kooonichiwa

*bow*

i hacht a queschtion,....

sagmamano nga iti dialekto ken iti lenggawhe iti pilipinas?

---> do we have alot?

if so,...then is it as multifarious as myriad it is as the ephemeral days of a month?

kasing rami ba ng isang buwan?

- if we do have alot of languages,...what should you feel about it?

--> la nostre kun alerto?, et no accuzar la malo? es la possibilidad iti panicos?,..or should we deal with it as a sort of exciting multiculturalism?

your points please...

salamat
thank you
arigato
danke
muchas gracias
gracie
efharisto
shieh shieh
selamat tingal ,

i'm a filpino.. i only know 2 languages.. tagalog and english.. for those who can speak chinese, what is the easiest way to learn the language?

I speak English, a little French, a little Spanish and some Tagalog. And a couple things in German.

What languages do you speak?
How many would you like to learn?
What's your favorite out of the ones you know?
My favorites are definitely French and German. French is pretty easy. And I just like German.

The Prayer, originally sung by Celine Dion and Andre something XD has become a successful song and is now translated in many many languages.

I've heard a Filipino version sung by PAX Ministrels in YouTube. Where do you get the copy of the lyrics in Filipino? XD

I speak Tagalog as my first language and I always speak it in public when I'm with family and people usually gives me some sort of angry stare, like they're about to yell "THIS IS AMERICA! SPEAK ENGLISH!". I just need your opinion on this.
@ oldasdirtandknowsitall: Tagalog is one of the many languages spoken in the Philippines.(Just in case your wondering.)

I was just wondering, since i can speak Afrikaans,English,Tagalog and Spanish... is it easier for me to learn other languages?

i have many accents so is it easier for me?

I could learn italian way fast with my spanish background.

I can speak 4 languages: English, Sindhi, Tagalog, and Visayan.

these are filipino families who are long-time residents in the US. their kids are US-born and do not speak tagalog or any of the local dialects/languages. some have not even once visited the philippines although some of them are already young adults. does it mean the absence of patriotism?

what are your thoughts on this?

So two girls were talking about me on facebook. I'm friends with one of them but I want to know what she's saying about me. She speaks 3 languages but I assume they are speaking Filipino.
Here's what they said:

Girl1: wow! gwapo naman ng new bf mo..hehehe jokies...

Friend: tita naman! hindi yata noh! kaw ha!

i'm just asking, 'cuz people ask me how many languages i can speak but i'm not sure if I should say 2 or 3...

I speak english, tagalog, and visayan.

theres two languages if your filipino..

theres tagalog and ilocano

if you speak both and english
ur consider as trilangual right??

I'm really curious. How good are you in reading people?
Here are 4 statements about me...only 2 are real (absolute truths); the other 2 are my fantasies (absolute fallacies).
Play along and guess which is which.....

1. I am 58 yrs. old, female and well-educated (AB Sociology, 1968, University of the Philippines; MA Social Pyschology, 1972, Stanford).
2. I love travelling...been to all the continents except Africa, Antartica and Australia.
3. I speak 4 languages...Pilipino, English, Spanish and French (not fluently).
4. I am trapped in the Y!A site and I'm desperately trying to get out.

Are there free practice sites to study languages here? Tagalog is the main language of the Philippines.

Tagalog incorporates English and Spanish in its language so is it easier to learn if you know these two languages?

We are American missionaries in Baguio City and we need to find some one who can teach us the Filipino and possibly Ilocano language. If you know of someone or of a website that can lead us to one that would really help us.
Also I just wanted to add that we need a tutor that is professional(preferably with a language teaching degree) and has taught these languages before, we had a tutor before in Mindadnao and it didn't work out because they didn't know really how to teach the language, they just basically knew it pretty well, Thanks

i know english and tagalog very well, now, i am trying to learn korean.. i was wondering if anyone who knows any of the 2 languages i know and speaks korean too, be kind enough to teach me? i would be able to be online on my yahoo messenger most of the time so i can talk to you there.. please add me on YM the e-mail is raine_23_mysty_gurl@yahoo.com.. i shall be waiting for any help from u there,,

hi lang...
uhh...
I have this really retarded project...
and I have to name a city.
The name has to be significant... And I'm no good at spelling Filipino.
I'm Chinese, Filipino, and Mexican... and uhh... Please help me come up with a name of a city, best name gets 10 pts promised.
The city has to be a utopia... so open to anything...

