Truly, speaking in English here in PH gives you the advantage from those who aren't fluent. However on the other side people who can also speak deep tagalog words gives you the advantage from normal tagalog speakers too. Sometimes we switch languages when speaking because usually we cannot think of the exact translation of the words quickly.
Isa rin siguro sa kadahilanan kung bakit hindi ako makapagsalita ng purong ingles ay sa kagustuhan ko ring matutong magsalita ng purong tagalog. Kung kaya pareho ko pa rin silang pinagaaralan at sinusubukan sa aking araw araw na pamumuhay.
Well English is a universal language and Filipinos are everywhere.🌎what makes me proud of being a Filipino is that we can comprehend (in Eng.)wherever we go.We may not speak perfect English but at least we know the language.🤗 Tagalog is still our own.🇵🇭English is our 2nd language.😊 watching from🇮🇹.God bless u guys.
Well, English also is an official language of the Filipinos, being used as one of the medium of communication. It is therefore an advantage that Filipinos can easily comprehend English because this is our second language taught in school.
Fun fact a lot of Filipinos are multilingual, we can speak more than 2 languages. Myself for example I can speak 4 languages like English, Tagalog, Thai and Italian, also I can speak 2 native dialects like Kapampangan and Ilocano.
same I can speak Español, English, Filipino, Japanese, Bisaya, Portuguese & Italian.... and btw kapampangan & ilocano aren't dialects :) their considered as language narin...
In Linguistics, Taglish is code switching. It happens when the language user conveniently switches from his first learned language (Tagalog) to the second learned language (English) to express himself. Such has long been the case for many Filipinos confront ed with the challenge usually in informal situations. In the academic setting, code switching is discouraged. Students are expected to gain eloquence of expression, both when speaking and writing. This is done to prepare them for the workplace.
Saw a lot of comments here saying that they are speaking a "dialect" when in fact it should be "language." People are still very confused about this topic. Ilokano, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bikolano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Cebuano/Bisaya, Maranao, Chavacano, etc. are major *LANGUAGES* (we have more than 175 languages guys). Take note that each of these languages have their own sets of *DIALECTS*. My mother tongue, Kinaray-a, have a lot of its own dialects as well that differs almost from town to town and within towns itself to the point that you will almost not understand another Kinaray-a speaker from another area. I can speak Filipino/Tagalog, English, Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon, and Bisaya (only tried speaking Cebuano Bisaya from Cebu and the Northern Mindanao Bisaya from Cagayan de Oro. These are some of the dialects of Bisaya).
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS. It really irks me when somebody claims cebuano/bisaya is a dialect when in fact it is a language and like other languages has many dialects. I try to educate them about this but some people just shake it off 🤧🤡
I can officially say that mostly filipino's are multilingual. I am Filipino and I speak 5 languages and I'm currently learning my 6th and 7th language and I am very proud to be Filipino! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 1st Language - "Tagalog" and I can speak dialect which is "Kapampangan" 2nd Language - English 3rd Language - Chinese Mandarin 4th Language - Japanese 5th Language - Korean and now I'm currently learning Polish & French!
I speak 4 languages: English, Filipino, Spanish and my native language: Bisaya. I speak daily, English and Bisaya. True. Switching from one language to another is somewhat confusing👌😁.
Yea mn I can relate. I speak English,Tagalog,Bisaya,German and Russian and man. Its soo hard to translate it wth your brain. You can think ok but speaking it is hard,
I think it's amusing and amazing to people listening to you, especially for those who speak only one language. I remember one time when I was in the university and would speak English, Tagalog, Ilonggo or Kinaray-a depending on who I'm talking to. For me, it was nothing special or unusual but the people around me all had their mouths open staring at me like I was an alien 👾!
This video made me laugh 😂. I am a Filipino myself and I can relate to them. Even though I’m working in the UK with English people I can’t deny the fact that sometimes I talk to them accidentally with small Tagalog not only Tagalog but also Bisaya so 3 laguages. Haha Thanks for making this video. One follower here.
To gain more perspective, English Language is being taught from kindergarten to college and it is also being use as a medium of instruction for more field of disciplines or subject areas. I would say that most literate Filipino people have the capacity to comprehend English however a lot of Filipinos are not fluent especially in spoken English. When I was studying I'd experience having classmates who are very intelligent and very well verse when in it comes to written English and can even ace an English standardized test however they are weak in spoken English. I think speaking English would really require a lot of training and practice so that you can really be very fluent. To my advantage I was taught to speak English at a very young age that's why I don't see spoken English as challenge however my weakness is written English, I'm not very keen with grammar rules. So I would say that if you are an educated Filipino your capacity and skills in both written and spoken English really varies depend on how much you trained yourself in both aspects.
I was someone who aren't fluent in english but I could comprehend it when I heard it, read it or I write it. School didn't teach me how to comprehend them since they taught more how the sentence are constructed.
It's more of people tend to get self conscious when they speak in English. Even though they can, people tend to tease them as soon as they start to speak. Also, you have to understand that most Filipinos tend to translate from Tagalog to English before speaking. In which case, it's going to be incorrect. Most Filipinos have a high reading and writing comprehension. But when they have to speak out loud, they tend to have a hard time doing so.
I am from Iloilo, and we speak Hiligaynon here. For us it is easier to learn English than learning Tagalog. We only speak Tagalog or Tag-lish when we talk with other Filipino from other regions or when we are outside Iloilo province and Negros Occidental. By the way in Iloilo and the nearby Antique province "Kinaray-a" is also spoken.
If you insert one or two non Filipino words, it becomes Pilipino which is a simplified Tagalog base sprinkled with foreign borrowed words. The genesis of Pilipino evolved over the centuries as a viable means of communication.
As a filipino teaching English in Vietnam sobrng nkaka proud lng how Vietnamese look up to us Filipino teachers. they are impress how good we are in speaking in english. We may not be native english speakers but we gained respect here.
@@loretagutierrez3523 thanks tho but obviously I don't need your help. 1 year ago natong comment ko at 29 likes na kasi siguro yun iba mas naappreacite nila yun message ko ksa s isang maling word na sinabi ko.
@@loretagutierrez3523 not that I'm hurt yun lang kasi napapansin ko sa mga pinoy mas importante ang pagtingin ng mali ng iba lalo na pagdating sa wikang ingles ksa sa laman ng sinabi.
Loved your video & thank you for sharing. I, myself is a Filipino but I can express & communicate better in English. Practice makes perfect "mga tao" (people). GOD BLESS!
As a filipino most of us aren't good when it comes to a perfect grammar but i think despite of that we can still express (all of us filipino's) and tell them what we really want to say
I work online and all employees are from all over the US and all over the Philippines. We have 8 major dialects and although we’re Filipinos, we may not understand each other but we only speak Taglish as our main communication in our Philippines online meet. but there are days that our online meeting is like a zoo 😄. I’m just glad I speak and understand 2 of the major dialects and Taglish
My parents has 2 different dialects and to be able to get the message across they spoke in English to each other oçassionally. We, the children, grew up in both English & Filipino languaes since babyvood. The introduction of 2languages spontaneously made us habitual Taglish speakers. I also speak Swenglish to my Swedish Children when I speak fast.
I guess it's much better if they had interviewed also some people from the different cities or provinces in the country to see the differences in terms of how they would speak in English. I'd say that people living in Baguio City and Benguet are really good at speaking the English language because we don't normally use Filipino (Tagalog). And most of us only learn this at school not at home.
