you want to convey given the context of the sentence. MO- (or MU-) works similar to the English simple-future verb form WILL and like WILL, MO- is always SUBJECT-ACTIVE. MO- is also used when the action is immediately attainable or attainable. However, when expressing a wish or a possibility, you may want to use MAKA-. MAKA- is also the SUBJECT-PASSIVE counterpart of MO- (MU-) so you may either use "Gusto ko maka-hinumdom" (Lit: I want it remembered by me / Sense: I wish to remember it) or "Dili ko gusto maka-limot" (Lit: I don't want it forgotten by me. / Sense: I don't wish to forget it.)

Gusto ko mukaon ug Ice Cream. = I want to eat Ice Cream. (The action is attainable: Speaker has money to buy an ice cream or is in front of an ice-cream shop, etc.)

Gusto ko makakaon ug Ice Cream. = I wish I can eat an Ice Cream. (The action is either currently unattainable: Speaker has no money to buy an ice cream or there are no ice-cream shops in the vicinity, etc. or expressing a wish, a craving: Speaker feels like eating ice cream.)

Now, I don't exactly know why we use the passive MAKA- instead of the active MO- (MU-) when declining dumdum (Hinumdum's root word. Also remember that Hi- is used to create verbs from nouns and that some letters, like the D in Dumdum changes to N when Hi- is added to it.) Makahinumdom feels more natural to me and GUSTO (WANT, WISH) plays a role here too.

The NAG- affix is used to denote a SUBJECT-ACTIVE present-progressive action and past-progressive action so it is not correct to use it here. You may want to use the NA- affix, as this denotes a SUBJECT-ACTIVE simple-present action or a simple-past action like how the nominative WAS or -D/-ED suffixes work in English. However, some Cebuanos forgo the NA- when constructing a simple-present action. As in hadlok ko (I am afraid) instead of nahadlok ko to distinguish it from its identical simple-past action construction. Don't worry, the adverb of time attached to the sentence will clue you in on the tense.

Nahadlok ko/Hadlok ko = I am afraid.

Nahadlok ko gahapon = I was afraid yesterday.

Also, when declining an English word in Cebuano, it is enough to use the NA- + Simple Present Form of the English verb, because NA- is already a past marker. Adding a -D or an -ED renders it redundant. So the correct form is na-surprise. You may or may not add the dash.

(As you may have guessed it, NAG- and NA- also have SUBJECT-PASSIVE counterparts, but I won't include them here.)

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