Chavacano (IS THIS SPANISH?!) 

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Gracias Paul! I was born and raised in Zamboanga City and I speak Chavacano. When i worked as a Nurse here in the US, particularly in Texas, some of my Mexican patients and their families often wonder why I understood and able to speak their language. I even used chavacano to establish trust with patients, and able to translate spanish to my coworkers. I am thankful about this video. Bien mucho informacion para intende y sabe, y dale impotancia este lengwahe de Zamboanga. Gracias y vaya con dios!

As an Argentinian, I got like 80% of everything they said on the video linked in the description. I agree with other people in the comments that I see Filipinos as our Asian brothers and wish we had a better understanding of each other (most people here don't even know about the Spanish invasion in the Philippines).

now in millenials. they speak tagalog,spanish,and english in one sentence. ex. may cake sa plato.

It's so amazing to learn this as a Mexican! ¡Un abrazo a todos los hermanos filipinos!

Saludos a todos los amigos hispanos del mundo desde África Guinea Ecuatorial 🇬🇶

Native Spanish here. I watched the chavacano video and could understand about 80%. I'm so surprised...

As a filipina (fluent in tagalog) who studies spanish in school, I feel like I can understand around 80% of chavacano based on the videos I’ve seen of people speaking that language on youtube. Chavacano reminds me of how I use to form sentences when I was first learning Spanish 😂😂😂 I use to plug in random tagalog words and hope it made sense in spanish since we tend to share some vocabulary.

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I'm from Barcelona, and I'm sure that any Spanish speaker can understand the majory of Chavacano. I find this SO interesting!

The way Paul pronounced the province and town names in the Philippines, including the Philippine dialects, is very amazing!

As a Peruvian living in Sydney Got lots lots of friends from the Filipinas, they are so funny tho, love Filipinas ❤️

I live in Limón, Costa Rica, one of the Southeasternmost points of what was New Spain. A bit North from where I live there are many populations named after Filipino places: Bataan, Luzon, Matina, Davao, etc. It's curious, especially since I don't think there are people with well-defined Filipino descent living here.

Un abrazo a nuestros hermanos filipinos o pilipinos desde Perú. A big hug to our Filipinos or Pilipinos brothers, from Peru.

I'm a native chavacano. 100% Zamboangueńa. And I find this video very informative and flawlessly elaborated.☺️

I'm from Spain and i'm absolutely surprised about similarities between Chavacano and Spanish! I was watching some minutes of the related video in Chavacano and i've been able to understand a lot of sentences and also about what they were talking. Obviously, sometimes i wasn't able to understand some sentences or some words. But i thought it would be more difficult for me. I knew about the Spanish language heritage in Philippines but i never thought it would be something like that nowadays, something so strong! 🤩🤩🤩 Un fuerte abrazo a los filipinos!! 😉😉😉

That moment mexicans and filipinos sat side by side. Other people: I am confusion

I’ve watched this before but I still enjoyed watching this how accurate and very well researched. 🇵🇭 🇪🇸 🇲🇽

A swede with 9th grade Spanish here, I managed very well during my visit to Zamboanga last year. Heavy mix of spanish, bisaya, and English ensued on my part. My favorite country! Saving up money for properties, to move there.

God bless the Philippines 🇵🇭 ! The Latinos will always love you guys , we can understand Cabacano so well , greetings from El Salvador 🇸🇻

I'm actually Irish but I learnt Spanish and now teach it in Ireland in secondary school. I've lived in Spain before and visit actually. I do have some Filipino students in my school many of whom opt for Spanish over French and German, which makes a lot of sense after having watched this video. They tend to pick up Spanish easily.

Soy filipina y me encanta la lengua española. Creo q es muy importante aprenderlo. Además es parte de nuestra historia 😊 Saludos a todos los hispanohablantes

I know it is not posible, but, I wished that the Philippines still spoke Spanish, or at least have Spanish as an official Language, I'm Latin American, and I see Filipinos as our asian cousins, even if we spoke different Languages

Native Spanish speaker here, few years ago I saw in Netflix a Philippine's movie I think in Tagalo with English subtitles, I'm not a snob, I left Spain 20 years for English speaking countries, but I was surprised for the amount of words in Spanish. Anyhow, I think learning another language helps you to open your mind and try to understand.

