in fact, the lyrics of the Philippine national anthem, "Lupang Hinirang", were originally written in Spanish, later translated into English and finally into Filipino only in the 1950s. "Marcha Nacional Filipina" is the title of the original Philippine anthem composed by Julián Felipe.

Spanish is still being taught in some universities in the Philippines. In my school, the University of Santo Tomas, we have two terms for Spanish. For History majors, they learn Spanish for five terms, basically until they become fluent. So yeah, we're pretty much still strongly tied to Spanish.

Glad you are putting the spotlight on this girl. So underrated. Great singer and dancer. She now lives in Chicago with her husband. Has the vocal skills to be very successful if she gets the right breaks.

I recently saw her live at Hoffman Estates, Illinois (3/23/23). She was terrific. She should be an international Superstar household name.

Yes SPANISH IS EASY TO LEARN, BEFORE , SPANISH SUBJECT IS INCLUDED IN HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, BUT NOW NO MORE, OUR GRAND PARENTS ARE FLUENT IN SPANISH LANGUAGE, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR HERRERA FAMILY ❤️❤️❤️

Spanish was once our 2nd language and not English as it is today.🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Hola Familia Hererra!!! Thanks for knowing and appreciating Filipino way of pronouncing Spanish. I think, of all the Peoples around the world (except South America, Mexico and Italy), Filipinos are the best in pronouncing Spanish as if it's their native tongue, afterall we've been colonized by Spain for about 333 years. Besides, Pilipino and Spanish Alphabets are almost the same. In our daily lives we even used Spanish Numerals and in telling Time. Most often than not we say; Ala Una, Alas Dos, Alas, Tres, Alas Quatro, Alas Cinco or Ala Una y Media, Alas Dos y Media, etc. In the Bicol Region (Southern Luzon) about 30% of words are in Spanish. And the Spanish Creole in Zamboaga, the Chavacanos.

You guys should check out her cover of the song "The First Noel" on TNT Version since I guess, it was not too late for Christmas😅.. It was pretty amazing and I love her😉.. By the way, I'm a fan of you two and I love watching you guys especially when you are reacting to our queen KZ Tandingan and all of the other Pinoy Artist❤️😘.. Kudos☺️

I know Brazil because there are many Brazilian models here in the Philippines, and I know Mexico because they are like our latino brother because they look like Filipinos, especially those who live in America. I'm familiar with Venezuela because of pageantry. :)

I'm happy to watching you guys,yes you're correct because the Philippines are many similar for Spanish and popular to speak are many same on Spanish

I remember when i was small in the province most of elderly can speak fluently in Spanish. Including my grandfather he speak in spanish/japanese/& english if he is Drunk. 😁

Hahahaha. Not only Tagalog or Filipino Language that have Spanish influence but also down to our dialects. I just realized that when I watched La Casa De Papel. I heard so many Spanish words that are similar to my dialect.

That is so true. We Filipinos find it easier to learn Spanish than our English native counterparts. I remember my American classmates when I was studying Spanish, they sound totally different. You can easily tell that they’re English native unlike us Filipinos we’re already using Spanish works without even knowing it.

9:06 "good morning" in Tagalog is "magandang umaga". Other languages in the Philippines have variants like "maayong aga" or "malipayong adlaw", but most of them are rooted in pre-Hispanic languages. Only Chavacano might have something resembling "buenas dias" (I could be wrong, of course)

Some Filipinos grow up with Spanish cultures, languages and ancestries. I’m a Filipino from Visayas and my great-Grandparents were from Spain, we had Spanish priests in our High School days and we had Spanish class in our curriculum before. I grew up in the Philippines with families and friends that mainly speak Spanish. I don’t speak Spanish but I can understand some words of it. Cebuano dialect have some Spanish words.

Mexico 🇲🇽 is in North America 😉 You both and your dad are so much fun to watch. La chica canta muy linda! 👍🏼 ❤️

Soy Filipino pero mi lingua en mi casa es Cebuano estonces Español porque mi abuelo hablo Español muy bien. Ahora, Yo hablo Español muy mal y muy poco. Usando las idiomas es no importante en años pasados. Creo que Español gentes hablo Tagalog es mucho alegre! Gracias a todos. - Student of Communication :) ***Correct me if I'm wrong.

Such an underrated vocalist

Eumee can nail an impression of Christina Aguilera, even in Spanish! WOW Magellan set foot in the Philippines 500 years ago. Spain occupied The Philippines for 333 years. That was how long Spanish was an official language. Spanish is required for law school and the (Catholic) seminary in The Philippines. If you think Eumee is great at Spanish, check Morissette: note that Morissette speaks Bisayan, a language that has more Spanish words than Tagalog. Eumee might know Kampampangan, which has fewer Spanish words than Bisayan. You are correct: Filipinos who know at least Tagalog can learn Spanish quickly! Do see The Voice Spain and reality shows in Latin America. Feliz Navidad y prospero ano felicidad!

