The senate is currently contemplating to reinstate Español back in schools from elementary to college, which will make us Filipinos trilingual in the near future. Viva Los Filipinos, Hispanidad.

As of 2022, there are 460,000 Filipinos who speak Spanish. Let's reach one million speakers by year 2030.😊😊😊

Los filipinos no pueden escapar de su herencia hispana. Sólo miren sus apellidos, su toponimia, su religión, su comida (el adobo, mmmm). Los filipinos son también nuestros hermanos hispanos. Un fuerte abrazo fraternal!

Excelente iniciativa Rafael y todo el equipo de Los Filipinos. El español debe ser recuperado en Filipinas, es parte de la esencia de la cultura filipina, por algo su declaración de independencia, su himno, gran parte de su toponimia, entre otras cosas, han sido en español (como gran parte del vocabulario de sus idiomas regionales). Por eso no es extraña la familiaridad cultural que sentimos hispanoamericanos y filipinos, tenemos una raíz hispánica, la cual al unirse con la raíz nativa (y africana en el caso de gran parte de Hispanoamérica) dio como resultado lo que somos hoy en día. Saludos desde la ciudad de Neiva, al sur de Colombia, y cuenten desde acá con un seguidor, con una persona que apoya su causa, que está a la orden en lo que pueda aportar y que espera algún día poder visitar Filipinas. Sobra decir que en Colombia siempre bienvenidos cuando quieran venir.

Subscribed and turned on notifications. Thank you for your advocacy. We're not strange hispanophiles, just people who feel like our identity is tied to the Spanish language and fills a cultural void that English never really can. Long live Spanish language in the Philippines.

Soy uno de los Filipinos que hasta ahora habla español aún. Es importante que enseneñemos a la juventud de Filipinas la historia compartida entre España y Filipinas. No debemos olvidar las contribuciones que España nos había dado especialmente en su idioma. Vamos a esperar el regreso de Castellano a nuestras islas.

So happy to stumble into this channel. My maternal grandmother spoke fluent Spanish and both my parents spoke Spanish. Unfortunately, English was the medium of instruction when I attended school and never learned Spanish. Hopefully, this channel will foster my interest in the Spanish language. Muchas gracias!

Yes Sir, we must also preserve the Spanish language in us Filipinos. Almost 50 percent of our Filipino words came from the Spanish language . I am learning just after I retire from work. Thank for giving the encouragement .. I am more inclined to form my learning strategy to further my knowledge in Spanish language and later speak well of the language and later communicate and also to use it in casual conversation. God bless you !

¡Oye Amigo! Quiero aprender más. Este video es muy interesante. Muchas Gracias 💪

Excelentes los videos y la idea de crear un medio donde el idioma español perdure en la querida Filipinas. Desde España saludos a Raymundo y Rafael, junto a todo el equipo que hacen los videos. Gracias

One of the reason is Spanish language is included in our curriculum up to the 80's. Gracias 😁

I had Spanish subjects when I was in college and I became relatively fluent in writing and speaking at that time. After some few years I forgot about the language since I do not use it on my day to day activities. Then in 2010 when i was working in a BPO , it happened that our bosses and stakeholders are based in Spain . And although they do speak English, I find it practical to learn again the language thus, I enrolled at Instituto De Cervantes ( IC ) in Manila. It was quite a surprise for me that the method of teaching in IC is different from what i used to when I was in college . Apparently, it became a challenge for me. I did complete my 6-month ( ?? ) course and my speaking skill then is passable . However, my writing skill is another story. Over the years, I really wanted to be fluent with the Spanish language until this time. I think it all boils down with my memory about my bisabuela who I grew up with. She is a spanish mestiza and I would be hearing some few spanish words or sentences from her from time to time. I hope that with this group , i would be able to ignite the fire of passion within me to learn again the language but this time , it will be for keeps.

