Asking a question to the misses

[stevewool]

I know I have problems trying to pronounce places here in the Philippines and when I ask Ems where so and so is and I have tried to say it as it is written  well it goes like this, Where is Pandacan Ems, ‘ where is where’ Pandacan , ‘ you mean PANDACAN ‘  yes that is what I said , ‘  it’s in Manila ‘ , yes I know that but where , ‘ it’s in MANILA’ then the lips show me some sort of direction, is everywhere over here pronounce by having to raise the voice to say it .

Yes it would have been easier to look on google myself.

[graham59]

I still don't think my Mrs knows my first name.... and we've been a couple for 8 years now.  

[bastonjock]

6 hours ago, stevewool said:

I know I have problems trying to pronounce places here in the Philippines and when I ask Ems where so and so is and I have tried to say it as it is written  well it goes like this, Where is Pandacan Ems, ‘ where is where’ Pandacan , ‘ you mean PANDACAN ‘  yes that is what I said , ‘  it’s in Manila ‘ , yes I know that but where , ‘ it’s in MANILA’ then the lips show me some sort of direction, is everywhere over here pronounce by having to raise the voice to say it .

Yes it would have been easier to look on google myself.

You think you have problems, my gf has to deal with my glaswegian accent 

Calling her Jimmy does not have the same effect over here 

[Mike J]

Married for 14 years and we still occasionally have to spell a word that the other does not understand.  My wife blames it on my hearing and I blame it on her accent.

[Gary D]

What I don't get is they seem to put the accents in different places.

[stevewool]

4 hours ago, bastonjock said:

You think you have problems, my gf has to deal with my glaswegian accent 

Calling her Jimmy does not have the same effect over here 

Have you tried calling her Jenny !

[Mick]

Same here, there is a village close to here called Karangalan..... But you have to shout the middle bit.... KaRANgalan or she does not understand... Same with the taxi drivers.... 

[Marvin Boggs]

Oh this sounds so familiar Steve.  First thing I learned here is that our syllable emphasis is different.  We would say PandaCAN, but she would say PanDACan.  Second thing is, the voice level goes up upon any agitation.  So yeah it sounds like she is angry and yelling at me, when in fact she is just agitated.  Then of course, there is geography and history. 

Where is that city?  - "Over there", or "in Manila.  But where exactly?  "I DONT KNOW"

How did such-and-so get its name? - "Why you want to know so many things?"  I'm just curious.... "DRINK YOUR COFFEE"

Where is the next turn? - "Farther more"  Farther where?  "There, THERE"

[JDDavao II]

My wife and I have a little thing we do where I pronounce bangus as "bang-us" and she corrects me to "ban~goos!" Then it's "Bang-us from Batang-us!" And she shakes her head.

She has excellent English skills and even understands Western comedy and sarcasm but since we've lived here, and she's spoken native almost exclusively, she's become harder to understand. She pronounces some English words like they were Filipino. It wreaks hell with the deaf guy who is used to her American English.