Paul, you are one of the most valuable persons who contribute to RU-vid and academics in general.

I’m currently learning Spanish Language now , and Im from Zamboanga City, Watching this really helped a lot. 😊

As a Mexican I found this video really interesting, I knew there were old relationships between my country and the Philippines, I knew part of the history, but I had never read or watched a video comparing the languages. Regarding the link video I could understand a lot of the context, some words were really clear some others not much. I love how some of the people even look similar to us, I hope our countries could start bigger relationships again, we must have a lot of other things in common.

Hi, Paul! You are very good at what you do! Thanks for sharing your informative videos! More power to you!

Mexican here, hope I can travel to Zamboanga soon, filipinos are really awesome people

Native Spanish speaker here. I watched the video of the Chavacano tv program. I understood around 70% of what they said. Also, it's quite evident how English loan words have entered the language. Thanks for the video, Paul. Good job as always

wow, I can't believe that I could understand what people were saying in the video, chavacano creol is really similar to spanish. I'm a native Spanish speaker, I'm from Dominican republic "The second largest island in the Caribbean" and I started learning English in 2016, I also noticed that Chavacano has a lot of English words such as Christmas shoppers, police man and others, so Chavacano has Spanish, English and native philippines languages's vocabulary as well, I loved it, it's awesome how human beings create new forms to communicate each other anywhere. I really liked this video, thank you for teaching us new things in each video.

Saludos a nuestros hemanos filipinos..desde München.😍

While I was an intern in a government hospital in Manila, we had a pediatric patient from Zamboanga who spoke only Chavacano and couldn't understand Tagalog or English. The only person able to communicate with him was one of the residents who came from a mestizo family who spoke Spanish at home and went to a school that had Spanish as a subject. She said she just had to simplify her Spanish and add some Tagalog words and she could generally get her message across. She herself had no problem understanding Chavacano probably because she was exposed to both of its root languages.

Estoy orgulloso de ser un chavacano en mi cuidad de zamboanga, THE ASIA’S LATIN CITY

As a tagalog speaker, i noticed that the chavacano sentences you gave were mostly spanish vocabulary words put together with tagalog/bisaya grammar. Really interesting

And we do use "¿mande?" in Spain as well. It sounds a bit old fashioned and colloquial but definitely not out of use.

Thank you so much.!! I am native Spanish speaker and I learned English as an adult. I want to say that always Philippine phenomenon was interesting for me. I don't understand almost anything in Tagalog, just Spanish words. Now because of your video I notice the great influence of English structure in Tagalog grammar mixed with Spanish and Philippine words. That's my impression. Thank you.

As a native from Spain I'd say I understood maybe 70% of the words but more like 90% of the message. Some of the words are English so that also helped. It seems it would be really fast to pick up.

Man, your channel and work is out of this world!!! Congratulations!!

Aquí en andalucia "chabacano" significa algo bueno, una persona amigable, una buena persona. Creo que ese es el significado real y original de la palabra"chabacano" aquí hay muchas palabras que aún quedan fijas en su significado original. Creo que se ha ido deformando por las intenciones o prejuicios ajenos, aquí gracias a Dios, aún conservan su significado original, si se les puso chabacanos, seguro que fue, por que eran grandes personas y seguro, aún lo siguen siendo.

I am so glad to see our languages being represented , I am Mexican and Filipino and I grew up speaking Tagalog and chavacano from my dad and Spanish and Portuguese from my mom. Thank you Paul for making this video :)

Finally, Chavacano gets recognition. Also, some Cavitenos migrated to Zamboanga which played in the spread of Chavacano.