True, I'm from Cebu and the people here have good accent and command of the English language. I'm sorry to say but I don't like the stereotypical accent of native Tagalog speakers when speaking English but anyways what's more important is we understand what they're talking about.
As a Filipino such as myself I would agree that some of my friends do not speak as fluent but they still can speak in pure English and usually English is used on paper work, reports and not for frequent speaking...Also there are a lot of languages and ethnic groups in the Philippines meaning more languages to learn other than english and tagalog
I speak 4 languages and 1 dialect. - English, Filipino, and Spanish in school - Cebuano (Visaya Dialect in Northern Mindanao) and Taglish at home or for communication - Chinese and English in reading and writing novels Ps: it's pretty hard to calculate the percentage of Filipinos speaking English and Tagalog if the survey only focuses in areas like Metro Manila. 🤔 I guess you'd be amazed on how the rest of the Filipino population in other areas of the Philippines speak by switching multiple languages at once while talking.
@@ajmarkauza9924 most of public schools here in philippines thought as spanish or just a language dialect like chavacano and cebuano which they have a mixture of Spanish and tagalog.
@@ajmarkauza9924 when we are in high school we have subject Spanish and in Zamboanga is native Spanish called tzabakan that is why Cebuano is mix in Spanish.
We are Filipino's, it doesn't matter if you are not fluent or fluently speaks English as long as they get you and understand what you are trying to say. In fact Filipino is our national dialect that's what matter most.
I remembered that way back in the 70's, we were only allowed to speak English in school and we were required to pay .25 centavos for every Filipino word spoken. All subjects were taught in English except Filipino. I think majority of Filipinos would be able to speak fluent Filipino language. I have never really encountered people from the masses speaking taglish. Those speaking taglish would most probably be presently enrolled in school.
Just so you all know, guys, that The Philippines 🇵🇭 was an American🇺🇸 territory, that's why a lot of Filipinos speak English some like to mix up the language. For instance, if Bisaya speaker mixed with English. (Bis/Eng.) If Tagalog (Tag/Lish), that's what Makes Philippines 🇵🇭 unique 👌 Like halo Halo /Mix Mix 😅Lol.
Being able to speak three languages, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English... It is quite useful for me with my line of work in education... Being able to automatically translate from each of these three languages, I think is of great for use when explaining to my students...
english is our 2nd language so everywhere you go in the Philippines 90% will be able to understand you. in terms of accents, it really depends on how much you practice/speak english. just like learning any new language, you will sound more natural if you do it frequently.
Mostly the reason why some can not speak in english fluently, is shyness if they will speak in english with fellow filipino..but it's different if they will speak english to a foreigner. Because everybody knows filipinos are very critical with grammar, that makes other filipinos feel inferior that caused them to be shy and conscious whenever they speak english.
It's magnificent to know that the philippines adapts english much more greater than filipinonit just concerns me on how really will it affect the culture and society of the filipino speakers in the philippines.
WoW, Philippines! the most unique in all the world! and the shape and location of their country is like an art of God! i rili think think this country is special!
I really appreciate you two the way you give full attention to what you watch and hear . I surmise you were good listeners to your teachers and lectures.
Even if our 2nd language is english when I speak to that language I stutter a lot. Because i don't use it everyday. Im confidently say that I can understand 100% english. But im not confident speaking it.
Exactly sometimes stutter or u can't speak or describe the exact word that u want to say in English but in ur own mother tounge language it's says well same way to those Korean even stars of them majority dnt know how to speak English unless they raised in foreign country nor they grow up.
The English language is known as the Universal language and it is the 2nd language in the Philippines. Filipinos can speak Filipino and English at the same time. In younger years we are taught how to speak the language. We can be adaptive to the change and can manage to learn different languages. 🥰
Even f most of filipinos cant speak english fluently...the important is most of the filipinos can understand english... that's why most of the foreigners like to visit the Philippines because they can communicate easily...
I've been speaking English since I was two years old. Quite difficult in my college to communicate with my tagalog-speaking classmates. Since, I'm visayan, we'd rather use English than Tagalog. But when I join local media here in my place I started practicing my Tagalog at effective naman sya. Pero yung fluency sa English I don't think mangyayari yun. Unless we are talking to foreigners. Syempre we love our own. Nag-e-emcee din ako, pag may script na pure English laban din. Pero kung free-flowing mas ok yung taglish.
In my side I am very thankful that I use to learn my son to speak in 3 language like Filipino,English,visaya and he try to learn Spanish and Arabic little by little.
I think the question about fifa is difficult to explain since most of Filipinos are not familiar with it so interviewees got stuttered and somewhat nervous... but in my opinion, fluent Filipinos who can speak english is just around 30% . Younger generations are the majority that are fluent in english.
The joke usually comes in with friends when one speaks to a foreigner. The joke is us having a "nose bleed" after talking to a foreigner in straight English then everybody laughs coz he survived the conversation. 😂
Wouldn’t it be better if one mastered the universal language which is English? You’ll survive anywhere with it. Of course you will still retain your native language. Learning another one will make you a bi-linguist.
I thought our native language is Pilipino. Tagalog is a regional dialect. Chair in Tagalog is salung-puwit. In Pilipino it is upuan. Vernacular it is silya. Di ba?
@@rpimjada1549 Correction po, Filipino po ang language not Pilipino. Pilipino is the word used for the people from our country. Also, Tagalog is not a dialect but rather a language. English and Filipino are the national languages, whereas Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, etc. are also languages and they also have dialects.
The exact representation of who we are when we speak right to be able to communicate to any English speaker. Then we make others proud too when we express our thoughts to others understandable and easy to adapt to what is requires & needed!
This is freaking funny how english language is being intertwined to other languages and became a language itself. i noticed that in indian, korean, japanese and chinese language as well> a little bit of english plus a little bit of local or national language equals new language... specially now that everybody can easily be connected because of modern technology...
Can’t stop laughing kasi relatable haha 😂 wag mo tatanungin bigla ng ganyan at biglang nabablanko 😅 On the other side, Filipinos are very adaptable. Whoever they’re speaking to it will come naturally even the accent ❤ Wikang Filipino pa din with fluency in English too!
Hello! Of I may comment this video, I would like say speaking English language fluently here in Philippines is not as priority as far as Americans is concerned. While Our Country the Philippines have a main or official language, English is second to tagalog, yet English is third language to use as far as native languages is concerned.😁 while English language is learned in Our Schools it is mainly important as far as foreign communication is needed to understand first.
If you go to Iloilo city and Cebu city 85 percent of their population is fluent in English cause they are Bilingual. According to the study if the person is bilingual they can easily adapt the other languages. That's why the people in the Iloilo and cebu city are fluent when it comes in English.
@@loretagutierrez3523 plus, they have a heavy accent. If you listen to how Cebuanos speak English, there's heaviness on how they pronounce their consonants, it's very noticeable. Manileños can easily do a neutral accent in comparison.
If you don't agree, why compare?? We're both Filipinos and there is no problem if each province has their own accents in speaking the second language..
na touched ako sa dalawang na interview sana wag naman kalimotan yun sarili natin wika.. ok lang matuto ng ibang language pero mas nakaka hanga kung nagtatagalog parin..
Speaking fluently in English depends on how often you use it everyday. I for one is better off writing in English than speaking it as I don't have somebody to converse in English on a daily basis.
