The Philippine language is called Tagalog
My friend had said he was able to understand his family when they spoke Tagalog(he's filipino), but he couldn't speak it. it didn't have to do with pronunciation, he just cant speak it. how is this possible? I thought that was rather interesting lol
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Understanding (oral speech) and speaking are different skills, differing again from reading.
While the choice of words is poor, in a sense listening and reading are passive (not really but you know what I mean); speaking and writing are active skills.
For me in French, for example, I can understand spoken French quite well, but my skills at using verbal tenses is weak.
Also I understand Swedish and Danish when someone speaks to me, but I have to use Norwegian when I speak back.
I can understand a moderate amount of Czech, but I could never speak it because I do not know any of the grammatical rules and would not know when to inflect certain words.
I understand the meanings of words, and recognize them when they are inflected to fit the proper case, but I do not know many of the rules that govern these inflections, so I wouldn’t be able to produce them myself.
well im a latina n i understand my family when they speak spanish… i cant speak it because i don’t know how to pronounce it or its hard to roll off my tong.HOPED I HELPED!!!!!!!!!!
An imbalance like this can easily occur when learning. When he’s listening to Tagalog, he’s learning passively …in order to speak it better, he’d have to take a proactive approach.
And of course it takes more effort to construct a sentence rather than listen to it — people like their speech to flow, we feel silly having to sit there amongst native speakers and slowly try to make an elementary point 5 minutes after the subject has passed. So, it’s easier to neglect the speech aspect of a language sometimes.
It happens to me in Spanish, I can understand the verbs and nouns, but I have trouble conjugating the verbs and speaking in past tense and so…
this is actually very common. it’s a bit like being able to appreciate great art but not create it. or to follow an argument than to come up with it. in every domain our active abilities are much less than our passive ones. this is in part because if u think about it, to understand tagalog, i dont have to know what is right and what is wrong, whereas to speak it, i do.
I understand English quite well, but I’m unable to speak it, because I am not used to.
Same here. I understand my parents’ native tongue Tamil, but I don’t/can’t speak still after being in Tamil school for years..at least I learned to understand it haha. I guess it’s good to at least understand the language even if you don’t speak it. Then you have some grasp of it.