En España tenemos una frase "Los últimos de Filipinas", se aplica a quienes resisten hasta el último momento y aún después, y procede de unos soldados españoles que siguieron luchando contra los estadounidenses después del final de la guerra hispanoamericana, porque no se creían que España se hubiese rendido ante los americanos anglohablantes. Pues bien ¡¡Los hablantes de chavacano son los auténticos "Últimos de Filipinas"!!

i am a chavacano and i never thought that are dialect is good and love to hear by others non speaking chavacano...gracias por de ostedes amor na di amun dialecto👌

Just to be clear, the national anthem of the Philippines was originally written in Spanish language. It was just translated in tagalog. The original national anthem of the Philippines is Marcha National Filipina It goes like this: Tierra adorada hija del sol de oriente Su fuego ardiente en ti la tiendo esta Patria de amores del heroismo cuna ........ just search for it

Hola. I loved this video!! I am from Chile, so Spanish is my L1. I worked with Filipinos some years ago and I noticed a lot of Spanish words (also English words) when they spoke, and I thought it was pretty weird, of course I didn't know the history behind it then (Spanish colonization and all) . Now this Chavacano thing makes a lot of sense to me now. Well, I watched a clip of Chavacano TV (not the link you shared, that one doesn't show ANY Chavacano, really) and I could understand a lot of words and context, although the structure of the words confused me a great deal. I could understand... maybe 75% of it, but also there were images, so I could figure it out but the videos as well... I don't know how well I could have an actual conversation with a Chavacano speaking Filipino, but it'd be really fun to find out :) Thanks, Paul, for your awesome channel

Wow. Cant believe a foreigner is explaining this so well. 😯

My girlfriend is from Zamboanga City and speaks Chavacano as her first language. I learned a lot from her and from your video here, Paul. Thank you and keep making these well-organized and interesting videos! Edit: Also, congratulations on 1 million views for this video!

Saludos cordiales desde España a los hermanos filipinos.

After clicking the link, I was amazed by how much I could understand Chavacano. As a native Spanish and English speaker studying French, I found this easier to understand than any other romance language, even Portuguese which is very similar to Spanish. I could understand about 80% of what they were saying, which is quite astonishing concidering that this is the first time I've heard the language.

Mexican here, so interesting to find these similarities, not only about language, but also of the cultural interactions, maybe I have a lost long distance cousin in the Philippines, no entendí nada del video, solo algunas palabras, pero no logré identificar los mensajes principales :(

I understand about 90%. My native language is Spanish. Chabacano sounds nice.

I am a pure blooded Zamboangueño, I speak Chavacano as my primary language, Filipino as 2nd, English as 3rd, Visayan as 4th... and so on. It's really amazing to see an actual breakdown of how our language is constructed, as opposed to just being a person who speaks it. I mean, I had to study English to learn the proper placement of subjects, verbs, predicates, etc. Same as Filipino (Tagalog). But being in-born with the language itself, it really amazes me that it is actually as hard as it sounds, especially if I will have to learn my own language in class or something. Thank you so much for this video! Muchos y mas Gracias, y Via con Dios!

Ah chavacano, such a beautiful language! Soy filipino y estoy aprendiendo español por mi mismo (pero antes aprendí un poco castellano en Madrid) - creo que aprender el idioma es más fácil para mi porque algunas palabras españoles son parecidas a la filipino. Y además también creo que español es una parte muy importante de nuestra cultura filipina.

cuando hablo con filipinos si lo hacen despacio los entiemdo, ya que coinciden muchas palabras con el español.

It's very interesting to see how language changes over time in a certain culture. Great explanations!

I am catalan. It is facinating to see the influences in a creole language. I can see similar blending phenomena as in Papiamentu. I also remember a philippino lady who used to cook adobo and escabeche, Spanish traditional dishes highly enriched with exotic flavours from the Philippines. Yummy-exquisito!

This is absolutely fascinating. Thanks Paul

I studied Spanish in a US high school, and it was actually pretty easy in the beginning because of growing up with Tagalog spoken in the house. Having heard about Chavacano, I've been interested in visiting Zamboanga and using the Spanish that I learned. Obviously I can't right now due to the pandemic, but it's definitely on the list of places to see. It's interesting to know that Cavite also has their own version of Chavacano, and that's actually much closer to me distance-wise.

