AMERICAN Ranked the BEST ENGLISH Speaking Country in Asia - Foreigners Reaction 

I’ve travelled a little bit through Singapore. It is apparent that they use those with some English fluency on services (police, taxi drivers, etc.) which is a good thing, but they don’t reflect the average fluency of all Singaporeans. Needless to say, it doesn’t follow Singaporeans are better than Filipinos in English which they wrongly proclaim often. It also too obvious that most Southeast Asians (including Singaporeans) speak English with American pronunciation, not British, and considering that Singapore and Malaysian were under British rule, one can only conclude they learned English from Philippine teachers. Yet, they won’t mention this fact that it’s the Philippines who have taught them much of their curriculum. Fun fact: the Brits and the Dutch colonizers do not have an equivalent of the Catholic teaching missionaries the Philippines have had from the the Spaniards and Americans. Many of them run great schools around the world (the Jesuits, Christian Brothers, Dominicans, St. Bridget’s Order, Maryknoll, Franciscan and so much more). The Spanish missionaries converted and educated the Filipinos for 333 years of their colonization while the American missionaries were there almost 100 years until the late 1990s. Their schools of course have contributed so much to the Philippine public school system as well. As a youngster, I have known many of these SE Asian schools have consulted with Filipino school administrators. They’ve have gotten education from the Philippines, and they have hired innumerable Filipino school teachers for their schools up to the present. Yet, not one of them would mention these facts. Moreover, they propagate this fact that the Philippine school system is the lowest in their ranking system system as published by UK ranking firms and favoring their own ex-colonies. It takes big 🏀🏀 to make such proclamations. The presiding woman in the video was right about her assessment that the Filipinos have the best English in the region, and it’s based on her own personal survey.

In the Philippines we use English from Elementary to College and English is our second Language. The only subject that we used our language is Filipino subject but for us Filipino subject is harder than English, just like the words "pararila" "pangatnig" "pandiwa" "pang-abay" etc.. etc.. etc... and sometimes we translate the words into English to know what's the meaning of it😁😁😊 My English major teacher said "if you don't know how to speak English, you cannot talk the world, for English is the main Language in the world". I have one teacher when she called you and asked something you need to speak English and if you can't you will remain standing😊☺. Now I'm living in the US and when I came over here the family and friends of my husband was surprised that I know how to speak English☺☺☺🥰

I had a Korean-American boss who was always amazed that young and old, here and there, Filipinos can speak English ❤

Right, we have a new HR lady. She is Filipino… She is so smart. Mabuhay from California

That's really the accent of Filipinos, the Filipino English Accent is aggressive because of speaking properly and people can understand it so that's what it's for.❤❤❤

I think, it’s harder to detect the country of origin when Filipinos and Indonesians speak English because it’s a lot closer to the American accent and we speak it in a more casual way. I find Indian English very formal and stilted sometimes and I don’t think it’s because of British influence and rather more like a textbook-type of having learned it. It’s also a little ironic though that Korea for example sends their people to learn English here in the PH and yet we still often hear our accent being looked down upon over there.

My great-grandfather was a Thomasite. They were a group of 500 teachers who traveled to the Philippines to establish a basic education system and to teach English. This happened after the Spanish-American war. I later found out he stopped by Tokyo to pick up more instructors. He was able to make friends with them before making their way to the Philippines. Much respect to my grandfather making that long journey.

The pronunciation of words and languages here in the philippines start in sounding of letters, in school we were taught during our primary grades on how to sound each letter and combined with the other, until these sound combination became a words, and words became a sentence, sentence became a paragraph, and so on.

