Yeah, especially in Cebu City. Most Cebuanos don't want to learn Tagalog. Same for the Tagalog speaking people, most of them don't want to learn or speak the Bisayan dialects. I live there before that's why I know.
Three things I know why filipinos are good at speaking english 1. It uses for job interview. 2. In school, teachers taught us how to speak and write in english. 3. Television & books.
Students be like : (Filipino Talking to friends : always fluent in speaking in English But in recitation (in front of the whole class) : ah - ahh- I can't do this BTW guys I want to start RU-vid channel plsss subscribe to me plsss ... Thank you for likes
We filipinos start learning english at a very young age usually in pre school like nursery, kinder prep some of the books , coloring books are all in english teachers speak english to students so they learn from them and eventually students can easily speak english
English is introduced to us as early as 5yrs. Old...most kids nowadays are fluent in english because of the cartoons they watch and the social media as well...even the pronounciation thru phonics...
Since Elementary i learn English because the teacher told me study hard English and that's the requirements of student that's why all Filipino is very good English🇵🇭❤🇰🇷
Even Filipino kids knows how to communicate in English. Because at an early age parents are teaching them at home or allowing them to watch english cartoons. And when they go to school, that's where their English communication skills develop.
Speaking english here in philippines is natural bcoz kindergaten to college all the subject are written in english except filipino and history subject. When i was in college all my prof. encourage me to speak english when i do my demo, except filipino subject. And now everyday i speak english bcoz my pupils in kindergarten can't understand bisaya, if i speak bisaya or tagalog my pupils told me teacher i don't understand what you are saying. And here also i remember before, when i was in high school if you are good in english you are smart.... I like your reaction to that child....😊😊😊 God bless and stay safe always.
I don’t think you are forced to speak in English. We didn’t start learning in elementary or high school, it’s when you enter pre school or kindergarten. Some parents choose to speak English to their kids when they are born.
You know most of the kids here in Philippines can speak english too like 2 or 3 years old because their parents talk them in english. We also learned english on internet like facebook. If you can see here it too in Philippines we don't usually used Tagalog like in like in ano HAHHAHAHAHAHHQ. We can't speak in pure tagalog because sometimes we don't know the word in tagalog. So our language is TAGLISH mixed tagalog and english like SANA ALL HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
For some strange reason, kids find learning English easier than Filipino. My brother speaks to my nephew and nieces in both languages but they prefer replying in English. I will have to make them practice speaking in Filipino as well.
In elementary we were fined if we don't speak english. There were days when that rules was implented. For us to learn how to communicate well in english.
This will be done mostly on english, science and math subject. . Nagiging tahimik ang classroom . .may magtataas lang ng kamay kc mag ex excuse mag cr. .
I remember in 6th grade, we were required to speak english the moment we step in school premises. To avoid getting fined, we started adding suffixes like -er, -tion, -ize everytime we accidentally say words in vernacular.
Filipinos are truly friendly and welcoming of foreigners. A lot of Koreans are learning English in the Philippines and I've seen a lot of them really speaking the language clearly and fluently.
i love watching korean tv shows and ive noticed that theyre so amazed everytime they hear someone talk in english..then i met some koreans in my university,we became good friends and they told me that english is really a big deal in korea like youre one or two steps ahead if u know how to speak english..
English begin at home. Our parents teach us from numbers to alphabet. Thats why our language is halo halo or mix mix. You can't speak straight bisaya or tagalog without any mix of English words.
Being once an American colony has a great influence on the Filipino culture especially the language ... philippines is the most westernized country in Asia.. we love western music.. tv shows... movies... that's so much exposure to the English language
I Learned english because I discovered RU-vid and started randomly exploring. I quickly got attached to it unlike some children they normally play outside. When I was a Kid I was an introvert I don't even speak in school at all I was kinda shy to speak english but as time flies by I started getting really confident and picked up an accent from movies that I watch with my Family and here I am now speaking the language normally.