As a Filipino Canadian, I am accustomed to speak a combination of Filipino, Waray, English and Spanish at home. When I was still in school mandatory that I only speak in English unless it was time for my Filipino class. Most Filipinos can speak English fluently but very conscious about it how they will sound like over thinking the grammar.
They forgot to point out to you guys that we have 180+dialects languages and mostly filipinos are atleast tri-lingual... their native language depending on their province... filipino which is base mostly with tagalog... and english... Some even knows sa korean and japanese due to kdramas and mangas
I started working in an American company which is most employees are 90% Filipino, 1% Portuguese 1% Spanish and the rest American. But Filipino speaks good English well compared to the rest of the employees. And we are the one that helping the other culture to at least speak a little English. There’s a school for the people to learn English. Mostly 2 hrs of learning. Some of the school has ESL Classes(English Second Language) which is free for everyone who wants to learn English. I always encourage some of my co workers at least to take advantage of that so in the future they can find a better job to support their families.
First of all camera just kills your train of thoughts and trust me even the best English speaker in class could stutter a lot with a camera straight to the face. Second, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO COMMENT TO FIFA AND THE GOVERNMENT, I mean it's like asking about something you haven't even thought about deeply.
Exactly! They were not really testing their fluency but their knowledge of FIFA. What happened to questions like "what's your favorite food and why?" 😂
True haha! I'm fluent in English and Tagalog, but with that kind of question, I'm not sure what I'd say because I'm not even interested in the topic. I'd probably just say that the govt. should give enough support to the athletes, and that's it haha.
In my opinion, it's easier for us to use English terms on some occasions for lack of equivalent Tagalog/Filipino words. This is a normal occurrence when discussing science and math. Math operations are better said in English or Taglish. Imagine, if the teacher would say in Tagalog: 12 x 2, this would be: labindalawa paramihin ng dalawa. Or 36 divided by 3 (hatiin ang tatlumput-anim sa tatlo). I have to research if there are equivalent terms for ratio and proportions; algebraic terms, even scientific terms. These are the main flaws of the Filipino/Tagalog language, the lack of technical/scientific terms for Math/Science as these subjects are always taught in English.
Grabi nmn yung hatiin🤣🤣. Hindi po ganun yun kahit korean,japanese,chinese,thai,arabic,spanish so on so forth marunong mgbasa ng Times, Plus, divided, Equals, Minus .. Yung number lng po ang mgkakaiba na basa sa kanila . may mga words din minsan mahirap idopt sa kanilang language kaya minsan nakukuha sa English kaso yung tunog eh yung tunog na pnanalita nila..
I am a freelance private tutor. Right now, I have a tutee on conversational Tagalog. He's 11 years old. He was beginning to be bullied in school for not being able to talk or even understand Tagalog. He is a pure Filipino as well as the whole of his family. Unfortunately, they all grew up in an environment where Tagalog is not spoken fluently that's why they needed their child to be tutored in conversational Tagalog so he won't be bullied in school anymore. If there's one good lesson we should take note of from this vlog, it is good to know more than one language but one should be able to speak each of them fluently and not mix-match them all the time. As you have seen in the video, the result is not good---- one tends to have more difficulty in expressing one's self in either of the 2 languages. Essentially, it defeats the purpose of being able to communicate better knowing these two languages but not fluent in either one.
Well, you guys aren't wrong in terms of different accents in the Philippines. We do speak with different English accents and actually there are many factors or reasons behind these differences :)
I'm James I'm American moving to menila Philippines soon and to learn stuff about the Philippines I love ur broadcast and content maybe later we could collaborate and meet in menila Philippines 🎬
Tbh, I always have difficulty in speaking Tagalog. Im more comfortable in speaking English and Hiligaynon. I also speak Japanese much better than tagalog. 🤣
Since i worked abroad thats the time i express myself in english..its been 20 yrs working abroad so thanks God i can speak english straightly..now i am here in spain to be honest spain speaks only 40 % english ..so we the Filipino are the highest paid to be hired to work as nanny just because of English
That is why before I share to my Filipino students certain topics in Values Education, I see to it we unlock difficult words into English and Mother Tongue because Values Education subject in the Philippines has been taught in deep Tagalog now. Unlike 20 years ago.
I am proud to be a Filipino, speaking and being fluent to speak English doesn't make me less a Filipino, during the Marcos era, English is highly used and the percentage of Filipinos speaking English fluently is about 85%,but as a Filipino I still speak fluent tagalog or the Filipino language, I think that the department of education has a balance of promoting both languages. In school we have courses that only teaches tagalog so it is important that we learn the language by heart and use only tagalog during the whole course same through with the English language.
Phillipines al wahid, obsulutely number one, proudly Pilipino here, i know many kind of language not only in english, i know how to speak also french,Hangul, spanish and Arabic, learning different kind of languages is verry interesting...
I agree to the girl saying ,if we are not using our own language ,it will eventually dies. If you are teaching your sons or daughter to speaks English language right now,might as well teach them also tagalog while they are still young. In that way,they can be fluent too and our language wont be left behind. Love our language because we are true Filipino's. It's our own.
I'm from Visayas Region.So most of us speaks fluent English.Because where ever we go around Philippines, we used English to communicate people.I'm 57 yrs old, so I speak fluent English and Tagalog.I always watched Tagalog movies and Tele Series during my younger years.But my 7 children and grandchildren they speak only English.They can't speak and understand Tagalog language.They onlyn watched English Cartoons and Movies.
Majority of Filipinos are probably trilingual because aside from English and Tagalog, they would be speaking another regional language -- unless they are from the Tagalog-speaking provinces. On top of English, my family speaks 3 Filipino languages fluently even after years of living in the US. It's amazing how English is the more prominent language at LAX before Pinoys board the Philippine Airlines but when the plane lands in Manila, you would hear the chatter to be more prominently Tagalog. :-)
Even in most job interviews, the questions are asked in English and most of the time, we are required to answer in English. This is just sad how most of us here have to adjust and learn English when we have our own language. Some people look down on others who can't speak English well and make them a laughingstock. It is good to learn English especially when travelling to different places but people should also accept that not all have to learn it. I can't speak fluent English and it may be embarrassing but I can't also speak fluent Filipino. 😢 Sometimes I wonder what my first language is. Or do I really have one? 😭😭😭
True... But unlike other country example japan nor Korean nor maybe other who aren't english speakers they still let speak their owned language bcoz that's what they are they dnt need to adjust.. Somehow other ppl like bussinessman they only speak one language they also need translator and why of ppl in ph need to adjust to speak English , reason bcoz we used ENGLISH Alphabet. Korean, Japanese, thai and other country they also stick their Alphabet writing kaya ganun . Pero sa pinoy natuto na sa English alphabet kaya adjust and na learn na rin na dapat English narin. I've doubt qng baybayin pa tayo matutu kaya tayo sa English except qng pgaaralan naten dba? Common sense lng yan.
We can’t use our own language when communicating with people from other lands. Therefore, learning English, which is considered the universal language, is extremely important, especially since planet earth has become a small world.
Naiintindihan ko naman po kayu mga kaibigan sa ibayong dagat, munit may dahilan na natatakot,nagiisip at naghahanap pa kami ng tamang word ,kumbaga po de nmn kami native sa amerika.but we can speak when it is needed,fluently or in taglish.with some spanish and some native filipino laguages aside from tagalog. One reason for this was the colonization of other country to us.and the way that we can adopt easily to other languages of other countries when ever we are. Salamat po,via con dios❤love watching your videos
My husband almost only speaks english now that he has been in the US for 24 years but he very naturally goes back to tagalog or taglish when he is around his family.