My grandma speaks and read latin from the bible and shes a local province town girl all her life until death. She didnt even finish highschool. Funny really can even recite oracion at 3am and 6pm. Must be in our long bloodline my grandmother side is filipino spanish one of the first family in our quiet eerie town

Acabo de descubrir este canal y estoy muy contento y conmovido. Es realmente emocionante ver que hay gente que se siente orgullosa de hablar español en Filipinas, y también comprobar en los comentarios de los distintos vídeos que hablantes nativos de español de todo el mundo, y especialmente de Hispanoamérica, sienten una total cercanía con los filipinos, con los que compartimos este precioso idioma. Por favor, seguid con este importante trabajo de dar a conocer el español hablado en Filipinas. Ojalá haya mucho apoyo de distintos organismos oficiales de muchos países para promover el estudio del español en esa preciosa tierra. Un abrazo muy fuerte desde España

Filipinas también forma parte de la Gran Familia Hispana❤️💛❤

Spanish was a subject in my college years (1968-1972). I remember distinctly our teacher Don Pedro Hidalgo of Naga City. However those years were likewise the radicalization years of the Filipino youths many of whom joined the leftist movement, the leftist were opposed to the spanish language. Hence we had to converse in our native dialect or in tagalog. The spanish language faded away but for a few. I myself lost the spanish as I ended up conversing more in the dialect, tagalog and english which supplanted spanish. There were a lot of american peace corp volunteers that taught english and american english became a primary classroom subject instead of spanish. Today seldom do I hear spanish spoken. I can only wish I could have preserved the spanish language I learned.

I still have a copy of my original birth and baptismal certificate written in Spanish.

Is this the only video you have done so far? Looking forward to future vids. Thanks for clarifying that the Americans did not establish the educational system first, cuz generally that is what is presented from others., your informative historical research says otherwise. Thanks for sharing! Viva Filipinas! ❤ Be proud of our roots😊

One doesnt need to be an apologist to the Spanish Empire but we cannot escape the fact that the borders they claimed is the seed that became our people and national identity. Because of the misinformation that has been ingrained by the Americans and later Filipino Nationalists in the way we see our history. Our old cook, born 1917, used to tell us that she never met anybody in Manila, until the war, that didnt understand Spanish. Those who went to school, especially the colleges, could converse and were fluent. She said all the documents you needed to fill, signs, notices etc were in Spanish and some English. Quite different from the 1927 US Congressional report. I remember being shocked to learn that my great-grandparents and up to three generations above that, spoke Spanish as a first language. (We do not have a drop of Spanish blood.) The switch back to Tagalog happened as compliance to the ideals of the Commonwealth Constitution for the formation of a National language based on a native one. The last of my relatives who spoke Spanish as a first language has passed away this century. My cousins who are either fluent or can understand, rarely use it and their children have no comprehension of it. It is a shame because for most Filipino students that study historical records of the Islands, they are reliant on translations in to English first. We have researched our family history and geneology over 200yrs in Lipa, Batangas. All parish and town records are in Spanish. My cousin leading the research has become competent in the language because of this.

Hasta Pronto Amigo

Back the spanish language of philippines🇵🇭

soy filipino y nací en las filipinas pero ingles es mi idioma maternal. desde era niño me costaba demasiado el tagalo pero cuando me imploré a estudiar el español hace 2 años lo encontré como fácil y también y me puse a dedicarme al idioma y entender las obras de nuestros antepasados desde así

Even when Spanish was mandatory in college it wasn't geared towards speaking Spanish conversationally but towards understanding the Philippine literature in Spanish

Que buen video. Muchas gracias por hacerlo, y por compartirlo. Es un acto de justicia recuperar el español en Filipinas. Un abrazo, amigos.

One of my former co-workers was Filipino from Cebu. He told me that in his language all the numbers were the same as in Spanish. I used to see a lot of Spanish names listed in the obituaries in the newspaper and they were nearly all Filipinos and not people from Latin America.

My father and some of his cousins who looks spanish speak spanish. I heard them.They're all gone. In fact my Fe de Bautismo is in spanish.

Felicitaciones Rafael y equipo por el excelente vídeo que nos presentan. Hay muchos datos históricos que no son conocidos y ustedes los aclaran. Existen muchos prejuicios sobre el periodo español en Filipinas que creo fueron difundidos con un interés político, engañando intencionalmente al pueblo filipino para que aceptara el sometimiento a los invasores estadounidenses. El idioma español-filipino es parte del patrimonio cultural de ese hermoso país y debe ser preservado. Saludos desde Chile.

Enhorabuena, muy buena iniciativa

Me enorgullece aún más saber esto, nunca he conocido esas palabras pronunciadas por mi abuela porque sólo pensaba que eran partes de su dialecto nativo en la provincia, poco sabía que era español después de todo.