During my grandfather's time, Spanish was the medium of instruction. He took up law in Colegio de Sto. Tomas. Later, after WWII, he became the Secretary to the Mayor of Cebu City and was often asked to speak before the public. He had to learn English on his own. In his old age, he would often recite Jose Rizal's "Mi Ultimo Adios" first in Spanish, then in English, then in Cebuano. My Lolo (grandfather) was truly an amazing guy!!! After WWII, the Americans occupied the Philippines and established the "Normal Schools." Even in public schools (in Cebu), English was used as the medium of instruction. That's why many Cebuanos could speak and understand basic or conversational English. Educators should understand that most of our textbooks are written in English. Books in Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, etc. are mostly if not all are written in English. A child who has a wide vocabulary in English would easily comprehend the text compared to one whose vocabulary is quite limited. Today, English has become the "lingua franca" of the BPO Industry. Listening, speaking, writing, and reading in English should be cultivated as an entry level skill to getting jobs at Contact Centers.
from the moment a Filipino child is born parents usually speak simple English to them...for example: "i love you baby" or when they are a bit older they say "beautiful eyes" for babies to make cute faces....so they start early with words that is commonly used, like shoes, slippers, phone, pencil, bag etc etc etc and many others 😁 .... start early with simple words and slowly incorporate them to other english words
@@lourdes86179 according to 1897 world encyclopedia. Jewish refugees studied spanish language before they fled to the 🇵🇭 during hitler dictatorship 1935.
It's true. When my Lolo's Mother still alive she speak and understand Spanish and English than Tagalog HHAAHAHHA She's 95 years old that time and I'm 8?. By the way Bisaya is out mother tongue. Back then she keep on telling my Lolo that we must learn how to speak Spanish
I taught my son to speak Filipino and English at the same time when he was a baby. But now he's 7 years old he speaks english fluently. He even better than me. But the sad thing is he cannot speak Filipino fluently. That's is also what I noticed in other children. So now I'm talking with him in Filipino even he answers in English to me.
Oppa, English is taught starting from Kindergarten or Pre-School until College. My father is from Luzon and my Mother is from Cebu and Dumaguete, They both speak English at home because Mom can't understand my Fathers Dialect and my Dad dont understand Bisaya. So we speak English to Dad because he don't understand Bisaya..😊
@@leeanne1979 , Hello, I think it's about being more comfortable with the second language. I don't know if it's the case with the op's parents but I would like to give an idea why. To be honest, here in Bisaya places (esp in my locality and other Bisdak places that I've been), we do not use Tagalog that much compared to English. The signages are in English sometimes translated to Bisaya. Programs are in Bisaya or English - even church services are between the two. In my case, since we don't have TV or radio so we don't hear Tagalog. Pero pag nakakarinig ako ng radio from neighbors, more on English and Bisaya pa rin (though some songs being played are Tagalog). The newspapers are in English (even in the school libraries) and I see more Bisaya tabloids too (noon may Tagalog tabloids akong nakikita pero wala na masyado ngayon). Our socmed is full of either in Bisaya and English - there are lots of Bisaya influencers na rin and Bisaya singers and songs. In my place, there are weeks that I don't hear Tagalog being spoken at all. Siguro napapakinggan lang (like songs) pero hindi nagagamit. Maybe op's parents have the same experience that I have (for non-Tagalog speakers) so they automatically use English as second language. That feeling that you understand Tagalog but do not know how to speak it properly. If I use Tagalog, I usually think first in Cebuano then my mind try to translate it to English first then to Tagalog. I actually don't why hahaha. Sorry if this is too long :)
@@jayjunwellgilig570, Maypa ka Jay. It's on the individual Jud and how they are comfortable w/ using a 2nd language ay. Aq, I'm not exposed to Tagalog kaayo so I don't have someone to speak to. Wrong grammar pa gale qs Bisaya (halos everyday ginakasab-an sa mudra), samot nas English 😅
There are so many dialects in PH. For other Filipino people, English is easier to learn than Tagalog. People from provinces(with their own language) communicate to Tagalog speaking people in English.
