Truly, speaking in English here in PH gives you the advantage from those who aren't fluent. However on the other side people who can also speak deep tagalog words gives you the advantage from normal tagalog speakers too. Sometimes we switch languages when speaking because usually we cannot think of the exact translation of the words quickly.

Big respect for those who speak deep filipino language, ako lang yata ang na a-amaze kapag may nadinig akong nag sasalita ng malalim na pilipino.

You should never forget your own language. This is not just for Filipinos but for all the people in the world. 💚

As a filipino teaching English in Vietnam sobrng nkaka proud lng how Vietnamese look up to us Filipino teachers. they are impress how good we are in speaking in english. We may not be native english speakers but we gained respect here.

Fun fact a lot of Filipinos are multilingual, we can speak more than 2 languages. Myself for example I can speak 4 languages like English, Tagalog, Thai and Italian, also I can speak 2 native dialects like Kapampangan and Ilocano.

Saw a lot of comments here saying that they are speaking a "dialect" when in fact it should be "language." People are still very confused about this topic. Ilokano, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bikolano, Hiligaynon, Waray-waray, Cebuano/Bisaya, Maranao, Chavacano, etc. are major *LANGUAGES* (we have more than 175 languages guys). Take note that each of these languages have their own sets of *DIALECTS*. My mother tongue, Kinaray-a, have a lot of its own dialects as well that differs almost from town to town and within towns itself to the point that you will almost not understand another Kinaray-a speaker from another area. I can speak Filipino/Tagalog, English, Kinaray-a, Hiligaynon, and Bisaya (only tried speaking Cebuano Bisaya from Cebu and the Northern Mindanao Bisaya from Cagayan de Oro. These are some of the dialects of Bisaya).

This video made me laugh 😂. I am a Filipino myself and I can relate to them. Even though I’m working in the UK with English people I can’t deny the fact that sometimes I talk to them accidentally with small Tagalog not only Tagalog but also Bisaya so 3 laguages. Haha Thanks for making this video. One follower here.

Loved your video & thank you for sharing. I, myself is a Filipino but I can express & communicate better in English. Practice makes perfect "mga tao" (people). GOD BLESS!

I speak 4 languages: English, Filipino, Spanish and my native language: Bisaya. I speak daily, English and Bisaya. True. Switching from one language to another is somewhat confusing👌😁.

To gain more perspective, English Language is being taught from kindergarten to college and it is also being use as a medium of instruction for more field of disciplines or subject areas. I would say that most literate Filipino people have the capacity to comprehend English however a lot of Filipinos are not fluent especially in spoken English. When I was studying I'd experience having classmates who are very intelligent and very well verse when in it comes to written English and can even ace an English standardized test however they are weak in spoken English. I think speaking English would really require a lot of training and practice so that you can really be very fluent. To my advantage I was taught to speak English at a very young age that's why I don't see spoken English as challenge however my weakness is written English, I'm not very keen with grammar rules. So I would say that if you are an educated Filipino your capacity and skills in both written and spoken English really varies depend on how much you trained yourself in both aspects.

In Linguistics, Taglish is code switching. It happens when the language user conveniently switches from his first learned language (Tagalog) to the second learned language (English) to express himself. Such has long been the case for many Filipinos confront ed with the challenge usually in informal situations. In the academic setting, code switching is discouraged. Students are expected to gain eloquence of expression, both when speaking and writing. This is done to prepare them for the workplace.

I think the question about fifa is difficult to explain since most of Filipinos are not familiar with it so interviewees got stuttered and somewhat nervous... but in my opinion, fluent Filipinos who can speak english is just around 30% . Younger generations are the majority that are fluent in english.

I guess it's much better if they had interviewed also some people from the different cities or provinces in the country to see the differences in terms of how they would speak in English. I'd say that people living in Baguio City and Benguet are really good at speaking the English language because we don't normally use Filipino (Tagalog). And most of us only learn this at school not at home.

As a filipino, watching english movies and reading english subtitles helped me a lot in learning the english language.

Well English is a universal language and Filipinos are everywhere.🌎what makes me proud of being a Filipino is that we can comprehend (in Eng.)wherever we go.We may not speak perfect English but at least we know the language.🤗 Tagalog is still our own.🇵🇭English is our 2nd language.😊 watching from🇮🇹.God bless u guys.

I really appreciate you two the way you give full attention to what you watch and hear . I surmise you were good listeners to your teachers and lectures.

