Unless they have studied Bisaya or learned it from someone who can teach them, like if their parents were from Visayas or Mindanao and they could speak Bisaya, then I am sure that their children would be able to speak it, or at least understand it, if their parents talk to them in Bisaya at home.

Bisaya was suppose to be the main language of the Philippines, since Cebu was the old capital of the Philippines. But since the first president was a Tagalog, the tagalog langauge became it, and Manila became the capital.

But anyways I am happy that it went like that, because we can talk in Bisaya and they wouldn’t be able to understand us lol.

My uncle also, he married my aunt, she’s Cebuana, and he is from Manila. When they married and was their first time living together in Cebu, my uncle in law couldn’t speak Bisaya haha.

But now he’s really good lol. I think it only took him a year or two. In Cebu, if you speak Tagalog or English you get laughed on, like in most Bisaya speaker lands.

But he was never laughed by my family or any other fellow Cebuanos, but from other Tagalog speakers who speak Tagalog in Cebu, they are not so fortunate.

But one of the unique thing about the Philippines is, we have so much cultures that differenate from each other. We have so many dialects along with that, but we are able to communicate with each other through the Tagalog language, which is our official language.

Kind of interesting noh? China can’t even do that… lol… If you go to some parts of China, they wouldn’t be able to understand you, if you spoke to them in Mandarin.