First of all, English is the medium of instruction in the Philippines. We study and learn from pre-school to post graduate studies using the English language. Needless to say we learn the English language in school. Then we get better at it as we use it in our daily lives: reading newspapers or books, watching movies/tv series and shows, listening to music, etc. But English is not enough for us. There is much we can say well only in Filipino/Tagalog. I think Filipinos are evolving in the way they process their thoughts and feelings because we use both Tagalog and English.... If you put together in one room different English speaking nationalities and make them discuss a topic, you will notice not only different accents but mostly different use of English to develop their ideas. Nowadays, many Filipinos are not only bilingual but multilingual. The world is getting small. Or maybe Philippines is getting bigger? You find Filipinos in all parts of the world....
I have had Korean students and they were madly in love with our country even with the way they were taught English they said it was simple and easy to understand. 😊
Oppa Joon big salute to your content....We as Filipinos were colonized by the Americans....They taught us to speak English which we inherited and learned until now.....Our grammars are not that perfect but we do understand and speak from the heart....
English is our 2nd language and it is the medium of instruction in schools here in the Philippines and also english is used in business transactions. Thats why we need to learn english well.
If I'm to be asked the same question, me and my kids speaks English everyday, every now and then. We watch movies in English and now we watch Kdrama with an English captions in it. My daughter even learned to read Korean letters and alphabet. That made me proud of her. 😊
Hello! New subscriber here from Japan. 🇯🇵 English used to be the classroom language from Elementary, High School and Colleges. This is one reason how Filipinos acquired the speaking ability in English. ☺️
Just digging deeper into history. America's priority as soon as they colonized the Philippines is education over 100 years ago. It just stayed even after many years.
Yes going back to history , our first teachers were Americans and those who had their education under these Americans could speak English fluently.Engl is taught at home already at an early age.Nowadays our kids watch cartoons which give them a good venue for learning and using the language. In school it is the medium of instruction Engl courses are part of the curriculum of the different educational levels .Lastly in all aspects of our life Engl is a very important language / tool for communication.Thank you for your comments and observations about our skill in using the Engl language. But this is not to set aside of our national language which is also given importance in our learning and using the language.
To be honest, the best way to learn english is to watch english movies.. as for conversational English, watch a Sitcom or some variety shows in the US.. To be able to pick up the accent tho, it needs more practice and more exposure.. You have to live like an american.. haha skl.. i learned by watching cartoons when i was young.
Umm I learned by watching with my baby cousin by watching some for kids cartoons 😂😂😂cuz whenever her parents are buying groceries sometimes I babysit her so I ended up like in boredom watching with her📺😂😂
i learned Americanized English when I took Call Center course on TESDA. the training was amazing. its focus is to make Filipino accent into American accent.
Filipinos speak English well because its pretty much our 2nd language. We were taught to speak it as early as 2 years old. The medium.of teaching is always in English. It doesn't hurt to learn to be bilingual, it has a lot of good uses.
Philippines was colonized by the Americans for 48 years. Thus, we, Filipinos learned how to speak English and it became our second language. From preschool to post graduate years, students are taught the English language, it's part of the schools' curriculum. Filipinos have a strong penchant for reading English books and watching Hollywood movies. Even at home, parents would teach and encourage their children to speak English.
Even though your subject is FILIPINO but our prof. Discussed and explained it in english and whut. Hahhaha but still not perfect grammar but they can understand and communicate which is important. I can speak bisaya, and taglish.
because in Philippines usually since elementary we have already English subject so if some can't talk fluent but can understand and mostly mix language English, Spanish,and many more.,
I lived in a remote area when I was a kid where there is no access to tv and even electricity but thru my aunt I was introduce to RNB music such as Beyonce and Usher, Neyo and whenever I listen to their songs I observe the accent and how the words were pronounced. 😆 Just sharing...
Oppaaaa, it's a big advantage if we can speak English, knowing that, it is very useful such as applying a job. Communicating with foreign people. And aside from that, I used to be a call center agent so I must say that it is big help for us Filipino.