Hi. I would like to introduce myself to the makers of these videos about Spanish and Spanish-speakers in the Philippines. I am a Spanish, French, and ESL teacher who learned Spanish and French in college. I am currently self-teaching myself Italian with the help of the Lord Jesus. I think that your channel and your goal to keep Spanish alive in the Philippines is pretty cool. I do know someone who is Filipino living in the Philippines. I'm trying to learn from your videos, but would love to speak with you sometime by voice as well.

Felicitaciones por el Canal, saludos desde Bogotá, Colombia

Just as we discuss things in English, educated Filipinos discussed things in Spanish. If you were educated during the Spanish period, you spoke Spanish. There was no other medium of instruction. English only came with the Americans. Filipino/Tagalog was instituted in the 1960s. That being said, "3rd world" countries at this time were majority illiterate from Latin America, colonial Asia, to sub saharan Africa. Meaning that they were not formally educated in schools. This makes sense as these places were still mostly agrarian. It is likely that over 20% of the people in the Philippines during the Spanish period had formal schooling, they would all be Spanish speakers. A few more may have learned it informally on their own, or on the job as servants, soldiers, businessmen, etc.

The US was the one who introduced the PUBLIC school system in the Philippines. On the other hand, Spain introduced the formal PRIVATE education system in the Philippines through the Roman Catholic Church.

If the country embraced it's Hispanic identity more then we Chavacanos here in the south would actually feel more part of the nation than feeling like we're some abhorrent Spaniard lovers who reject the use of Tagalog as the national language.

Soy Filipino Americano, estudió español. Adelante!

Good luck to learn spanish Greetings from Spain ❤

te apoyo. Saludos desde Republica Dominicana

Enhorabuena por la iniciativa. Espero y deseo que no se politice y que se centre únicamente en conservar aquello que nos une y que nunca debió de perderse. Hay algún vídeo con muestras del español hablado en Filipinas antes de 1945. Soy un español con mucho interés en la historia de Filipinas. Si alguien necesita algún material para practicar el español, puedo enviarle alguna cosa. ¡Mucho ánimo con la iniciativa!

Pos sí, entiendo Chavacano pero a veces es muy confundido ... I also like Chavacano music but I myself am a "Angeleno" (Los Angeles born) I lived much of my life on the US Mexican border so I'm fairly fluent in Spanish. I understand Chabacano but it's a little difficult sometimes.

i still need to watch gomburza the movie

True my grandparents (abuelos) spoke spanish

Buena suerte en su esfuerzo.

my grandmother was born in the Philippines and could speak a little spanish though she left there when she was 4 years old.

Según el Instituto Cervantes, en su informe de 2023 referido al idioma español, hubo 4471 RESIDENTES DE ESPAÑA en Filipinas en 2022, osea los "únicos" nativos. Además existen 461 689 personas que saben español; incluyendo a los hablantes de chabacano, que se asume tienen competencia limitada en español (según los datos de la Oficina Estadística de Filipinas de 2010). Estas cifras no incluyen a los 1,7 millones de filipinos que cursaron estudios universitarios antes de 1986, cuando era obligatorio aprender español.

Lleváis el Ilustre nombre del rey Felipe II, el prudente ¡Ánimo Filipinos!

Muy buen video , iniciativas como la vuestra deberían de verse desde el gobierno de España. Mucho ánimo.

I want to learn more spanish language!

Dude reminds me of Gus Abelgas. Kudos!

For the most part pinoys are hispanic in culture despite our lack of universal spanish proficiency. Our names, religion and traditions are proofs of this even with their very strong asian influences and background. Nothing wrong or new about this. Most of us instinctively know this despite what may seem as ambivilence and ignorance to outsiders. We know who we are.

‘Creole’ mostly;the formal Spanish language’s basic education in our case, we had in the 70’s y btw our great grandparents had the forced immersion then…then the American English influence took over y so on

To bring back Spanish as a spoken language in the Philippines, there must be an economic-driven reform to be done first by amending the 1987 Constitution permitting Spanish and Latin American corporations and individuals (with 100% equity) to come into the country without too many restrictions and from there, a favorable environment towards speaking Spanish in certain areas in our country would flourish. Thereafter, Spanish should be reinstated in the Philippine basic and higher education, not just as a standalone subject, but also as an alternative medium of instruction to English and Tagalog. Mass media companies should be encouraged to use Spanish for their content like news and current affairs and telenovelas. Public signages need to be changed to accommodate Spanish, especially airport and seaport signage. All government agencies (national and local) should encourage all civil servants to use Spanish in official businesses.

