Filipino not a ‘language of the learned,’ says columnist

[vinj]

so it's better to talk with them in English. But i know a lot of Cebuanos who can speak filipino/tagalog in tagalog accent fluently.

I guess it's not applicable to all (especially those who interact a lot with people from Manila).

[badsekktor]

A lot of us are expecting too much from a native language or a native dialect. English language is totally on a different level compared with other languages in the first place.