I liked how you two broke down things at the end of the video. I speak 3 languages and usually mix 2 or all of them together... And sometimes it comes out as a disaster. Lol. I like you two. Subscribing!
Not all pilipinos can speak English, but, but they can understand in a way how u delivered with action. We're pilipino and we're being proud to be a pilipino.
You'll be surprised that there are a lot of Filipinos who can speak good english especially college students and those who work in corporate companies.
I'm Filipino, and I'm very fluent of English and i learned English since when i was grade one but I'm very good speaking usually when it comes to foreigner.
I am proud to be a Filipino. even if we are Filipinos, we can speak English. the Filipino language should not be lost even if it is proficient in English.
Well, as a Filipino myself, it's no surprise that we have such a natural knack for verbal abilities. Here in the Philippines, we have so many dialects that we tend to adopt by migrating to different provinces. That's why most of us are naturally polyglots who could distinguish different intonations, tone, accents and grammar. With that being said, we are also able to adopt different languages from all over the world because we were trained throughout history. We've been colonized by four gigantic powers. China, Spain, America and Japan, with Spain having the longest colonization period which lasted for 333 years. That's why you can find different borrowed Hispanic words in our official language.
Video-chatting online with English speaking people helps me improve my writing and spoken English I have an American guy friend for over 9 years now. We are both in the 70's today.
It is important to remember that English is the official language of the Philippines. Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines. Most Filipino's speak Tagalog at home or with friends and Tagalog is usually the first language they start to learn as a young child. They need to learn to read, write and speak English in school though. As the official language of the Philippines, all government documents and official paperwork are supposed to be in English. Tag-lish came about because Tagalog originally had a limited number of letters in its alphabet. As such, there were not words in Tagalog for many common English words. A good example of that would be the English word "very". There was not a word in Tagalog for very. Pogi is handsome in Tagalog. If you wanted to say that someone was very handsome , you would repeat the word pogi (as in pogi pogi). Obviously this created limitations and the lack of letters (I think there were originally 20 letters) created all sorts of problems when trying to communicate properly. Even though the Aquino administration modernized Tagalog, what most children learn to speak at home is still the Tagalog of their parents and grand parents. That is why you often hear many people who are speaking Tagalog throwing in English words . There are not words in Tagalog (or at least the Tagalog they learned to speak at home) for the words that are being spoken in English. It really depends on how well the person speaking Tagalog has learned Tagalog as to how much they need to use English but generally it is around 70% to 80% Tagalog and 20% to 30% English. Your mileage may vary though depending on who you are listening too. By the time most Filipino's graduate high school, their English is good. They need to pass English courses to graduate high school since English is the official language. If they go on to have careers where they do not use English all that often and generally communicate with other native born Filipino's and not that many English speaking foreigners, their English skills will diminish. Just like with other things you learn in school....if you don't use it you will lose it over time. It should not be shocking that Filipino's can speak English though. They have to learn it in school.
Most of us educated Filipinos do speak fluently in English. Its just that we do speak multi Lingual that is why there are times we mixed up our sentences and there are instances we pause a lot in speaking to prevent mixing up. Unless you are a an excellent english speaker.
To anyone watching this, if you are confused on the difference of languages and dialects, I am suggesting that you should watch "ALAMAT's Philippine Languages Comparison". It was explained really well there.
There are 7,100 islands and over 170 languages/dialects that are spoken by different ethnic groups and regions in the Philippines. We ourselves are mesmerized listening to someone speak their local dialect with different intonations and words we do not understand. Hence, the difference in accents when speaking English.
I kinda love the reactions❤, it was interesting that they are reacting about this videos. Its moving when realizing they made us realize the importance of languages❤💕
The older Filipino generation were even better! They're used to "International English" they are like news anchor/newscaster quality type of speaker. We have a mix of International and American English but American English is becoming the standard English for the younger Filipinos. The accent differ depending on the region since Philippines have different local dialects and it affects our accent when speaking in English.
Truly, speaking in English here in PH gives you the advantage from those who aren't fluent. However on the other side people who can also speak deep tagalog words gives you the advantage from normal tagalog speakers too. Sometimes we switch languages when speaking because usually we cannot think of the exact translation of the words quickly.
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Words from the great fact giver
Taglish
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You should never forget your own language. This is not just for Filipinos but for all the people in the world. 💚
Definitely true.
Big respect for those who speak deep filipino language, ako lang yata ang na a-amaze kapag may nadinig akong nag sasalita ng malalim na pilipino.
kahanga hanga talaga angmga FIILIPINO na fluent sa wikang tagalog.
Isa rin siguro sa kadahilanan kung bakit hindi ako makapagsalita ng purong ingles ay sa kagustuhan ko ring matutong magsalita ng purong tagalog. Kung kaya pareho ko pa rin silang pinagaaralan at sinusubukan sa aking araw araw na pamumuhay.
Parehas tayo ginoo... Haha ganda
Aq din po mas humahanga aq sa malalim magsalita ng tagalog lalo pag binabasa q qng florante at laura napapamangha aq 😊
Pakiwari ko'y marahil kakarampot nalamang ang may kakayahan sa pagsasalita ng tagalog na may malalim na kahulugan
Well English is a universal language and Filipinos are everywhere.🌎what makes me proud of being a Filipino is that we can comprehend (in Eng.)wherever we go.We may not speak perfect English but at least we know the language.🤗 Tagalog is still our own.🇵🇭English is our 2nd language.😊 watching from🇮🇹.God bless u guys.
Well, English also is an official language of the Filipinos, being used as one of the medium of communication. It is therefore an advantage that Filipinos can easily comprehend English because this is our second language taught in school.
Fun fact a lot of Filipinos are multilingual, we can speak more than 2 languages. Myself for example I can speak 4 languages like English, Tagalog, Thai and Italian, also I can speak 2 native dialects like Kapampangan and Ilocano.
Wow
Kapampangan and Ilocano are Language not dialect
same I can speak Español, English, Filipino, Japanese, Bisaya, Portuguese & Italian.... and btw kapampangan & ilocano aren't dialects :) their considered as language narin...
I CAN ONLY SPEAK TAGALOG THAI AND ENGLISH
Mapapa sana all na lang ako hahahaha. Ako tagalog, chabacano at english lang eh. Wahahahha.
In Linguistics, Taglish is code switching. It happens when the language user conveniently switches from his first learned language (Tagalog) to the second learned language (English) to express himself. Such has long been the case for many Filipinos confront ed with the challenge usually in informal situations. In the academic setting, code switching is discouraged. Students are expected to gain eloquence of expression, both when speaking and writing. This is done to prepare them for the workplace.
Saw a lot of comments here saying that they are speaking a "dialect" when in fact it should be "language." People are still very confused about this topic. Ilokano, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bikolano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Cebuano/Bisaya, Maranao, Chavacano, etc. are major *LANGUAGES* (we have more than 175 languages guys). Take note that each of these languages have their own sets of *DIALECTS*. My mother tongue, Kinaray-a, have a lot of its own dialects as well that differs almost from town to town and within towns itself to the point that you will almost not understand another Kinaray-a speaker from another area.