Waleska is right. Filipinos can really learn Spanish in no time if it forces to someone. Same goes with Latinos, you guys can easily learn Tagalog because of the same conjugations. It just needs to activate to every Filipino and Spanish people to learn the Tagalog and Spanish language respectively.

EUMEE GROWN FULLY HERE IN THE PHILIPPINES, SPANISH LANGUAGE IS PART OF OUR LIFE TOO, MANY FILIPINOS CAN SPEAK SPANISH LANGUAGE FLUENTLY, , CULTURE ALSO,

Love you both and Eumee!!! ❤️❤️

It's a tough question to answer because being popular has so many aspects. But in terms of awareness, I would say my personal awareness is ranked as: 1. Brazil (football, dance, jiu jitsu, bossa nova) 2. Mexico (our connection with the Manila Galleon Trade) 3. Argentina (football, corned beef) 4. Colombia, Venezuela (Miss Universe, football) 5. Puerto Rico (basketball) 6. Chile (football) 7. Panama, Peru, Honduras (I honestly don't know much)

My grand dad is half Spanish and hes talking to us Spanish language so we can understand a little i miss him so much he died 10 years ago...mi amor lolo

Efra is hilarious. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Fun fact!!! There's this dialect in hiligaynon called karay,a in the Philippines that actually uses more rrrrr and we kinda uses more Portuguese words.

Filipinos can literally sounds every language.

1. Mexico - boxing, mexican food, culture is very similar to philippines, telenovelas 2. Brazil - sports, dance, beaches 3. Venezuela / Colombia - beauty pageants

Fiiiirssttt LOVE YOU BOTH!

Que bonito! Saludo desde Camarines Sur el Filipinas! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

We Filipinos are naturally adaptable to any language. Place us in a place were nobody speaks our language, we would naturally speak the language, at least maybe the commonly used phrases. Look at the Filipinos around the world. They would know how to converse with the natives in their language.

I wanna meet both of you and just sit down and talk about your Spanish heritage and my Filipino Heritage. And the similarities we have.

Spain conquer the Philippines for over 350 years so that is why some Filipinos are fluent in Spanish language specially our elderlies...

Spanish is one of our subject in Philippines before Our grandparents their mother tongue was Spanish that’s why Spanish is mix in Tagalog language

Filipino know 25% of spanish. Because when i was in college we have subject Spanish. Besides we are colonised by the spaniards almost 300 yrs. We stop studying spanish in the year of 1987. We cannot graduate in college if you didnt pass your spanish subject

As a Filipino myself, these are the most popular Latin American countries including Brazil: 1. MEXICO well Philippine history is so tied with it 2. BRAZIL big country 3. COLOMBIA beautiful people 4. PUERTO RICO a US territory 5. ARGENTINA football and movies 6. PERU history 7. VENEZUELA Miss Universe

We had a Spanish language in our schools back in the day.

There was a time when Spanish is the 2nd language of the Philippines and it is included in the curriculum of education. So, most, of not, everyone spoke Spanish, English & Filipino. Everyone in school had to learn English, Spanish, even Japanese too. Later it was declared that after Filipino, English is our second language. But then up to this day, many of our grandparents and elders can still speak Spanish, and most of our dialects in the Philippines has words derived in Spanish.

I love you efra😘😘 Stay healthy and safe you both godbless😘😘

I love you Eumee❤you sounds like Jelo❤

You guys are awesome..happy to see your reactions..so natural..keep it up..👏👏👏

YEEEEES! FINALLY! I've been spamming this for longer than I can remember!

I think Im inlove with Efra..😍😍

You guys need to check Sasa Dagdag version of this song on wish bus.

mexico and philippines are connected tradewise for over 300 years under the same vice royalty of new spain under galleon trade. so culture were intermixed

Maybe shes getting ready for a spanish singing contest .. Maybe thats why shes in america right now

Hahaha LATIN COUNTRY OF ASIA is Filipinas ,Uno Dos Tres Kwatro Vamos! Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo guys from 🇵🇭

guys ur combi is so cool & fun

Spain colonised the Philippines for some time in history. That's how the Spanish influence is so strong among the Filipinos.

I actually tried learning Spanish via DuoLingo and got to Level 30 something. Learning the words and pronouncing them wasn't the issue. I couldn't remember which words were masculine and which were feminine plus how verbs change with gender assignments of nouns was hard to nail down. I also didn't have enough practice. Hehehe. With more exposure and personal incentive to learn, I could perhaps pick up Spanish in a year or two of lax learning.

Please also check out Maki Lucino singing his heartfelt rendition of Hiling on TNT. You'll love it.

i love venezuela. i have a lot of friends in Valenzuela. 🇵🇭

Good Morning in Filipino is Magandang Umaga💗

TWICE's 3rd Full Album, Formula of Love:O+T=

"WHY SPANISH?" because it's really sounds cool here at the Philippines 🥰

thats dad in backround voice 🤔 he is😊😊😊☃️❤️

Hi Spanish actual is widely spoken here in philippines specially during college spanish language in in our curicular or subgect

Never enough n wrecking ball by eumee. Thanks.