Hahaha in Mexico, chabacano means “apricot”, so I was quite surprised there was a language called that as well! 😂 Learning new stuff everyday :P

My hometown Zamboanga city is a small Latin city Gracias❤

I am from Argentina and the video in chabacano sounds like a radio with interference you can understand arround 60/80 % it varies of your knowing of english. So you can understant the general meaning but some details can be lost. Thanks for the video, it's very interesting

I saw the video that you linked... i understood most of it: I'm Mexican-American

I love my language chabacano and never ever forget until I die. I grew up in Australia ever since I speak the same language with my family. At work they heared me talking and they asked me that I speak Spanish I said no it's different but they insist it's Spanish language. I can't argue with them as they understand me. It's good about speaking chabacano because it's our secret language to Latin people and other countries in central America we are not to be let down by being bullied. To me chabacano is a special language in the world that lots of foreigners questions about it who are we and why we have this language. Muchos gracias kon estos ya insiña kanaton este lenguahe y era hende perde el di aton costumbre tambien si cosa kita ya aprende. Vaya con Dios.

I'm a spanish native speaker, and for me hear chavacano is similar to hear portuguese but with a diferent accent, I can get lot of words but I can't understand the majority of the sentences.

Thanks Paul! I am Zamboangeño and yes i speak Chavacano. The only language in the Philippines that's closer to Spanish. This is fascinating (:

Im a hispanic person and i never knew there was spanish based creole😭😭

Although I lived in Spain now, my father's city is Zamboanga. I wish I could visit that place again 😪

This is so interesting and finding a lot of people who comment in this video makes me so excited. The Philippines will soon be celebrating the 500th year of Christianization of the Philippines on 2021. I cannot help but think of the Spanish Philippines, Spanish Galleon, Mexico, Pacific Ocean, Lapu-Lapu etc.

Hola Filipinos 👋✌

Thank you for this interesting information! I'm a native German speaker and live in Costa Rica studying and working since 9 years, my Spanish level is a C2. Listening to the video of the chabacano news I was pretty surprised that I could understand very much.

I love your videos!! Feels like connecting to the past and to other countries as well.

I heard the video and was able to understand like 50% of content. It was a interesting mix of Spanish, English and native Filipino languages. I am a Mexican, by the way. It's a shame relations with the Philippines were cut so abruptly due to our Independence. I am an ignorant about modern Philippines. Would it be fair to say that Filipinos are the Latins of Asia? It has always intrigued me why even during the years of American occupation of the Phillipines the people preserved their Spanish names and last names. Good video. Liked it a lot