I speak 4 languages and 1 dialect. - English, Filipino, and Spanish in school - Cebuano (Visaya Dialect in Northern Mindanao) and Taglish at home or for communication - Chinese and English in reading and writing novels Ps: it's pretty hard to calculate the percentage of Filipinos speaking English and Tagalog if the survey only focuses in areas like Metro Manila. 🤔 I guess you'd be amazed on how the rest of the Filipino population in other areas of the Philippines speak by switching multiple languages at once while talking.

As a filipino most of us aren't good when it comes to a perfect grammar but i think despite of that we can still express (all of us filipino's) and tell them what we really want to say

I work online and all employees are from all over the US and all over the Philippines. We have 8 major dialects and although we’re Filipinos, we may not understand each other but we only speak Taglish as our main communication in our Philippines online meet. but there are days that our online meeting is like a zoo 😄. I’m just glad I speak and understand 2 of the major dialects and Taglish

My parents has 2 different dialects and to be able to get the message across they spoke in English to each other oçassionally. We, the children, grew up in both English & Filipino languaes since babyvood. The introduction of 2languages spontaneously made us habitual Taglish speakers. I also speak Swenglish to my Swedish Children when I speak fast.

I love Filipino language,,, (Filipino major here) MAHALIN ANG SARILING WIKA

I remembered that way back in the 70's, we were only allowed to speak English in school and we were required to pay .25 centavos for every Filipino word spoken. All subjects were taught in English except Filipino. I think majority of Filipinos would be able to speak fluent Filipino language. I have never really encountered people from the masses speaking taglish. Those speaking taglish would most probably be presently enrolled in school.

There is no wrong learning other language… but we have to keep our own native language, like Tagalog because we’re Filipino.

I can officially say that mostly filipino's are multilingual. I am Filipino and I speak 5 languages and I'm currently learning my 6th and 7th language and I am very proud to be Filipino! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 1st Language - "Tagalog" and I can speak dialect which is "Kapampangan" 2nd Language - English 3rd Language - Chinese Mandarin 4th Language - Japanese 5th Language - Korean and now I'm currently learning Polish & French!

WoW, Philippines! the most unique in all the world! and the shape and location of their country is like an art of God! i rili think think this country is special!

Even if our 2nd language is english when I speak to that language I stutter a lot. Because i don't use it everyday. Im confidently say that I can understand 100% english. But im not confident speaking it.

I moved from Cavite to Laguna... And I learned a lot of deep Tagalog words from my friends. Really a lot, I'm amazed how they know deep tagalog words.

That is why before I share to my Filipino students certain topics in Values Education, I see to it we unlock difficult words into English and Mother Tongue because Values Education subject in the Philippines has been taught in deep Tagalog now. Unlike 20 years ago.

Even f most of filipinos cant speak english fluently...the important is most of the filipinos can understand english... that's why most of the foreigners like to visit the Philippines because they can communicate easily...

Mostly the reason why some can not speak in english fluently, is shyness if they will speak in english with fellow filipino..but it's different if they will speak english to a foreigner. Because everybody knows filipinos are very critical with grammar, that makes other filipinos feel inferior that caused them to be shy and conscious whenever they speak english.

The exact representation of who we are when we speak right to be able to communicate to any English speaker. Then we make others proud too when we express our thoughts to others understandable and easy to adapt to what is requires & needed!

I am from Iloilo, and we speak Hiligaynon here. For us it is easier to learn English than learning Tagalog. We only speak Tagalog or Tag-lish when we talk with other Filipino from other regions or when we are outside Iloilo province and Negros Occidental. By the way in Iloilo and the nearby Antique province "Kinaray-a" is also spoken.

Being able to speak three languages, Kapampangan, Tagalog and English... It is quite useful for me with my line of work in education... Being able to automatically translate from each of these three languages, I think is of great for use when explaining to my students...

I'm proud to say that although I'm quite fluent with English, I'm also fluent with my own language and still learning more.

Previous English teachers in my elementary experiences were strict to convince students to speak English during our subject or else you would pay peso for a word you spoke that was not English. Nowadays, it is different and there are reasons for this like giving privileges to anyone to speak freely in his own ideas or English teacher handling it is not strict as he maybe not be his field of specialization. I remembered that we could compose a paragraph in English in our Grade 4 level. In my Grade 7 students, they are not able to do the same whenever I asked them to give reason to a question in a test.