I can speak Filipino/Tagalog, English, Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon, and Bisaya (only tried speaking Cebuano Bisaya from Cebu and the Northern Mindanao Bisaya from Cagayan de Oro. These are some of the dialects of Bisaya).
Filipino speaks English mixed with tagalog with heavy accents/ pronunciations.
Yeah..
It's a pity.
EXACTLY MY THOUGHTS. It really irks me when somebody claims cebuano/bisaya is a dialect when in fact it is a language and like other languages has many dialects.
I try to educate them about this but some people just shake it off 🤧🤡
Facts.
I think dialect is a form of language
I can officially say that mostly filipino's are multilingual. I am Filipino and I speak 5 languages and I'm currently learning my 6th and 7th language and I am very proud to be Filipino! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
1st Language - "Tagalog" and I can speak dialect which is "Kapampangan"
2nd Language - English
3rd Language - Chinese Mandarin
4th Language - Japanese
5th Language - Korean
and now I'm currently learning Polish & French!
It's just you not all Filipinos choose to learn that much languages 😆, but yes we are multilingual tho
Wow kagaling na 😁
I speak 4 languages: English, Filipino, Spanish and my native language: Bisaya. I speak daily, English and Bisaya. True. Switching from one language to another is somewhat confusing👌😁.
Yea mn I can relate.
I speak English,Tagalog,Bisaya,German and Russian and man. Its soo hard to translate it wth your brain. You can think ok but speaking it is hard,
I think it's amusing and amazing to people listening to you, especially for those who speak only one language. I remember one time when I was in the university and would speak English, Tagalog, Ilonggo or Kinaray-a depending on who I'm talking to. For me, it was nothing special or unusual but the people around me all had their mouths open staring at me like I was an alien 👾!
Yes we're the same i also speak WARAY,BISAYA,TAGALOG,ENGLISH and KOREAN. minsan dina kinakaya ng utak hahaha
Hope to meet uall in heaven when I'm finally home. May GOD bless us and give us His strength when GOD wills it. PEACE. ALOHA
I speak Tagalog, English, Bisaya and Surigaonun. And yeah, sometimes it'a kinda confusing 😅
This video made me laugh 😂. I am a Filipino myself and I can relate to them. Even though I’m working in the UK with English people I can’t deny the fact that sometimes I talk to them accidentally with small Tagalog not only Tagalog but also Bisaya so 3 laguages. Haha Thanks for making this video. One follower here.
To gain more perspective, English Language is being taught from kindergarten to college and it is also being use as a medium of instruction for more field of disciplines or subject areas. I would say that most literate Filipino people have the capacity to comprehend English however a lot of Filipinos are not fluent especially in spoken English. When I was studying I'd experience having classmates who are very intelligent and very well verse when in it comes to written English and can even ace an English standardized test however they are weak in spoken English. I think speaking English would really require a lot of training and practice so that you can really be very fluent. To my advantage I was taught to speak English at a very young age that's why I don't see spoken English as challenge however my weakness is written English, I'm not very keen with grammar rules. So I would say that if you are an educated Filipino your capacity and skills in both written and spoken English really varies depend on how much you trained yourself in both aspects.
Oww now I don't know what I'm good at. Spoken or written? Maybe both🤣 nah I suck at English
I was someone who aren't fluent in english but I could comprehend it when I heard it, read it or I write it. School didn't teach me how to comprehend them since they taught more how the sentence are constructed.
I learned other languages than Cebuano but neither of these English, Japanese and Tagalog I'd be fluent
I'm a lot better in written I must say and I understand without any problem if someone is speaking in English or if I am reading novels.
It's more of people tend to get self conscious when they speak in English. Even though they can, people tend to tease them as soon as they start to speak.
Also, you have to understand that most Filipinos tend to translate from Tagalog to English before speaking. In which case, it's going to be incorrect. Most Filipinos have a high reading and writing comprehension. But when they have to speak out loud, they tend to have a hard time doing so.
I am from Iloilo, and we speak Hiligaynon here. For us it is easier to learn English than learning Tagalog. We only speak Tagalog or Tag-lish when we talk with other Filipino from other regions or when we are outside Iloilo province and Negros Occidental. By the way in Iloilo and the nearby Antique province "Kinaray-a" is also spoken.
If you insert one or two non Filipino words, it becomes Pilipino which is a simplified Tagalog base sprinkled with foreign borrowed words. The genesis of Pilipino evolved over the centuries as a viable means of communication.
As a filipino teaching English in Vietnam sobrng nkaka proud lng how Vietnamese look up to us Filipino teachers. they are impress how good we are in speaking in english. We may not be native english speakers but we gained respect here.
@@loretagutierrez3523 mga Filipino tlg mas iniintindi ang mistake/s ng iba ksa s context ng message.
@@loretagutierrez3523 thanks tho but obviously I don't need your help. 1 year ago natong comment ko at 29 likes na kasi siguro yun iba mas naappreacite nila yun message ko ksa s isang maling word na sinabi ko.
If that’s how you see it, I’m sorry. I apologize for hurting your feelings.
@@loretagutierrez3523 not that I'm hurt yun lang kasi napapansin ko sa mga pinoy mas importante ang pagtingin ng mali ng iba lalo na pagdating sa wikang ingles ksa sa laman ng sinabi.
I understand. I did not mean to give that impression.
Loved your video & thank you for sharing.
I, myself is a Filipino but I can express & communicate better
in English.
Practice makes perfect "mga tao"
(people).
GOD BLESS!
As a filipino most of us aren't good when it comes to a perfect grammar but i think despite of that we can still express (all of us filipino's) and tell them what we really want to say
I work online and all employees are from all over the US and all over the Philippines. We have 8 major dialects and although we’re Filipinos, we may not understand each other but we only speak Taglish as our main communication in our Philippines online meet. but there are days that our online meeting is like a zoo 😄. I’m just glad I speak and understand 2 of the major dialects and Taglish
I love Filipino language,,,
(Filipino major here)
MAHALIN ANG SARILING WIKA
Mastering another language (English) doesn’t mean you do not love your own. It just makes you a bilinguist. There is nothing wrong with that.
I moved from Cavite to Laguna... And I learned a lot of deep Tagalog words from my friends. Really a lot, I'm amazed how they know deep tagalog words.
As a filipino, watching english movies and reading english subtitles helped me a lot in learning the english language.
My parents has 2 different dialects and to be able to get the message across they spoke in English to each other oçassionally. We, the children, grew up in both English & Filipino languaes since babyvood. The introduction of 2languages spontaneously made us habitual Taglish speakers.
I also speak Swenglish to my Swedish Children when I speak fast.
I guess it's much better if they had interviewed also some people from the different cities or provinces in the country to see the differences in terms of how they would speak in English. I'd say that people living in Baguio City and Benguet are really good at speaking the English language because we don't normally use Filipino (Tagalog). And most of us only learn this at school not at home.
i have also noticed people from cebu are good in speaking english. theur diction is really good and sometimes they sound like native english speakers.
True, I'm from Cebu and the people here have good accent and command of the English language. I'm sorry to say but I don't like the stereotypical accent of native Tagalog speakers when speaking English but anyways what's more important is we understand what they're talking about.
And the Cebuanos !
@@calciferdfire yesss 100 proud percent bisaya sakalam
Yes i agree with the cebu thing. Just visit a call center in cebu and you will discover everyone is fluent in english with clean accent
As a Filipino such as myself I would agree that some of my friends do not speak as fluent but they still can speak in pure English and usually English is used on paper work, reports and not for frequent speaking...Also there are a lot of languages and ethnic groups in the Philippines meaning more languages to learn other than english and tagalog
I speak 4 languages and 1 dialect.