You used more informal or familiar conversational spelling of words in Chavacano. As a native Chavacano speaker and conservator myself, we highly discourage it. Local news broadcasting and primary mother tongue language education are highly encouraged to use the formal and proper Chavacano spellings as much as possible and as much knowledgeable they are with proper Chavacano spellings. So in formal or proper Chavacano spelling, your sample Chavacano sentences would be encouragingly spelled as follows: You teach children = Ta enseña ustedes maga bata. "Ta enseña ustedes na maga bata" literally means "You are teaching the children" and not "You teach children." The word "insinya" is an informal spelling of the word "enseña". Also, the word "maga" is used and sometimes "mana" and not the Tagalog word spelled as "mga" and pronounced as /ma-nga/. "Ama yo contigo" literally means "I will love you" where the future marker "ay" is implied in the sentence and is synonymous to "Ay ama yo contigo" (also means "I wil love you."), "Yo el ama contigo" and "Yo ay ama contigo" which all means "I will love you" but in different sentence orders. "El" though used mainly as an article for both female, male, or neutral gender is also used in replacement of "ay" as a future tense marker. The widely used and accepted Chavacano sentence for "I love you" is "Ta ama yo contigo" which literally means "I am loving you" or "I am in love with you". "Ta ama" means "love" in the present tense, "yo" means "I", and "contigo" means "you" as the object of the sentence with "con-" acting as object marker. Also some of the words in the table shown should formally and properly be spelled as: "usted" is also spelled and accepted as "uste" without the "-d" as it is also pronounced most of the time without the "d" sound. "evos/vos" and not "ebos/bos" "con usted" or "con uste" and not "conusted" "con vos" and not "conbos" "con ele" and not "conele" "con ustedes" and not "conustedes" "ellos" and not "elyos" "con ellos" and not "conelyos" The words "nosotros" and "con nosotros" are also encouraged to be used by older speakers though "kita", "kame", "kanamon", and "kanaton" are much widely used and are also accepted but should be spelled like most Austronesian words using a "k" and not "c". "This is Pablo" is translated in Chavacano as "Este si Pablo" or "Si Pablo este". Though the contracted word for "este" which is " 'ste " is widely used in conversation, it is highly discouraged in writing especially in formal writing and spelling of Chavacano words. Next, the Chavacano phrase for "free time" is "libre hora" and not "libre ora". We don't encourage the spelling of "time" or "hour" as "ora", though it is the informal and conversational spelling used by most due to lack of Chavacano literature and language rules in grammar, spelling, and orthography. "I love their house" in Chavacano should be properly spelled as "Ta ama yo de ila casa". Though "di ila" is widely used, but "de ila" is the highly encouraged spelling. Again, this is due to lack of knowledge by the masses in Chavacano spellings and due to lack of language rules in orthography and spelling of words. Next, the particle "ika" used for ordinal Chavacano numbers is widely used by the masses, but the encouraged and proper spelling is "aca-" and not "ika-". Also, with today's Chavacano conservators and older speakers who want to conserve the language through formal rules and language regulations encourage the use of Spanish ordinal numbers alongside using the non-Spanish ordinal numbers. So, ordinal numbers in Chavacano would properly be: 1st = "una" or "primero/primera" or a bit informal "aca-uno" or "aca-una" 2nd = "aca-dos" or "segundo/segunda" 3rd = "aca-tres" or "tercero" while "tercera" is rarely used 4th = "aca-cuatro" is used as "cuarto" and "cuarta" can be confusing with the words for "room" and another word for "money". 