Yah we can say that in the Philippines almost everything were written in English..We may have difficulties speaking like a pro or native but everyone even children can understand and communicate in English..when you enter school like Preschool/Kindergarten English is part of the curriculum 😁..And you'll see every chips and snacks, candies that are being sold in provinces are written in English
Yes your right ...English is our Second Language....we usually used English language everyday .....When we Apply for the job.... because speaking English Is the easiest way to communicate to others☺️
Filipinos are introduced to the english language early on like in nursery or kindergarten. We have an English subject in our school curriculum, which includes spelling to grammar. What we learn is reinforced coz we speak in english as well in school and the medium of instruction is also in english. So from kindergarten to post graduate studies, we learn and communicate (verbal or writtsn) in English. Its just in the past few years where the local dialect is used in school but still together with the english and Filipino languages.
Actually there is a lot of mixed English and Spanish words in our vocabulary and there are a lot of dialects found here, many of us are trilinguals (the dialect we use, English, and Filipino)
We learned to speak English at very young age because major subjects are mostly in English language. Also, it is in the law that Filipino and English should be the language in teaching us.
English is our secondary language. In elementary school, most of the subjects are taught in English only subjects which are History (Araling Panlipunan), Filipino, and Values are taught in Tagalog. In high school, only Filipino subject uses Tagalog base language and the rest is English. And I must say that in corporate world, English is a must! Oppa Joon, are living here in the Philippines?
my uncle told me that americans brought english teachers here in the philippines to teach english to filipinos, and add english subjects to the curriculum
Oppa joon... I also learned my english from my teachers since grade one and thank God we are a free country wherein we accept diff. nationalities with different languages.
English is the form of teaching in the Philippines. Tagalog our mother tongue we always talk every single minute. Filipinos doesn't like to waste time. It was taught by our elders not to waste anything: time, food, money, specially your education. It was ingrane to every Filipinos. 😊👍
American Alphabet - A B C D .... Filipino Alphabet - A BA KA DA .... Almost the same. Rather than other Asian Country, the stroke of Alphabet was different. 감사합니다 .☺️
I teach English and Tagalog, and it's always fulfilling for me to get new foreign students acquire their 2nd language from zero up to at least conversational level.
We understand english since the day were born haha our parents talked to us in english. When we start to study in preschool, were already taught in english. We only have 1 filipino subject and we can only speak tagalog but the rest of the subjects were in english. During our elementary years we are oblige to speak in english at school or else well be fine for single penny. Huhu
Philippines is an archipelago so we have thousands of languages across the country. In Visaya alone there are lots of variations of bisaya. We're multilingual because first we have our mother tongue like for me i speak waray, we also speak tagalog as our national language plus English as our secondary language.
as a filipino who speaks english when im talking to myself i think im pretty good at it but when i speak english to other people i stutter and start having a british accent and when im speaking english to myself i will sometimes transition to filipino/tagalog and i will have a english accent while speaking tagalog
There are parents who already start speaking to their babies in English. "No, don't do that." "That's bad." "That's dirty." My mom began teaching me English when I was 2-3 years old and she already made me attend school(with my brother who was 4 y/o) at the age of 3 since no one would look after me at home and both parents had to go to work. I can recall our teachers teaching us how to write A,B,C rather than just drawing and coloring. While my grades in English are good, the downside was I wasn't very good in Tagalog related subjects. In first grade, we were taught cursive writing and were required to use it. If I remember correctly, our English subject was subdivided into three which were Phonetics, Reading, and one other that I have forgotten. From 4th-6th grade, we had a separate Reading and English subject. I don't know how different it is with the curriculum now since that was from the late 1990s-2007. In high school, we were required to speak in Tagalog or English. Anyone who spoke in our local dialect would be fined. 🤣
The Philippine alphabet is easy to learn,than Korean..한국말 is not easy to learn,Korean has 21 vowels and 19 consonants!!Im aKorean Language instructor,korean Language is very interesting too!!감사함니다!!
As a 11 years old Filipina that teaching my friends,cousin and homeless kids to speak English is not hard at all and im also taeching Tagalog online like friend from other country who is interesting to learn our language For me Filipino are really good at English but the problem is the grammar and spelling
true.. we learned english since we were kids that's why mostly filipinos could speak english.. we used it at school and everywhere as our medium of instructions.