As a Filipino such as myself I would agree that some of my friends do not speak as fluent but they still can speak in pure English and usually English is used on paper work, reports and not for frequent speaking...Also there are a lot of languages and ethnic groups in the Philippines meaning more languages to learn other than english and tagalog

If you go to Iloilo city and Cebu city 85 percent of their population is fluent in English cause they are Bilingual. According to the study if the person is bilingual they can easily adapt the other languages. That's why the people in the Iloilo and cebu city are fluent when it comes in English.

This is freaking funny how english language is being intertwined to other languages and became a language itself. i noticed that in indian, korean, japanese and chinese language as well> a little bit of english plus a little bit of local or national language equals new language... specially now that everybody can easily be connected because of modern technology...

english is our 2nd language so everywhere you go in the Philippines 90% will be able to understand you. in terms of accents, it really depends on how much you practice/speak english. just like learning any new language, you will sound more natural if you do it frequently.

Just so you all know, guys, that The Philippines 🇵🇭 was an American🇺🇸 territory, that's why a lot of Filipinos speak English some like to mix up the language. For instance, if Bisaya speaker mixed with English. (Bis/Eng.) If Tagalog (Tag/Lish), that's what Makes Philippines 🇵🇭 unique 👌 Like halo Halo /Mix Mix 😅Lol.

Currently, we have 183 dialects and I speak 4 of them HAHAHAHAHA. I can understand 5 or 6 dialects

Hey I'm new to this reaction video... and I find it interesting to know you two. Thank you for featuring us Filipinos. And yeah I can speak, writes or reacts in english.

normally living in southern philippines..we are fluent in 3 languages..english, tagalog and bisaya..some are learning hanggul/korean nowadays..

Goshhh Proud PINAY HERE😍😍😍 I HOPE YOU TWO HAVE FUN WITH OUR SPEAKING IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE 😍😍😍 THANK YOU GUYS MY IDOL AND MY CRUSH 😍😍😍💜❤💜❤💜❤

First of all camera just kills your train of thoughts and trust me even the best English speaker in class could stutter a lot with a camera straight to the face. Second, WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO COMMENT TO FIFA AND THE GOVERNMENT, I mean it's like asking about something you haven't even thought about deeply.

Speaking fluently in English depends on how often you use it everyday. I for one is better off writing in English than speaking it as I don't have somebody to converse in English on a daily basis.

Love your topic guys....i love my wika ...it a matter of being human to know other language. ,.bravo3 guys

There’s a lot of Filipino who can speak well or fluent in English that she can interview. A lot Filipino words is not easy to pronounce or pick the right words in tagalog it’s easily to pronounce it in English so just speak tag-list.

Hello! Of I may comment this video, I would like say speaking English language fluently here in Philippines is not as priority as far as Americans is concerned. While Our Country the Philippines have a main or official language, English is second to tagalog, yet English is third language to use as far as native languages is concerned.😁 while English language is learned in Our Schools it is mainly important as far as foreign communication is needed to understand first.

In my side I am very thankful that I use to learn my son to speak in 3 language like Filipino,English,visaya and he try to learn Spanish and Arabic little by little.

Very interesting vlog, proud Filipina here 🙋‍♀️ keep it up & have a wonderful day!..

I kinda love the reactions❤, it was interesting that they are reacting about this videos. Its moving when realizing they made us realize the importance of languages❤💕

They forgot to point out to you guys that we have 180+dialects languages and mostly filipinos are atleast tri-lingual... their native language depending on their province... filipino which is base mostly with tagalog... and english... Some even knows sa korean and japanese due to kdramas and mangas

As a Filipino, watching english movies, and reading english subtitles, makes me more fluent in accent Sometimes I talk to myself

I also have a grandson who is a pure filipino but he grows up speaking english with no one teaching him but through watching english cartoons in their tv. Now he ie really into english speaking in the family because when we ask him in ilonggo he answer us in english so we are use to speak to him in english. Sometimes i cant catch with him even though i'm an undergrad college student.

😊❤ Yeah! it's true..we Filipino use English as our second language daily..but some of us speak #Tag-Lish..it means TAGALOG-ENGLISH Language..

This is also my reaction when I'm watching anime in english sub. Eyes on the sub!! Have a good one!

I liked how you two broke down things at the end of the video. I speak 3 languages and usually mix 2 or all of them together... And sometimes it comes out as a disaster. Lol. I like you two. Subscribing!