5th = "aca-cinco" or "quinto/quinta" and so on.... Also, we encourage Chavacano speakers to use the Spanish spelling of numbers and not the Tagalized spellings. So, we should be using "uno, dos, tres, cuatro, cinco, seis, siete, ocho, nueve, diez, once, doce, trece, catorce, quince, diez y seis, diez y ocho, diez y nueve, veinte, etc." and not "uno, dos, tres, kwatro, singko, sais/sahis, syete/siyete, otso, nuebe/nuwebe, dies/diyes, onse, dose, trese, katorse, kinse, disisais, disisiyete, disiotso, disinuwebe, beinte/beynte". "The book will be published in five languages" in proper Chavacano would be "El libro ay queda publicao/publicado en/na cinco lenguaje." "ay" is used for "will" and "queda" is used in replace for "be" though "queda" also means "stay" in both Spanish and Chavacano. "Publicado" is also used or "publicao" as in most Chavacano words lose the "d" in words ending in "ado" like "pescado" or fish will be "pescao" in Chavacano. Newscasting uses "publicao" or "publicado" or the English word "publish' is used and turned into "man-publish" and will be "El libro ay man-publish na cinco lenguaje." "ay queda" can also mean "will be turned into", "will be going", or "will going to be" aside from "will be". "El libro man-sale na cinqo lenggwahe" is not a Chavacano sentence at all. There's no such thing as "man-sale" that exist in the language. We might use "ay sale" or "man-publish". As far as my knowledge as a native speaker living currently and all my life in the city of Zamboanga, "man" is used and only attached to English, Tagalog, Chavacano or any language's nouns or to Englsh, Tagalog, or any language's basic verb loanwords to turn them into Chavacano verbs. I never heard of it as a prefix that makes a verb distributive all my life. So we can say "man-experience" (man+English word) or "man-danas" (man+Tagalog word) which means "to experience" or "to be experienced" and not "man-experiencia" (man+Chavacano word). So, "man-sale" which is man+Chavacano word "sale" is not used. Instead, "man-out", "man-labas", "man-publish", or "man-limbag" are used for "to publish", "to be published", or "be published" . Again, "will be published" is "ay queda publicao/pulicado" , "ay man-publish", or "ay sale" and not "man-sale" and not even "ay man-sale". Also, we might use the spelling "singko" or "cinco" but not "cinqo", and we encourage the use of the spelling "lenguaje" and not the Tagalized "lengwahe" or "lenguwahe". This sentence really made me mad. My first impression was "This is not Chavacano." On the other hand, "lenguaje" both means the languages spoken by communities of people and the general concept of language. "Idioma" is also used by some older speakers and by most language conservators (which includes teachers, writers, songwriters, musicians, artists, professors, and students who are interested in conserving and protecting the Chavacanolanguage and to promote its proper and formal usage in all aspects especially in writing, and are either just learned and interested in the Chavacano language or also learned and interested in both Spanish and Chavacano languages). Lastly, the sentence "They left out without paying for the drink" is translated properly as "Ya sale sila sin pagada/pago para con el tomada" or "Ya sali sila no hay paga para con el tomada". "Without paying" is properly translated as "sin pagada". "Sin" means "without" in Chavacano while "pagada" is like a gerrund form of "paga" or "pay". "paying" is used and it is in progressive form but with the word "without", it acts like a noun and in a gerrund form as if it is a thing that is without or an action that the subject didn't do or act. So, "sin pagada" is used. On the other hand, "sin pago" literally means "without payment" and can also mean "without paying" as nouns can also act as verbs in Chavacano dpeending on sentence order and words used. "No hay paga" can also be used and is acceptable as a translation for "without paying" though it literally means "didn't pay" and not "without paying" (again, "without paying" should be "sin pagada" or "sin pago"). So, "Ya sale sila no hay paga con el tomada" can be used and is accepted. "No hay" can also mean "without" as it is but when attached to verbs it means "didn't" . It is also spelled either as "no hay" with a space or "nohay" or sometimes erroneously as "noay" or "nuway", but I never saw someone spell it as "nway". We don't have words in Chavacano that begins in "nw". Also, "con el" and not "kunel" as it is "con ele" and not "kunele". Again, the sentence "They left out without paying for the drink" is "Ya sale sila sin pagada/pago para con el tomada". I used "para" for the word "for" is used. If it is just "They left out without paying the drink", then "Ya sale sila sin pagada/pago con el tomada" is the best translation. The sentence order can also be changed into: "Sila ya sale sin pagada para con el tomada." "Sila ya sale sin pago para con el tomada." "Sila ya sale no hay paga para con el tomada." Thanks for making this video, but as a self-proclaimed language conservator or Chavacano enthusiast, I need to make some clarifications and comments from a native speaker's perspective with a bit more knowledge of the language. :)