- English, Filipino, and Spanish in school
- Cebuano (Visaya Dialect in Northern Mindanao) and Taglish at home or for communication
- Chinese and English in reading and writing novels
Ps: it's pretty hard to calculate the percentage of Filipinos speaking English and Tagalog if the survey only focuses in areas like Metro Manila. 🤔 I guess you'd be amazed on how the rest of the Filipino population in other areas of the Philippines speak by switching multiple languages at once while talking.
What school do u study to learn spanish?
Cebuano is also a language.
@@ajmarkauza9924 most of public schools here in philippines thought as spanish or just a language dialect like chavacano and cebuano which they have a mixture of Spanish and tagalog.
@@ajmarkauza9924 when we are in high school we have subject Spanish and in Zamboanga is native Spanish called tzabakan that is why Cebuano is mix in Spanish.
We are Filipino's, it doesn't matter if you are not fluent or fluently speaks English as long as they get you and understand what you are trying to say. In fact Filipino is our national dialect that's what matter most.
I remembered that way back in the 70's, we were only allowed to speak English in school and we were required to pay .25 centavos for every Filipino word spoken. All subjects were taught in English except Filipino.
I think majority of Filipinos would be able to speak fluent Filipino language. I have never really encountered people from the masses speaking taglish. Those speaking taglish would most probably be presently enrolled in school.
That's true! My lola told us that too.
ganyan din school ko kaylangan magbayad kagaguhan yan wlang pagmamahal sa sariling wika
@@legendredux1291 kagaguhan talaga... buti diko naabutan
Nowadays it’s Taglish
We still do this back in highschool, during english month in english class, we pay 1 peso per word.
Just so you all know, guys, that The Philippines 🇵🇭 was an American🇺🇸 territory, that's why a lot of Filipinos speak English some like to mix up the language. For instance, if Bisaya speaker mixed with English. (Bis/Eng.)
If Tagalog (Tag/Lish), that's what Makes Philippines 🇵🇭 unique 👌 Like halo Halo /Mix Mix 😅Lol.
Being able to speak three languages, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English... It is quite useful for me with my line of work in education... Being able to automatically translate from each of these three languages, I think is of great for use when explaining to my students...
english is our 2nd language so everywhere you go in the Philippines 90% will be able to understand you. in terms of accents, it really depends on how much you practice/speak english. just like learning any new language, you will sound more natural if you do it frequently.
Mostly the reason why some can not speak in english fluently, is shyness if they will speak in english with fellow filipino..but it's different if they will speak english to a foreigner.
Because everybody knows filipinos are very critical with grammar, that makes other filipinos feel inferior that caused them to be shy and conscious whenever they speak english.
That's right also grammar also wording esp if ur frm different city in ph u can't adopt English so well bcoz u speak ur mother tounge language.
I think you correct
Precisely kapatid😊
Exactly
It's magnificent to know that the philippines adapts english much more greater than filipinonit just concerns me on how really will it affect the culture and society of the filipino speakers in the philippines.
WoW, Philippines!
the most unique in all the world!
and the shape and location of their country is like an art of God! i rili think think this country is special!
Thank you! Stay safe! 🥰
😂🤣 yeah sure
I really appreciate you two the way you give full attention to what you watch and hear .
I surmise you were good listeners to your teachers and lectures.
Even if our 2nd language is english when I speak to that language I stutter a lot. Because i don't use it everyday. Im confidently say that I can understand 100% english. But im not confident speaking it.
Exactly sometimes stutter or u can't speak or describe the exact word that u want to say in English but in ur own mother tounge language it's says well same way to those Korean even stars of them majority dnt know how to speak English unless they raised in foreign country nor they grow up.
The English language is known as the Universal language and it is the 2nd language in the Philippines. Filipinos can speak Filipino and English at the same time. In younger years we are taught how to speak the language. We can be adaptive to the change and can manage to learn different languages. 🥰
I'm proud to say that although I'm quite fluent with English, I'm also fluent with my own language and still learning more.
Same
Goshhh
Proud PINAY HERE😍😍😍
I HOPE YOU TWO HAVE FUN WITH OUR SPEAKING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😍😍😍
THANK YOU GUYS MY IDOL AND MY CRUSH 😍😍😍💜❤💜❤💜❤
Even f most of filipinos cant speak english fluently...the important is most of the filipinos can understand english... that's why most of the foreigners like to visit the Philippines because they can communicate easily...
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@@iamcirelle yes po... A'TIN here🥰...kaps!
I've been speaking English since I was two years old. Quite difficult in my college to communicate with my tagalog-speaking classmates. Since, I'm visayan, we'd rather use English than Tagalog. But when I join local media here in my place I started practicing my Tagalog at effective naman sya. Pero yung fluency sa English I don't think mangyayari yun. Unless we are talking to foreigners. Syempre we love our own. Nag-e-emcee din ako, pag may script na pure English laban din. Pero kung free-flowing mas ok yung taglish.
In my side I am very thankful that I use to learn my son to speak in 3 language like Filipino,English,visaya and he try to learn Spanish and Arabic little by little.
Very interesting vlog, proud Filipina here 🙋♀️ keep it up & have a wonderful day!..
I think the question about fifa is difficult to explain since most of Filipinos are not familiar with it so interviewees got stuttered and somewhat nervous... but in my opinion, fluent Filipinos who can speak english is just around 30% . Younger generations are the majority that are fluent in english.
The joke usually comes in with friends when one speaks to a foreigner. The joke is us having a "nose bleed" after talking to a foreigner in straight English then everybody laughs coz he survived the conversation. 😂
There is no wrong learning other language… but we have to keep our own native language, like Tagalog because we’re Filipino.
Wouldn’t it be better if one mastered the universal language which is English? You’ll survive anywhere with it. Of course you will still retain your native language. Learning another one will make you a bi-linguist.
I thought our native language is Pilipino. Tagalog is a regional dialect. Chair in Tagalog is salung-puwit. In Pilipino it is upuan. Vernacular it is silya. Di ba?
@@rpimjada1549 Correction po, Filipino po ang language not Pilipino. Pilipino is the word used for the people from our country. Also, Tagalog is not a dialect but rather a language. English and Filipino are the national languages, whereas Tagalog, Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Bicolano, etc. are also languages and they also have dialects.
The exact representation of who we are when we speak right to be able to communicate to any English speaker. Then we make others proud too when we express our thoughts to others understandable and easy to adapt to what is requires & needed!
This is freaking funny how english language is being intertwined to other languages and became a language itself. i noticed that in indian, korean, japanese and chinese language as well> a little bit of english plus a little bit of local or national language equals new language... specially now that everybody can easily be connected because of modern technology...
Can’t stop laughing kasi relatable haha 😂 wag mo tatanungin bigla ng ganyan at biglang nabablanko 😅 On the other side, Filipinos are very adaptable. Whoever they’re speaking to it will come naturally even the accent ❤ Wikang Filipino pa din with fluency in English too!
Hello! Of I may comment this video, I would like say speaking English language fluently here in Philippines is not as priority as far as Americans is concerned. While Our Country the Philippines have a main or official language, English is second to tagalog, yet English is third language to use as far as native languages is concerned.😁 while English language is learned in Our Schools it is mainly important as far as foreign communication is needed to understand first.