I can tell that, as a Filipino, English is my second language (international language), and I love using english especially in communication through different countries. But I really love the most using my own language which is Filipino because I'm with it, I stand with it,. I am Filipino and I love the way I am.

The joke usually comes in with friends when one speaks to a foreigner. The joke is us having a "nose bleed" after talking to a foreigner in straight English then everybody laughs coz he survived the conversation. 😂

Well, you guys aren't wrong in terms of different accents in the Philippines. We do speak with different English accents and actually there are many factors or reasons behind these differences :)

In my opinion, it's easier for us to use English terms on some occasions for lack of equivalent Tagalog/Filipino words. This is a normal occurrence when discussing science and math. Math operations are better said in English or Taglish. Imagine, if the teacher would say in Tagalog: 12 x 2, this would be: labindalawa paramihin ng dalawa. Or 36 divided by 3 (hatiin ang tatlumput-anim sa tatlo). I have to research if there are equivalent terms for ratio and proportions; algebraic terms, even scientific terms. These are the main flaws of the Filipino/Tagalog language, the lack of technical/scientific terms for Math/Science as these subjects are always taught in English.

Video-chatting online with English speaking people helps me improve my writing and spoken English I have an American guy friend for over 9 years now. We are both in the 70's today.

Thank u for ur understanding Godbless u guys

It's ok to be fluent on both language, but still love more our own language, Tagalog,and other local languages here in the Philippines,

We have the same situation in 8:37, I have a baby brother too and he's always talking in english, he can't even understand Filipino(tagalog) now 😅

Here in Phillipines we have a lot of launguages from different provinces but we understand each other by speaking few english word to communicate.

Finally i found this channel😅😅😅 Thankyou for both of you

Even in most job interviews, the questions are asked in English and most of the time, we are required to answer in English. This is just sad how most of us here have to adjust and learn English when we have our own language. Some people look down on others who can't speak English well and make them a laughingstock. It is good to learn English especially when travelling to different places but people should also accept that not all have to learn it. I can't speak fluent English and it may be embarrassing but I can't also speak fluent Filipino. 😢 Sometimes I wonder what my first language is. Or do I really have one? 😭😭😭

I can really relate with this topic💙😇

Absolutely and definitely we are using English in everyway...we confidently use English🥰

Salamat! Tenkyu. nice nays unique unik vlog blag! 👍👏

Tbh, I always have difficulty in speaking Tagalog. Im more comfortable in speaking English and Hiligaynon. I also speak Japanese much better than tagalog. 🤣

You guys are such hardworking people NGL

Phillipines al wahid, obsulutely number one, proudly Pilipino here, i know many kind of language not only in english, i know how to speak also french,Hangul, spanish and Arabic, learning different kind of languages is verry interesting...

We are Filipino's, it doesn't matter if you are not fluent or fluently speaks English as long as they get you and understand what you are trying to say. In fact Filipino is our national dialect that's what matter most.

Majority of Filipinos are probably trilingual because aside from English and Tagalog, they would be speaking another regional language -- unless they are from the Tagalog-speaking provinces. On top of English, my family speaks 3 Filipino languages fluently even after years of living in the US. It's amazing how English is the more prominent language at LAX before Pinoys board the Philippine Airlines but when the plane lands in Manila, you would hear the chatter to be more prominently Tagalog. :-)

Coz english is our second main language here,,thanks for reacting,I love u guys,,😍😍😍🇵🇭🇵🇭

English is a universal language to use so it is a must for global communication. Nonetheless, staying true to our mother tongue is always a priority on a daily basis. Mixing both can be confusing at times but occasionally there are words better expressed in English, and expressions better conveyed in Tagalog or in our native dialects.

I speak several Philippine languages/dialects namely: Tagalog, Ilonggo, Cebuano, Waray-Waray, Kinaray-a and Chavacano. Sometimes it can come really handy, like asking for a discount from a seller. :)

Filipinos can speak atleast 3 languages, Tagalog, English and Regional language, some can speak 4-5 languages. Proud Filipino here!!!

I am a Filipino and I live in Bicol province. I can speak 2 languages and 1 dialect. I am not a fluent speaker and I failed my subject in oral communication because of it🤣 I was like "It is because of...uhm kasi po...arog kan..." 🤧

Americans have accent too! Chicago, Texas, New York, Toronto etc... have different accents. i love accents, its fun trying to guess which state or province they come from:)

The English language is known as the Universal language and it is the 2nd language in the Philippines. Filipinos can speak Filipino and English at the same time. In younger years we are taught how to speak the language. We can be adaptive to the change and can manage to learn different languages. 🥰

Our accents differ from what province you were living...because each provinces here has different dialect or languages spoken to...