If you want Filipinos singing spanish then go Spain section, there ate so many Fiipinos there singing Spanish

Wow ❕

In the Philippines History 1521-1898 most educated Pilipino speak Spanish. Even Jose Rizal (national hero) written his work on Spanish not tagalog

Caloy Quemada, it's sing Omegle,and KZfaqr, it's so god singer

In Visayas regions they speak more spanish vocab compared to tagalog, so those people in provinces are more familiar and speaks more spanish than people who speaks tagalog. My Grandmother, speaks fluent Latin when she's pissed off and only use Latin when praying

Mexico is in North America! I love hearing your conversations especially con Papa`!

When I was in college in Mindanao Philippines, the Spanish language was included in our curriculum. We must take the Spanish 1 in fist year first semester and Spanish 2 in the 2nd semester. We were surprised to learn that our bisaya dialect has more Spanish, that even our evening prayer that we did in front of our grandparents, they called it Tenga prayer. We kneel down in front of our grandfather and we spell the prayer Tenga oste Dios buenas noches senior Lolo amen, then we kiss the hands of our grandfather.

Happy 0.5M subs !

Check out guys her performance in TNT specially the bang bang and chandelier. More power to both of you😘🥰🤗

Being colonized by Spanish for 333 years, Filipinos have spanish blood and almost 80 percent of our culture is the same with the Spanish.

I am proud of eumee capile..

please make more reaction video of eumee capile

That Merry Christmas, Efra. Hahaha. If I were a boy. 🤣

Spanish is integrated in our schools curriculum the whole Philippines college years in year 1985 it was stop

Our high school principal was a Spanish priest (we have a LOT of Catholic schools in the Philippines). He spoke fluent and accent less Filipino. So I think Waleska is right, it’s very easy for a Spanish speaker to learn Filipino, at least accent-wise. I remember Waleska did a GREAT job singing her cover of Moira’s Filipino song. 👍😀

When she start sing espanyol, efra reaction was so funny hehehe

I love you guys 😍😘😘😘😘

My teachers back in elementary taught us how to sing the national anthem in spanish.

Good day, I'm from the philippines, I suggest to react also a band called Six part invention.

efra is so funny,, :)

Spanish is one of the philippines language🇵🇭

Please react also to EUMEE CAPILE'S new singel called NEW ROUTE . THANK YOU ♥️

In my parent's time, Spanish language is the mode of communication/teaching instead of English in the Philippines...my older cousins when they were in high school, they had it as an elective subject...

i hope you guys react to Paul Pablo's "Bangin". i think he deserves more recognition esp that song, it's such an amazing song!!!

Hi there ... Check out some old vids of Vernie Vargas performance in Ryan Ryan Musikahan! And learn more of some filipinos jazz music, i think they deserves to be heard also, you wont regret listening to her ... She's very good! ☺️🙏🏼

PHILIPPINES was colonized by the Spaniards for 300 years why we had Spanish tongue too. Filipinos are mixed race why we can easily speak any languages.

THANKS 😂 EFRA 5:21 AND HERRERA FAM, you made me 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so hard, You made my day actually. Happy New Year fam 🎉❤️🙏✌️

Came here to laugh with Efra's annotations. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Feliz Navidad y Ano Nuevo!!!

Eumee capili is a contender of tnt before.."tawag ng tanghalan"

most Known latin country in philippines are Mexico and Cuba. this is because of the Americans.as well as the Spaniards. Brazil is known in philippines because of christianity. The rest of the Latin world is only known to us begining the 1960's. this is I can recall.

PLEASE DO A REACTION VIDEO OF EUMEE'S BANG BANG PERFORMANCE ON GGV

Hi Waleska and Efra! Hope we get to see/hear your thoughts on LOVE YOURS by Ohwon Lee where SB19 is featured. Ohwon Lee is a singer and producer. He also produced GO UP by SB19 (the song that made SB19 viral on Twitter and sky rocket their career) Thank you 🥰

Happy New Year btw🥳🎉♥️

so cute hahaha

More reaction for Eume pleaseeee...

Dang I laughed so hard because of Efra!

viva pilipinas Feliz navidad Shout Out familia martinez To Cebu bantayan Island Mue Alegre. Solo Dios Te Ama comparte Te Amo

pls react to mark michael garcia superstar song and just once song thanks.

Karamihan ng filipino ay may lahi ng ibang bansa.. Kami may lahi ng mexican and spanish..

Buenas! Love your white sweatshirt/jacket bro, can i buy it? Ahaha.. kidding.. we can understand the spanish language, weird but thats true.. loved this reaction :) mabuhay!

I love all Latin American countries but the first thing that comes to my mind when I hear Latin American is Mexico followed by Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and then Venezuela. I'm quite familiar with Venezuela because of Miss Universe. Hahaha

unrelated but bambam released a new song yesterday with seulgi from red velvet!! it's called "who are you" i hope you guys check it out