this is so cool! I absolutely learned a lot from this video. I grew up in Zamboanga City and no school teaches chavacano or how exactly this language came up. thanks for the video!

as a Chavacano speaker, I have talked to a lot of Mexican when I was staying in Panorama City, L.A. where lots of Filipinos and Mexicans lived, we understood each other easily.

That video is amazing. I can understand a lot of the Chavacano news. There's plenty of Spanish and English, which makes sense given the History of the country.

More of 400 years of relations between México and Philipines. Both countries like the box 🎉🎊🇵🇭🇲🇽🎉🎊

I'm a filipino learning Spanish and I have a stroke everytime i listen to chavacano, it sounds to me like one of those videos of how english sounds like to non native speakers. In my case i see both native words and spanish ones.

Huh. Chavacano is literally spanish in tagalog syntax. That is why it has that VSO and Predicate-Subject form. Fun!

Thank you for this video. I am a Cotabato native, and Chavacano was our family's language, especially among our elders. It is not spoken as much by my generation. even less so by those who followed us. I understand it and can speak it, but it no longer comes out as natural as it did with my parents. For her doctoral thesis, my aunt wrote "A Composite Dictionary of Philippine Creole Spanish (PCS)". In Cotabato, fewer people probably speak it now than 50 years ago, with the old timers of the city passing on. But I hope the language is preserved as a cultural heritage.

I find it really interesting how the Chavacano language has evolved and mixed with Tagalog and other local languages. Greetings from Madrid

Thanks proud Chavacano speaker here from Zamboanga... Thumbs up!!!

Aawww Mexican Spanish is my first language and I'm amazed. I didn’t know there's a Spanish creole in Philipines. That's so interesting. Actually, it was pretty weird to me because in the north of Mexico there's a fruit, similar to peach which name is chabacano

Quiero mandar saludos a todos chabacanos en la ciudad de Cavite y la ciudad de Zamboanga. ..Arriba y viva Filipinas especialmente la lenguaje de chabacano. ..

I am Cebuano and there's also a lot of Visaya words similar to Spanish. It feels like i want to learn Chavacano too😍

Very interesting. I am Mexican and did not know anything about Chavacano. I saw TV Patrol in Chavacano and could understand more or less what they were talking about, the main topic, like between 30 or 40%, but only when the reporters where talking. I did not understand anything when somebody was interviewed. I think the language reporters use is closer to standard Spanish than the everyday Chavacano. Thank you for your great videos.

Muy Bien Amigo..the most informative of all vlogs here in YT..i hope you had the time to feature the older chavacano native speakers of rural Zamboanga too

Hermanos filipinos: la HISPANIDAD es una enorme y acogedora familia en la cual siempre seréis recibidos con alegría. Los lazos de la sangre perduran a través de los siglos y la memoria de los pueblos atraviesa las generaciones y los océanos.

Haha in Spanish, "Ama yo contigo" sounds like "Loves I with you". So interesting

thankyou for your hardwork studying and sharing about this important part of philippine language and history that most filipinos don’t even know .love the illustrations

Native Hispanic here: I can understand a 80% or 60% but depends how talk the people

You can search for "TV Patrol Chavacano" --- a local/regional news telecast in Zamboanga city and listen how Chavacano sounds and how it is so closed with Spanish.

Thank you for making this Video. I'm also a Chavacano speaker from Cavite, Filipinas

It's interesting to learn more about my country, tempted to learn all of it and incorporate it in something like a project or something

Chavano mostly are old spanish language, Castilian, so its the original spanish language specifically in Castil spain, now it is mixed with the local dialect cebuano and other bisayan dialects,

I remember working back in the call center, next to the Spanish speaking agents who are Chavacanos. All of them briefly studied Spanish to correct how they construct sentences. It was fascinating back then,

Very interesting ! I'm from Colombia and I could understand at least 80% of what the host and the reporters said but when the interviewed people were speaking I barely got the context hahahahaha. I wish the Philippines hadn't lost their Spanish heritage or at least they would have kept using the Spanish language with more influence as a second language, perhaps :3 Saludos a los Filipinos que me logren entender ;)

I'm a Spanish speaker from Sevilla and I'm understanding 85% of chabacano phrases, is a simplification of Spanish language with some Asians prepositions, the most important difference is the grammar, Spanish grammar is similar from Portuguese, Italian and French, but the Change SVO VSO is not a problem. Per example the Spanish speakers can say Enrique miró a Elisa, but we can say Miró Enrique a Elisa(this is more poetic). The change SVO VSO is not a problem, It's is common in Spanish poetic literature.

What a great channel you have! ❤️😊 Thank you for showing it to the world. I totally agree with you that Chavacano was a Philippine language that is closest to Spanish. I also got an interest to it's language since my aunt married a man in Mindanao and speak Chavacano. Although Visayan my spoken language has Spanish words but a person speaks Chavacano have great advantage to learn Spanish sentences faster. Our national language which was Tagalog had also spanish words but has the farthest structure for an individual to learn Spanish sentence. Can be familiarized with some word but have less ability to speak it in sentence. Anyhow more power for you! ❤️💕