Philippine English can be sub-divided into Tagalog English or Taglish, and Bisaya English, or Bisaglish. Taglish sounds mellow, while Bisaglish is hard-accented. Both variants are very maleable and can be hammered to form as real american english, canadian english, australian or even british english. It depend on circumstances and peculiar situation. In singing and beauty competitions abroad, Pinoys tongue are easily adoptible without twisting the tongue no matter what, and just respond naturally to particular diction, resonance or pitch and can mimick any particular brand mentioned above. This is why Pinoys sounds like the originals of whatever genres of music. It can be as good as xerox copy of an original, or a reinvented cover. Philippine singers particularly the artist category can dribble out of thin air his, or her vocals forward, backwards, upwards or inwards. It can be comical too like Charlie Chapman, or all the Hollywood artists combined. For every american great singers from jass, ballad and to rock, their always a thousand or million copies across the Philippines, and its not difficult to find these guys. They are in plain sight, or seen in social media, with the karaoke beside. It can dash marathon lines not just fast, but superfast and furious. The Bisaya tongue is easily recognizable with hard-thick accent in ordinary conversation is most maleable and easily intertwined into the tapestry of music world with ease. A long line of these artists ended world class singers competing in global stage and became Holywood greats, or their Philippine lineage came from the Visayan region. At time of birth the infant spoke the English vowels already. By 6mos-1 yr with Karaoke around, and uncles, aunts and neighbors paraded as if engaged in one community singing competition, this child of tender years evolved into the singer class.

I remember my English Teacher in Second Year high school. She is Amazing specially for right grammar and pronunciation.

I think Filipinos have a good command of the English language because of many factors but one of the most overlooked factors is their love for singing especially English songs. Children develop their grammar and diction at an early age and they articulate very well. Also the way they speak opens up their powerful vocal chords again at a very young age. Singing really is a powerful tool to loosen one's tongue and vocal qualities. During the British invasion of the 1960s, Filipinos are big fans of the songs of that era, and even today, those songs are still popular and you know British singers at that time, they got higher pitches and Filipinos don't mind, such raw power can't be taught.

Well I do notice Filipino accents when they speak for some but let them sing the accent would be magically gone and imitate the accent what’s on the song 😅

ANG GANDA MO LALO NGAYON NELLY😊 THE LADY IS BLOOMING😍😗😋😉😇

My 3 year old nephew learned english with american accent through youtube..they are the generations that later tagalog would become our second language in the philippines😁😁😁

Love to see you back❤

watching all your videos makes me feels good, stay safe and god bless you always sweet plums?

Oh hello bubbly Nelly thank you for the upload❤

It's good to see you again in your blog Nellys.

Love this reaction video,

go girl. Philippine❤

Done share this video i love this topic very knowledgeable

English courses/ subjects are part of the curriculumn of Elementary, High School and College education in the Philippines aside from medium of instruction is English

Hi Nelly! I find you very likable! And so sweet !

Ya because some teachers of Asia countries from Philippines 🇵🇭.

I’m proud to be a FILIPINO while watching this video.

i love your channel vlog what's up Philippines you always react about Philippines and our culture 🤭☺️✌️

Nice vlog ms nelly!!keep the good vlog!!god bless!!

We love you Nelie and your sweetheart you’re so nice to us.

My grandniece learns English with American Accent thru You tube by watching a lot of Children Shows now she's having trouble learning Tagalog or Filipino Language she just turned 5 years old and will be enrolling as a Kinder Student and she's having hard time pronouncing Tagalog words she's saying it with slang accents.

I think the "accent" stems from the Filipino language using hard/short vowels. For example, we pronounce MABUHAY as M(ah)b(oo)h(ah)y. Our A is the short hard a, not soft-long æ. So we say (ah)pple instead of æpple. Same with E (eh instead of ee/uh), I (ee instead of ai), O (short o instead of oh), and U (oo instead of yu). Cucumber would be coocoomber instead of cyucumbuhr (although most who learned in school would know how to pronounce it of course) .

I'm a foreign national who is happily married to a Filipina. One of the advantages of Filipinos is their general proficiency in the English language, which is evident in almost all regions of the country. This proficiency can be attributed to the period of American colonialism, during which education and the introduction of the language were emphasized. This stands in contrast to neighboring countries, where language barriers often lead to translation challenges.

Love this content ma'am nelly❤❤❤

My son's first languange is English but we never thought him that language. He is the only English speaker in my and my wife's kin.

because our language (filipino/tagalog) is mixed with spanish words we tend to pronounce as it is written… so we dont follow anyone accents but our own .. plus of english language engagements like as in school, government, movies, musics and conversation physically… so each country has its own “pronunciation” due to its culture…

I love you mam..i love your content..we Filipino...We Love Yuo...❤❤❤

Carabao English sounds awesome❤😊

im a filipino but i also love indian english accent with matching head movement ....

Mabuhay!