Back in my university in Cebu, we somehow speak ‘English’ more comfortably than ‘Tagalog’ it’s probably because our first language is ‘Bisaya’ and not ‘Tagalog’. If they have ‘Taglish’ in Luzon we in Visayas and Mindanao have ‘conyo’ (bisaya+english). Not everyone though but mostly. In general, to all dialects and languages in the Philippines that doesn’t have tagalog in their language structure, we view Tagalog and English in school the same way. They are both SUBJECTS that we need to study. *elaborate....* We comprehend both languages the same. I remember in my high school in Mindanao, we were only allowed to speak our ‘dialect or mother tongue’ during lunch breaks or after classes. We were expected to speak in English most of the time in class or else we would have to pay a fine everytime we mess up. We are only required to speak ‘Tagalog’ during our “FILIPINO & HISTORY CLASSES” but during our ENGLISH, MATH, SCIENCE, MAPEH, etc. speaking in English was required. That’s why there are times where it’s easier for us to read in english rather than in tagalog. People might think that we are ‘banyaga’ or without patriotism, I don’t think so. We speak our mother tongue better than any languages. If most of the tagalog speakers can’t really speak in fluent tagalog, we on the other hand could still speak fluently in our ‘mother tongue’ even with 2 “must added languages” (English & Filipino). We could have been polyglots by now if the SPANISH classes weren’t removed from our prospectus. Lol (Edit: The penalty fine for not speaking in English was Php5.00 pesos per mistakes. This also encourages the students to think before they speak. It helps them to behave in class as well. 🤣 The collected fines would be used to fund our “CLASSROOM CHRISTMAS PARTY”. 🥳)

Very well said you don't need to replace your language if you are a Filipino u need to use your languages I'm Filipino I love my languages

Oh we love our Pilipino Language ...mostly kids now a days they don't speak Tagalog more on English...like me English...Arabic...bikol..Tagalog others

I am proud to be a Filipino, speaking and being fluent to speak English doesn't make me less a Filipino, during the Marcos era, English is highly used and the percentage of Filipinos speaking English fluently is about 85%,but as a Filipino I still speak fluent tagalog or the Filipino language, I think that the department of education has a balance of promoting both languages. In school we have courses that only teaches tagalog so it is important that we learn the language by heart and use only tagalog during the whole course same through with the English language.

They should also interview at the Cordilleras, they're more fluent in English than Tagalog itself

so proud as philipino godbless to share this video

na touched ako sa dalawang na interview sana wag naman kalimotan yun sarili natin wika.. ok lang matuto ng ibang language pero mas nakaka hanga kung nagtatagalog parin..

You'll be surprised that there are a lot of Filipinos who can speak good english especially college students and those who work in corporate companies.

I dunno why but u guys do have a lot of Nike shirts aaaaaaaa💖

I've been speaking English since I was two years old. Quite difficult in my college to communicate with my tagalog-speaking classmates. Since, I'm visayan, we'd rather use English than Tagalog. But when I join local media here in my place I started practicing my Tagalog at effective naman sya. Pero yung fluency sa English I don't think mangyayari yun. Unless we are talking to foreigners. Syempre we love our own. Nag-e-emcee din ako, pag may script na pure English laban din. Pero kung free-flowing mas ok yung taglish.

We leave here abroad we still talk our kids with my native tongue Tagalog to preserve our heritage because English can learn at the school so far now my kids I can say they are good to speak both.

To anyone watching this, if you are confused on the difference of languages and dialects, I am suggesting that you should watch "ALAMAT's Philippine Languages Comparison". It was explained really well there.

I am proud to be a Filipino. even if we are Filipinos, we can speak English. the Filipino language should not be lost even if it is proficient in English.

Mostly Filipinos can speak English but the struggle become hard cause we processed word for word from Tagalog to English before we express what we mean to say. But we can express it little by little. That's the reason why foreigner can easily relate. Don't worry. We're still Filipinos. Foreigner wanted to learn how to speak 2nd, 3rd language or more likely. It's a gift learning how to speak and understand added language too.

I indulged myself watching english cartoons and hollywood movies most of the time back then when i was still a little kid cause i knew somehow that would help me advance my english in the future