..Gat. Jose Rizal said:
"ANG HINDI MAGMAHAL SA SARILING WIKA, AY HIGIT PA ANG AMOY SA MALANSANG ISDA!"
If you go to Iloilo city and Cebu city 85 percent of their population is fluent in English cause they are Bilingual. According to the study if the person is bilingual they can easily adapt the other languages. That's why the people in the Iloilo and cebu city are fluent when it comes in English.
I disagree. I stayed in Cebu for awhile and their proficiency is similar to the rest of the Philippines
@@loretagutierrez3523 plus, they have a heavy accent. If you listen to how Cebuanos speak English, there's heaviness on how they pronounce their consonants, it's very noticeable. Manileños can easily do a neutral accent in comparison.
If you don't agree, why compare?? We're both Filipinos and there is no problem if each province has their own accents in speaking the second language..
na touched ako sa dalawang na interview sana wag naman kalimotan yun sarili natin wika.. ok lang matuto ng ibang language pero mas nakaka hanga kung nagtatagalog parin..
Speaking fluently in English depends on how often you use it everyday. I for one is better off writing in English than speaking it as I don't have somebody to converse in English on a daily basis.
As a Filipino Canadian, I am accustomed to speak a combination of Filipino, Waray, English and Spanish at home. When I was still in school mandatory that I only speak in English unless it was time for my Filipino class. Most Filipinos can speak English fluently but very conscious about it how they will sound like over thinking the grammar.
They forgot to point out to you guys that we have 180+dialects languages and mostly filipinos are atleast tri-lingual... their native language depending on their province... filipino which is base mostly with tagalog... and english...
Some even knows sa korean and japanese due to kdramas and mangas
I started working in an American company which is most employees are 90% Filipino, 1% Portuguese 1% Spanish and the rest American. But Filipino speaks good English well compared to the rest of the employees. And we are the one that helping the other culture to at least speak a little English. There’s a school for the people to learn English. Mostly 2 hrs of learning. Some of the school has ESL Classes(English Second Language) which is free for everyone who wants to learn English. I always encourage some of my co workers at least to take advantage of that so in the future they can find a better job to support their families.
First of all camera just kills your train of thoughts and trust me even the best English speaker in class could stutter a lot with a camera straight to the face. Second, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO COMMENT TO FIFA AND THE GOVERNMENT, I mean it's like asking about something you haven't even thought about deeply.
Exactly! They were not really testing their fluency but their knowledge of FIFA. What happened to questions like "what's your favorite food and why?" 😂
True haha! I'm fluent in English and Tagalog, but with that kind of question, I'm not sure what I'd say because I'm not even interested in the topic. I'd probably just say that the govt. should give enough support to the athletes, and that's it haha.
@@elizychler9096 I'm probably not 100% fluent but I know I'm good enough but with that question I'd probably sound like a broken record or a robot 🤣🤣
Ikr.. they should have just asked about probinsyano
@@charmanderismyspiritpokemo8519 if they did, their answers would have been longer than my essays lol
Salamat! Tenkyu. nice nays unique unik vlog blag! 👍👏
In my opinion, it's easier for us to use English terms on some occasions for lack of equivalent Tagalog/Filipino words. This is a normal occurrence when discussing science and math. Math operations are better said in English or Taglish. Imagine, if the teacher would say in Tagalog: 12 x 2, this would be: labindalawa paramihin ng dalawa. Or 36 divided by 3 (hatiin ang tatlumput-anim sa tatlo). I have to research if there are equivalent terms for ratio and proportions; algebraic terms, even scientific terms. These are the main flaws of the Filipino/Tagalog language, the lack of technical/scientific terms for Math/Science as these subjects are always taught in English.
Agree🤔
Grabi nmn yung hatiin🤣🤣. Hindi po ganun yun kahit korean,japanese,chinese,thai,arabic,spanish so on so forth marunong mgbasa ng Times, Plus, divided, Equals, Minus .. Yung number lng po ang mgkakaiba na basa sa kanila . may mga words din minsan mahirap idopt sa kanilang language kaya minsan nakukuha sa English kaso yung tunog eh yung tunog na pnanalita nila..
I am a freelance private tutor. Right now, I have a tutee on conversational Tagalog. He's 11 years old. He was beginning to be bullied in school for not being able to talk or even understand Tagalog. He is a pure Filipino as well as the whole of his family. Unfortunately, they all grew up in an environment where Tagalog is not spoken fluently that's why they needed their child to be tutored in conversational Tagalog so he won't be bullied in school anymore. If there's one good lesson we should take note of from this vlog, it is good to know more than one language but one should be able to speak each of them fluently and not mix-match them all the time. As you have seen in the video, the result is not good---- one tends to have more difficulty in expressing one's self in either of the 2 languages. Essentially, it defeats the purpose of being able to communicate better knowing these two languages but not fluent in either one.
Currently, we have 183 dialects and I speak 4 of them HAHAHAHAHA. I can understand 5 or 6 dialects
Here in Phillipines we have a lot of launguages from different provinces but we understand each other by speaking few english word to communicate.
Anjing
Well, you guys aren't wrong in terms of different accents in the Philippines. We do speak with different English accents and actually there are many factors or reasons behind these differences :)
some reason is because of their dialect that they used in everyday life, right?
I'm James I'm American moving to menila Philippines soon and to learn stuff about the Philippines I love ur broadcast and content maybe later we could collaborate and meet in menila Philippines 🎬
Tbh, I always have difficulty in speaking Tagalog. Im more comfortable in speaking English and Hiligaynon. I also speak Japanese much better than tagalog. 🤣
UYYY SAME TLGAAAA
HILIgAYNON DIN AKO
Since i worked abroad thats the time i express myself in english..its been 20 yrs working abroad so thanks God i can speak english straightly..now i am here in spain to be honest spain speaks only 40 % english ..so we the Filipino are the highest paid to be hired to work as nanny just because of English
It's ok to be fluent on both language, but still love more our own language, Tagalog,and other local languages here in the Philippines,
That is why before I share to my Filipino students certain topics in Values Education, I see to it we unlock difficult words into English and Mother Tongue because Values Education subject in the Philippines has been taught in deep Tagalog now. Unlike 20 years ago.
I am proud to be a Filipino, speaking and being fluent to speak English doesn't make me less a Filipino, during the Marcos era, English is highly used and the percentage of Filipinos speaking English fluently is about 85%,but as a Filipino I still speak fluent tagalog or the Filipino language, I think that the department of education has a balance of promoting both languages. In school we have courses that only teaches tagalog so it is important that we learn the language by heart and use only tagalog during the whole course same through with the English language.
Agree ako sir lola at lolo english speaking
The percentage is the same, or maybe even higher in pos-Marcos era.
Phillipines al wahid, obsulutely number one, proudly Pilipino here, i know many kind of language not only in english, i know how to speak also french,Hangul, spanish and Arabic, learning different kind of languages is verry interesting...
Coz english is our second main language here,,thanks for reacting,I love u guys,,😍😍😍🇵🇭🇵🇭
I agree to the girl saying ,if we are not using our own language ,it will eventually dies. If you are teaching your sons or daughter to speaks English language right now,might as well teach them also tagalog while they are still young. In that way,they can be fluent too and our language wont be left behind. Love our language because we are true Filipino's. It's our own.