Our tongue is the forefront of our culture and of who we are. english is a very interesting and influencial language in the entire world that all peoples wanted to learn! and hearing them speaks with their own tongue amazed me how dramatically diverse people are even when speaking the same language and i love that. there's no perfect english accent for me. not sure if british or american, australian or new zealand. because each has cultural touch on it. just wondering tho, what anglo saxon accent sounds like in those days(in old germany) where english language was originated.

I 💯 agree with her ranking.

Hugs & kisses . .keepsafe nelly.

Here in the Philippines we use & speak English language as a way of communication. It depends to our vocal voice expression...

Indian :Sakshma Srivastav I loved her tone 😊

English is the universal language we need to learn it to communicate to other countries. ..but i like to learn thai language...

Thanks Nelly to share this video, she's smart. I hope more videos to sharing us for our support of your channel. Thank you, be safe and GOD bless you always 🙏💖🙏💚🙏💗🙏💛🙏💜🙏💝🙏💙🙏.

My asawa is Filipina. I love her English accent. Her only issue is pronouns. She sometimes confuses him and her. But that’s understandable when the native word is not gender specific. She sometimes types good morning my wife to me. I return with good morning my husband. Then she gets it. 🤣 She is trying so hard to practice the correct pronouns. 🇵🇭🇺🇸🤙

This is one reason that Philippine Education should be acknowledge and as par with International School.

The video ending seems to be cut? Is there a part 2 on this?

Nice videos ma'am

you are beautiful as always Ate Nelly!!!!! i love you, we love you!!!!

The Jugde is absolutely correct. English is owr 2nd language since birth UpTo college.

There are some Malay words that is similar to Ilocano Filipino dialect. For example ikan means fish also in Ilocano which is similar meaning in Malay. Mangan is eat in Malay and same in Ilocano. 😊We have a Malay blood..that’s why, we are a little bit of everything😅

I’m from Philippines. We learned the American English in school.

Wait for the upcoming generations of English speakers in the Philippines. Hahahah! My nephew has never been in USA. But he speaks, and sounds just that. Hahah. There's actually allot of them.. actually I call them. The RU-vid babys. Hehe.

I love people.

Thats exactly correct. Filipinos follow the american english that is why the pronunciation is clear and audible. But most of our neighbors follow the british english because of political reason, accents and they believe it is the true origin of english language. Am i right? 😂😂😂😂😂

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When I was working with they americans or any other countries.They always ask me since when I learned to speak english. Because my english is good. I answered them since I start studying in Grade 1 because we have english subject in school.

🇵🇭 American English is one of our Subject in school 🏫

During the pandemic kids are notallowed togo out so they watched English cartoonsand RU-vidm mostly learn to speak English

Filipino learned English from U.S.A cause they are the one educate Filipino when we are colony before.

Just curious some of your videos ( I mean lots of them) you're always wearing those black v-shaped t-shirt?

jiji just like a song 😅😅😅😅 Lol ..... from Philippine love this content

We Filipinos could easily adjust our accents in every country we came to. Honestly, we have the well Balance way of speaking English or Neutral.

Here again to show some love. Hug&kiss...

pinoys has the best english in all asia. japanese R is L . the Indians pronouns T like D .Singapore always has Lah~ somewhere which is very cute. Pinoy's english is besides the US and UK but that is overall. a lot of pinoys has bad english too. but we know how to answer yes, no and I don't know which is really big for foreigners. and the way we try to speak in english even if we have little knowledge especially the people from the province like guides and kuya guards. @nelly you should learn tagalog. Imagine if you can be as good as will's tagalog.

You have accent too..its beautiful..

Going back to my college years, my English Professor once told us that "ENGLISH IS A VERY TRICKY LANGUAGE", up until now I'm still thinking about it and can't forget it. 😅

imagine being raised hearing the song "baby shark" before you learned your first word 😂

Specially now a days parents teaching their kids, speaking English.

When i was in uae and everytime i talked to my colleagues (indian,nepal,kenyan etc) i always said sorry my english is slow, they reply that my english is so textbook thats why i have difficulties but that pronunciation is more accurate than them,. Also they said never feel embarrassed if your english is slow,.it's just a language not an intellectual measurement,.as long as it's clear you're good,.

i'm a Filipino i know i have a good accent and i think some people needs more practice to learn how to pronounce it well in natural way like the american accent without exaggeration...