If you haven't already, start a patreon that offers Spanish (PH) lessons, along side this YT channel that would really preserve and promote Spanish (PH).

good video. and you need bigger shirt mi amigo.

I can speak Spanish to a certain extent and can read it in well and I believe I can speak it like a native speaker after a month's direct exposure in a Spanish speaking country. Still, I don't believe teaching and learning Spanish should be compulsory in the Philippines. I do believe, however, that teaching a second foreign language, after English, is compulsory starting from high school. Spanish has to be one option for this second foreign language but NOT the only option. At top universities like UP and Ateneo they teach Bahasa Indonesia, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and even Arabic, in addition to Spanish, as second foreign language options. Being situated in Asia, Filipinos can't just be limited to Spanish. Of course, there's no stopping individuals from learning as many foreign languages as they want (I also speak French, on the same level as my Spanish). Learning languages (including computer language, hehehe), even just for the love of it, must be encouraged and given incentives. Also, for those majoring in history, Spanish must be compulsory, to acquire at least a reading knowledge of it, as part of the history curriculum, not as a second language option. This is to enable students to study historical and current Spanish-language documents pertaining to the Philippines.

Dice un dicho: un ingles se vanagloria de lo que bien hizo un hispano, y un hispano es culpado de lo que mal hizo un inglés.

Our family spoke Spanish at home until Ferdinand Marcos ordered Spanish subjects to be dropped from the curriculum.

It was padre Burgos, _not_ fray Burgos. He was not a fraile. The frailes were Spanish priests who belonged to a monastic order and lived in communities (Dominicans, Recollects, Franciscans, Agustinians). The Jesuits were also a religious order but they were styled "padres" --- they were missionaries and did not own haciendas, rather they specialized in teaching and the sciences (Ateneo Municipal, padre Faura of the meteorological service, etc.). Padre Burgos, Zamora, Gómez were _secular_ priests, meaning that they were under the authority of the Archbishopric of Manila. These were the native and mestizo priests whom the Spanish friars resolutely kept out of becoming parish priests of the most important and wealthiest parishes, which they monopolized. The friar orders did not recognize the authority over them of the Archbishop of Manila and his bishops. This power conflict within the Catholic Church was not clarified in our history classes. GomBurZa were implicated by the friar orders in the Cavite uprising precisely because the secularization movement of the parishes was winning ground and threatening the power of the Dominicans, Augustinians, Recollects and Franciscan orders.

Paulino Alcantara FC Barcelona. My Mom in Law speaks Chavacano.

Some people back home still think that Spanish is a language exclusive only to the elite, white and mestizo. 🥴😂 I guess there should be education or info drive on this to break this misconception. I really don’t know where this Filipino obsession on ‘race or lahi’ is coming from. The fixation is almost like here in the states. 🙄 But far from the truth lol. Most of our Hispanic patients are of indigenous (indio) racial origin from Central/South America. Some can still speak their indigenous languages and that’s kindda cool. I personally think that Spanish is just like another Filipino language that has to be embraced and promoted. Until misconceptions and stereotypes are being addressed, it would be challenging to promote this idea down to the grass roots. I know of a heritage speaker who would only speak Spanish at home because of that. This family lives in Northern Mindanao.

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Conocen este tema de Tam Tam Go (banda española de los 90 creo)? Cruzando el río: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sNxghJNenrrVdIk.html

Dapat nde nawala yung spanish na salita satin, i mean dapat tinuturo dapat sa school yung Spanish maliban sa English, tsaka dapat may sariling letters din , i mean ginagamit din natin yun alibata words, qng ang Japan at korea may sarili silang words dapat yung pinas sana nde nawala yun😢

Dapat ibalik ang wikang Español sa escuela.

if you are a real spanish speaker of the filipino variety, then you need to upload videos show samples of your accent, and do some comparations about the diferences and similarities with other spanish varieties

King ( of spain)

Instead of having Filipino (Tagalog) as our national language can we have Spanish? Because we Visayan speakers are prone to bully by Tagalog speakers especially when our Tagalog is not as good as theirs that's why we prefer to use English instead.