This is also my reaction when I'm watching anime in english sub. Eyes on the sub!! Have a good one!
I'm from Visayas Region.So most of us speaks fluent English.Because where ever we go around Philippines, we used English to communicate people.I'm 57 yrs old, so I speak fluent English and Tagalog.I always watched Tagalog movies and Tele Series during my younger years.But my 7 children and grandchildren they speak only English.They can't speak and understand Tagalog language.They onlyn watched English Cartoons and Movies.
Majority of Filipinos are probably trilingual because aside from English and Tagalog, they would be speaking another regional language -- unless they are from the Tagalog-speaking provinces. On top of English, my family speaks 3 Filipino languages fluently even after years of living in the US. It's amazing how English is the more prominent language at LAX before Pinoys board the Philippine Airlines but when the plane lands in Manila, you would hear the chatter to be more prominently Tagalog. :-)
Bro its like a weird transition that just clicks
Edit: I mean from bisaya to tagalog
Second language is English. First language is Tagalog-English
You guys are such hardworking people NGL
😊❤ Yeah! it's true..we Filipino use English as our second language daily..but some of us speak #Tag-Lish..it means TAGALOG-ENGLISH Language..
Even in most job interviews, the questions are asked in English and most of the time, we are required to answer in English. This is just sad how most of us here have to adjust and learn English when we have our own language. Some people look down on others who can't speak English well and make them a laughingstock. It is good to learn English especially when travelling to different places but people should also accept that not all have to learn it. I can't speak fluent English and it may be embarrassing but I can't also speak fluent Filipino. 😢 Sometimes I wonder what my first language is. Or do I really have one? 😭😭😭
True... But unlike other country example japan nor Korean nor maybe other who aren't english speakers they still let speak their owned language bcoz that's what they are they dnt need to adjust.. Somehow other ppl like bussinessman they only speak one language they also need translator and why of ppl in ph need to adjust to speak English , reason bcoz we used ENGLISH Alphabet. Korean, Japanese, thai and other country they also stick their Alphabet writing kaya ganun . Pero sa pinoy natuto na sa English alphabet kaya adjust and na learn na rin na dapat English narin. I've doubt qng baybayin pa tayo matutu kaya tayo sa English except qng pgaaralan naten dba? Common sense lng yan.
90 percent of job interviews in the Philippines use the English language.
We can’t use our own language when communicating with people from other lands. Therefore, learning English, which is considered the universal language, is extremely important, especially since planet earth has become a small world.
Naiintindihan ko naman po kayu mga kaibigan sa ibayong dagat, munit may dahilan na natatakot,nagiisip at naghahanap pa kami ng tamang word ,kumbaga po de nmn kami native sa amerika.but we can speak when it is needed,fluently or in taglish.with some spanish and some native filipino laguages aside from tagalog. One reason for this was the colonization of other country to us.and the way that we can adopt easily to other languages of other countries when ever we are. Salamat po,via con dios❤love watching your videos
We have the same situation in 8:37, I have a baby brother too and he's always talking in english, he can't even understand Filipino(tagalog) now 😅
My husband almost only speaks english now that he has been in the US for 24 years but he very naturally goes back to tagalog or taglish when he is around his family.
I liked how you two broke down things at the end of the video.
I speak 3 languages and usually mix 2 or all of them together... And sometimes it comes out as a disaster. Lol.
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Not all pilipinos can speak English, but, but they can understand in a way how u delivered with action. We're pilipino and we're being proud to be a pilipino.
You'll be surprised that there are a lot of Filipinos who can speak good english especially college students and those who work in corporate companies.
I'm Filipino, and I'm very fluent of English and i learned English since when i was grade one but I'm very good speaking usually when it comes to foreigner.
I am proud to be a Filipino. even if we are Filipinos, we can speak English. the Filipino language should not be lost even if it is proficient in English.
Well, as a Filipino myself, it's no surprise that we have such a natural knack for verbal abilities. Here in the Philippines, we have so many dialects that we tend to adopt by migrating to different provinces. That's why most of us are naturally polyglots who could distinguish different intonations, tone, accents and grammar. With that being said, we are also able to adopt different languages from all over the world because we were trained throughout history. We've been colonized by four gigantic powers. China, Spain, America and Japan, with Spain having the longest colonization period which lasted for 333 years. That's why you can find different borrowed Hispanic words in our official language.
Our accents differ from what province you were living...because each provinces here has different dialect or languages spoken to...
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I can really relate with this topic💙😇
Video-chatting online with English speaking people helps me improve my writing and spoken English I have an American guy friend for over 9 years now. We are both in the 70's today.
It is important to remember that English is the official language of the Philippines. Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines. Most Filipino's speak Tagalog at home or with friends and Tagalog is usually the first language they start to learn as a young child. They need to learn to read, write and speak English in school though. As the official language of the Philippines, all government documents and official paperwork are supposed to be in English. Tag-lish came about because Tagalog originally had a limited number of letters in its alphabet. As such, there were not words in Tagalog for many common English words. A good example of that would be the English word "very". There was not a word in Tagalog for very. Pogi is handsome in Tagalog. If you wanted to say that someone was very handsome , you would repeat the word pogi (as in pogi pogi). Obviously this created limitations and the lack of letters (I think there were originally 20 letters) created all sorts of problems when trying to communicate properly. Even though the Aquino administration modernized Tagalog, what most children learn to speak at home is still the Tagalog of their parents and grand parents. That is why you often hear many people who are speaking Tagalog throwing in English words . There are not words in Tagalog (or at least the Tagalog they learned to speak at home) for the words that are being spoken in English. It really depends on how well the person speaking Tagalog has learned Tagalog as to how much they need to use English but generally it is around 70% to 80% Tagalog and 20% to 30% English. Your mileage may vary though depending on who you are listening too. By the time most Filipino's graduate high school, their English is good. They need to pass English courses to graduate high school since English is the official language. If they go on to have careers where they do not use English all that often and generally communicate with other native born Filipino's and not that many English speaking foreigners, their English skills will diminish. Just like with other things you learn in school....if you don't use it you will lose it over time. It should not be shocking that Filipino's can speak English though. They have to learn it in school.
Most of us educated Filipinos do speak fluently in English. Its just that we do speak multi Lingual that is why there are times we mixed up our sentences and there are instances we pause a lot in speaking to prevent mixing up. Unless you are a an excellent english speaker.
To anyone watching this, if you are confused on the difference of languages and dialects, I am suggesting that you should watch "ALAMAT's Philippine Languages Comparison". It was explained really well there.
There are 7,100 islands and over 170 languages/dialects that are spoken by different ethnic groups and regions in the Philippines. We ourselves are mesmerized listening to someone speak their local dialect with different intonations and words we do not understand. Hence, the difference in accents when speaking English.
I kinda love the reactions❤, it was interesting that they are reacting about this videos. Its moving when realizing they made us realize the importance of languages❤💕
The older Filipino generation were even better! They're used to "International English" they are like news anchor/newscaster quality type of speaker.
We have a mix of International and American English but American English is becoming the standard English for the younger Filipinos.
The accent differ depending on the region since Philippines have different local dialects and it affects our accent when speaking in English.
That's True.. actually we used english in numbers rather than Tagalog number... Thanks guys
this is "sobrang" exciting, hahaha!
Chinese, Japanese, Filipino and English speaker here! ♥️
Very well said you don't need to replace your language if you are a Filipino u need to use your languages I'm Filipino I love my languages