I know the Singaporean speak because I worked in Singapore 34 years ago and they used a lot of British words because of colonial.❤

The younger generation of HK is quite good in English. I can understand them too.

good video Nelly but just it ended unfinished..I always waiting for your byes 😀.

Filipino English accent is good for those learning English, since there a few “disappearing” or altered vowels or consonants. So as a learner, you hear what you read.. WATER is spoken as WATER… not WATUH, MORNING is not spoken as MOHNING

I taught in an ESL school and i asked my students why they chose to study English in the Philippines they said it was cheaper compared to other ESL schools.

Correct Philippines speak good English ❤

Beautiful

even though I haven't degre but I can understand English and I can speak English little bet. because I learned it since I was young, my parents taught me basic words.we used alphabetical.you can see many English words every where here in the Philippines. that's the reason why Filipinos can understand English...you can hear English communication specially Sunday.after drinking alcoholic.😅

Singapore, la

Ate Nelly, kumusta.

that is because PH is taught american english as early prep school. kids these days speak english even before going to school, learning through youtube.

MISS NELLY MAG ARAL KANA NG TAGALOG 😅😅

you sound like the female Arnold Schwarzenegger with the silent "R" like in his movies. very solid.👊🏼👍🏼😄

Here in the Philippines even without proper education they can still speak in english, youll be surprised how fluent they are, “almost” everyone knows how to speak english.

Irony is most Asian countries are even studying english in the Philippines or hire Filipino teachers to teach them english😂

In Malaysian and Singaporean English, I've also noticed they add the word 'lah' after every sentence. They speak so fast that it seems they disregard punctuation marks. Personally, as a Filipino, I also prefer the Indian accent over the rest because although they have this rhythmic like tones their pronunciation is much clearer and they know when to end their sentences.

Hi Nelly! 😊💙

We are massive call center here 🤣😁👌

Yea

English is our second language. We have two sets of alphabet, english and filipino. Our text books are all in english the only required books in tagalog is in our filipino class. Our school is very strict with proper pronunciation and grammar. The accent cannot be avoided because of our native tongue and we speak many different dialect not to mention some spanish language integrated in our daily conversation from being colonized for over three hundred years.

Back in my High School days I mean 1990, our English teacher will not allow us to speak our own language except English during our subject period, and we will be fined in certain amount that the whole class agreed upon, so unless you learned the word or the phrases to speak, you better keep your mouth shut, and as expected English period were the quietest moment, LOL and the same goes in College where our Teacher expects we can easily speak and communicate. These are the factors and the English movie and the songs, and our relatives abroad we really need to learn

As a Filipino in Taiwan who teaches English as a part time.. we were colonized by the US. A lot of things here were influenced by Americans. Growing up, my parents used to believe that speaking good English will take us further in life in terms of career. I cannot recall the age I started learning English.. maybe since birth. Or maybe since I am inside the womb lol. I listened to american music, watched cartoons in English. All encyclopedias and almanacs for kids are in English. 10 years of basic Education and Filipino subject is the only subject where you are allowed to speak Filipino. I remembered there was a penalty for us when we speak Tagalog (like 5 pesos when someone heard you). I didn’t like the culture where I was shamed for having bad grammar (by my fellow Filipinos). I always believed that speaking good Tagalog is where I should focus on since I am a Filipino. I do admire the countries that focus on preserving their language like Taiwan and Japan.. having good English is a plus but I think we should love our own and not shame others for speaking poorly in their second language. My English never got better in the Philippines because I was often shamed for my shortcomings. I only improved here in Taiwan where I met my American friend who is very encouraging in almost all aspects of my life (and I had copied her accent I guess lol). Speaking another language requires confidence. Improving takes a lot of mistakes. So dont be ashamed to make mistakes. Just practice and it will get better. For me accents are beautiful. I dont mind when people say I have a Filipino accent when speaking in English. I am a Filipino, so I have that accent. :P

Filipinos have either American English accent or a neutral accent which is really good. English and Tagalog are Philippines' official languages.

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I only can say, SAME SAME😂😂😂😂😂

Salamat dahil kinikilla ang pilipinas na isa sa mahusay sa ingles.malinaw pakinggan at madaling maintindihan.👍🏻❤

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