For Visayan people:
how do you spell "my hair is on Fire"
I know how to say it, it is spelled "nasunog akong buhok?"

and open... tell me the name of the city (english or Filipino) and tell me what it means if its not in english...
I speak Chinese, Spanish, obviously English, but I am just about oblivious in Filipino... can you blame me I know 3 languages which have nothing to do with each other...minus a few similar words in Spanish...
and I'm not totally stupid, so don't try and tell me something in filipino and go 'it means "peace" when it means go **** yourself... I'm not that oblivious"
best answer gets 10 pts
It has to be a Utopia... so positive... lol

It isn't i guess really urgent... If you say its worth 10 pts though you tend to get more people to voice their opinion and for what 2 or 5 superficial points...i don't care...lol

Mabuhay!, Maayong adlaw kaninyo mga igsoon ko! I lived in the Philippines particularly in Davao. I'm a Filipino and I just want to know who are Filipinos in the Yahoo!Answer. And I also want to learn other languages. Can you teach me?

Tagalog incorporates English and Spanish in its language so is it easier to learn if you know these two languages?

I definitely don't think it's Tagalog. Tagalog doesn't sound like anything to me but... Tagalog.

My mother said it was the language they speak in Cebu that sounds the most like Spanish, but I'm not so sure...

(Filipino answerers or those familiar with the languages there are much loved.)

I am half Filipino and want to begin studying Tagalog. Just curious how difficult it may be. I speak a little a Spanish and Portuguese so I have some experince studying other languages, but those are similar to English. Any other advise would be appreciated.

I'm doing an essay in S.S about the philippines, and i decided to do bagyo. so does anyone know the languages they speak other that tagalog

Where can you find what languages they offer on the website?

It seems kinda weird that there is Chinese, and Japanese for community college language classes, but why don't I see more variety? I am interested in taking Korean and some Tagalog (most of my friends from work are from the Philipines) but those languages are not offered and I am too broke to go to the Language Door place to learn them. (up to 0 bucks to learn just one language!).

Hello, I need to write a stand showing some languages. And I need to write Tagalog .. but I am wondering how do I actually write the word "Tagalog" in tagalog. for example Japanese word in japanese is 日本語(nihongo), or Portuguese word in portuguese is Português. Thanks　

I have encountered two Filipino people who have told me that to them it is an unsult to hear a White Foreigner trying to speak Tagalog to them. To me this sounds ridiculous because Filipino people speak so many languages abroad- they quickly learn Spanish and Arabic and German and French and speak those well and no one thinks that way about them.
Frankly, I have never heard anything more preposterous in my life.
Why are they saying that and is it an insult to you, too?

I see that in sites about the Philippines, they use <i>Pilipino</i>, but my family and everyone from the Philippines speaks <i>Tagalog</i>. Is Pilipino reffering to all the languages and dialects of the Philippines?

i can be your tutor. Tagalog is the Filipino language while Cebuano is the language in most of the Visayan provinces. I can teach you how to speak some tagalog or cebuano languages.

We Filipinos are taught that the language tat we use today borrows words from other languages such as Malay, Spanish and some Chinese. So now the question is which of those languages contributed the most to Filipino the way we know it today?
Btw I curious about this fact because I think it will help me to decide what foreign language to study since it may be easier due to the similarities.

thank you all for your help.

I am trying to learn tagalog and a couple of other languages, but I do not understand some of the shorthand in chat. Please tell me what this means: pwde ko ba malaman ano cp num m. para mg mit dn tau