You should try to give a few facts of the Filipino Spanish dialect

And they say they’re not hispanic or latino

Phillipines, it just the people's who's .lives. in the islands of. King phillipe - !!!

On my channel I have a lot of music in Spanish if you want to listen ..

Very difficult to recover now that generations after 1930 had not used castilian Spanish in most parts of the country. Tagalog is now the lingua franca, thanks to the Phil government imposing its usage from all sectors...schools, offices, businesses, etc. Feb. 21, 2024 today.

Let's learn the language of our colonial master who treated us badly and didn't consider "Indios" as human 🙄 that's great 👍

That is when they would be labeled Latino despite being in Asia hey if Mexico for example was called Latino tho the ancestors where. Not Spanish speakers or blood

Spain erased the Filipino language, then the American eradicated the Spanish language and forced the English language. Then Japan tried but failed. What happened now? Well, today they have English, Spanish, tagalog mixed. Everybody is happy.

Akibat di jajah negara negara maju terlalu lama ,negara lemah seperti Indonesia ,philipina dan negara kebanyakan dari Amerika latin melupapan jati dirinya dari bahasa budaya ,percaya dirinya dan lain lain ,itu fakta dan mereka sulit berkembang kerena mengikuti arahan aturan kelompok barata yg tidak disadarinya ,karena sistem sorf fower propanda media electronik dan mudah dipercaya masyarakat yg minim pengetahuan .Jadi tergantung keberanian pemimpin negara untuk berani dgn cerdas mengubah polapikirnya dan berani percaya mengambil keputusan ,seperti presiden Jokowi mengubah segalanya tidak ketergantungan negara asing terkecuali saling menguntungkan .,indefenden itu sangat penting cinta negri sendiri ,meski harus hubungan dgn neragara luar dgn baik selama tidak merugikan negara sendiri.

CHAVACANO is almost 100% Spanish.

No thanks.

This is not true. During colonial Spanish only the privileged, landed and children of Spanish are taught Castillian the rest of Filipinos could understand but could hardly conversed in Castillian language. Remember that during the spanish time there is no public school but all private schools are ran by priests and only those i mentioned above could afford to send their kids to school. Because Filipinos can’t speak Spanish they injected it in our dialects and it became creolic dialect like the chavacanos. The reason why Filipinos now can understand and speak English because when the Americans came to the Philippines they found out that majority of Filipinos are not educated meaning no read no write. They put public schools where English are taught. Castillian are the language of the elite in the Philippines back then now it is Chinese or English.

Do not subscribe here because this channel is pro colonialism! We Filipinos fought hard for our independence since before. Our real identity as warriors and great noble people in maritime asia long before we were colonized and destroyed will not be forgotten! We respect our ancestors. No to Spanish language and colonial mindset. We filipinos love our hundred of native languages and dialects hence we must protect for the next generation.

Cory was the one who changed the Spanish language to be thought in schools if Marcos was still on power that time we should be bilingual today 😢

Some trying hard to claim as hispanics, but global census denied that, if only spain never forbids the Indios which are majoeity of the population to learn spanish, Filipinos in majority is a spanish speaker now, but spain is so stingy, they forbid the majority especially Indios to learn spanish and as a result, we end up cannot speak and understand spanish, but americans never restrict us to learn english so majority learn can speak an understand english according to our professor. Some try hard to claim as hispanics, but we can't relate to spain, I'm a Filipino myself and I can relate to Indonesia and Malaysia and the SEA more than spain which are too foreign for me. I understand if you have spanish blood so you have spanish heritage but Philippines in general has no spanish heritage but native and our precolonial culture still survive and spain fail to totally destroy our culture.

filipinos trying to revive a language that doesnt originate grom our country / was brung by colonizers is crazy 💀

It is good you are speaking spanish But Filipinos are majority Austronesian and we should be more Indio than mestizo-like We should only study spanish for the mark of history, and for OFW purposes, not for our own hispanizing ourselves Bonus; we should also learn Bahasa, so the rest of Maphilindo can understand us, also as one Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) Family

So why is the channel deleting my fact check comment? Alam na

Ngaun puro geng geng na mga salita ng mga Noypi 😂 Puro trashtalk ka pa karamihan. 😂😂