Do You Spokening English?

[swapcentral.ph]

swapcentral.ph, what sucks are those who deny their heritage. Pero pango naman ang ilong. :D

ha ha!!! So true! We all run into people like that. I grew up with a couple white kids in Manila. Nakgkita kits kami last year. Mas pinoy pa sila compared to some Pinoys I know both in the states and Manila. No joke!

[nicolodeon]

Sabi ko nga sa eh (in one of my previoys posts), may kakilala ako na ang anak nag-sabi ng ganito eh: "Tagalog is so colloquial, so everyday". Parang bang, kapag nag-Tagalog sya eh bumababa yung...."quality" nya. Ni minsan, hindi ko narinig mag-salita ng Tagalog 'yung bata kapag bumisita ako sa bahay nila. Susme, swak naman sa sinabi ni FD: pango naman ang ilong.

[ILuvDetailing]

Mas nakaka asar siguro kapag tinatagalog mo tapos di ka pinapansin kunwari di ka niya naintindihan. hehehe buti sa mga pinsan ko walang ganyan kahit more than 10 years na sila sa tate.

[empy]

What I noticed in the states though... There are a lot of what we call "TWINKIES" Yellow on the outside but White on the Inside. alam mo na... mga Asians in general lumakhi sa tate and they talk and act like white people.

haha...living in LA we used to call some pinoys "COCONUTS" - brown on the outside, white on the inside :bwahaha:

but to be fair, we don't use it as a derogatory term to pinoys who grow up in the states and have the culture of americans (i myself am like this so i can't be a hypocrite ;) ). the real COCONUTS are the people who turn their back on their heritage and do stupid stuff like pretend they don't speak tagalog (baluktot naman ang english, bwahaha)

[swapcentral.ph]

There was a movie a couple years ago. I can't remember the title but Dante Basco starred in it. It may have been The Debut or sum'n like that. It was about a kid who was ashamed of his culture but was surrounded with friends and family that were so in touch with their Filipino culture even though they were second gen filams

[kiper]

Here's my share:
5. Fact: Starbucks make people speak English suddenly.

Hindi pa ko nag-english dun pag nag oorder.

[swapcentral.ph]

Here’s something to think about concerning our country’s English proficiency and enunciation and pronunciation. IIRC the unemployment rate is now at around 7-11% and yet call centers and other organizations are hard pressed to fill in positions because of dismal English language skills that a lot of Pinoys have. I know a lot of Filipinos take pride in their bad English but it isn’t funny when you're turned down because you are barok.

I’ve been interviewing a lot of applications for the past few weeks (100+) and barely 20% of our positions are filled. A great number of applications flunk because of poor scores from their language exam. Sure a lot of us might say “that’s ok” if you’re working locally but a lot of local businesses use English in their communiqués and documentation. What more if you try to apply at multinationals like P&G, Citibank or whatnot?

I missed this post earlier but that was very interesting! I thought for sure that call center jobs would be scarce being that English is our second language and that a lot of people would or should be qualified to answer phones and provide support in English.

I have been in IT for about 10 years and in recent years, the quality of tech support being provided by companies like Cisco, Microsoft, Computer Associates and the like have gone down substantially due to outsourcing off-shore engineers from India, Russia and other non-english speaking countries. I don't mean to be critical but I don't care if they have acquired every CISCO or Microsoft certification known to man, if I can't understand them, they're really not helping. So I thought for sure that most of these companies would flock Manila with their billion-dollar contracts to local call centers.

[2004lynxghia]

imo, it defends on circumstances..

a family with 2 kids born in the USA visits us every 3-5 years..just to let them aware of their racial roots.. ages ranging from 5 to 11..super slang talaga at akala mo pag nakapikit ka lang ang kausap mo talaga mga kanong superbrats..hehrherher..pati pag ngumalngal at nag-aasaran ang magkapatid american twang talaga..!

but i dont blame them neither the parents..naihahantulad ko sila sa isang kwento.. me nag-crash na isang eroplano sa isang jungle at isang tao lang ang survivor..and many many years later he grew up to become..TARZAN..!!..eyeoooooho..hoho..!...atungal elepante ang natutunan..

[diesoline]

ok lang naman yun kung nasa states..dahil english naman talaga dun.. pero yung mga andito sa maynila..kausap nila yung bata, english..kapag silang mag-asawa pilipino naman gamit..

hehehe! meron din iba, pag linalambing nila o kaya, inuutusan ang aso nila eh de-english pa. pero kung kausapin ka -- tagalog. feeling inferior to the dog tuloy ako!

[cyberdoc95]

The problem kasi ng karamihan is their perception about the language. Most of the Filipinos would think na parang pasikat to impress people. But English Language is just a language and language is used for expressing ourselves and nothing more. It doesn't make you a better person nor make you a less one if you don't speak it. It doesn't make who you are or what you are not.

If you look at English language as a tool to express yourself, then why not speak it or use it, di ba? Language has made us human beings unique from the other species in the animal kingdom because of our ability to speak and organize letters and vowels in a systematic way to enable to express clearly and in an orderly manner.

The problem is the perception. Take away that negative perception of speaking english, then you'll see that English is nothing more than Pilipino language. Kung mas magaling ka sa tagalog, then magsalita ka sa tagalog. If you are good in English, then for GOD'S SAKE USE IT!!!