Clermont Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 I agree with all the posts, at a age you have trouble remembering what day of the week it is, not much sense trying to learn a new language. I have an app on my phone that translate Tagalog to English and vise versa, not too bad in it's translation either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 Just now, Clermont said: I agree with all the posts, at a age you have trouble remembering what day of the week it is, not much sense trying to learn a new language. I have an app on my phone that translate Tagalog to English and vise versa, not too bad in it's translation either. Dang Clermont, it's bad enough the Aussie English gets me tongue tied. However, over the years I have studied and learn to appreciate your colorful slang. Good on ya mate! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clermont Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 No Jake, it ain't Aussie lingo, its bloody Pommy gargon. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogo51 Posted November 16, 2017 Posted November 16, 2017 I lived in Thailand for 8 years and was no hope of learning that language, other than a couple of dozen words. I got nye there and I am sure I will get bye here. My wife speaks excellent English and looks after the communication division in the household. I will gradually pick up a little here and there, just to get me bye. I have met a few Filipinos whom I meet from time to time socially and we communicate in English, no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonjack2847 Posted November 17, 2017 Posted November 17, 2017 I was in court in Dalaguete and a lawyer was speaking Tagolog,the judge told him to speak English or Visayan as she could not understand Tagolog.The Visayan in Dalaguete is different from the Visayan in Argao (20km away)so learning a language here is very difficult.I have tried to speak some Visayan here in Dumaguete but again it is slightly different so I gave up. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonjack2847 Posted November 17, 2017 Posted November 17, 2017 13 hours ago, JDDavao said: Hmmm...Kare Kare, Bistek, Kaldereta, Longganisa, Afritata, San Miguel. Hey, I'm fluent! Fluent? you actually have a masters degree well done haha 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hk blues Posted November 17, 2017 Posted November 17, 2017 (edited) I have no interest in learning any of the languages/dialects here. Everyone who i have to communicate with can get by in English - that's one of the reasons I came here. If they can't, and if i could speak some of the local language, the level we'd all be at wouldn't make for an interesting discussion anyway IMO. Anyhow, why learn a language where half of the sentence is in one language, and the other half in another! Actually, based on that, I'm half-fluent already! It's true that English and Tagalog are the two designated languages here, but I often get into debate over the question of people stating they are native English speakers - i don't believe they meet the definition but I may be wrong. It's not really that unusual to have a myriad of languages spoken in a country thus making English the common language - India is another example. Edited November 17, 2017 by hk blues Addition 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mogo51 Posted November 17, 2017 Posted November 17, 2017 4 hours ago, Clermont said: I agree with all the posts, at a age you have trouble remembering what day of the week it is, not much sense trying to learn a new language. I have an app on my phone that translate Tagalog to English and vise versa, not too bad in it's translation either. Could not agree more mate, too old. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dave Hounddriver Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Posted November 17, 2017 22 hours ago, bows00 said: I made up my mind that I do NOT ever want to be in that predicament. You seem to have stirred up a few people with your suggestion that it is lazy not to learn the native language. I have suggested to you that there are 2 official languages here, and a search on Google shows me that: "Hawai'i is also the only American state to have two official languages, Hawaiian and English." So I have to ask you if you have learned Hawaiian? I ask because your profile says that is where you live now. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post davewe Posted November 17, 2017 Popular Post Posted November 17, 2017 There's a big difference between what many of would like to do and what we can or will end up doing. I would like to learn enough Visayan to get by. But as a student growing up (and a good student) foreign language was always my worst subject. Studied Hebrew for years; if I'm lucky I remember 5 words. Studied Spanish for 4 years and forgot most of it; that is until I moved here. Since so much of Philippines language is based on Spanish I understand a lot more than I thought I would and am constantly telling my wife "that word's Spanish." So I can follow bits and pieces of conversations based more on my Spanish than my knowledge of Visayan. And of course many Filipinos want to speak English with you. I take a walk in the morning and passers by say "good morning." I respond with "Maayong Buntag." 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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