I have an English language gaming website that has become popular in the Philippines. Google says a lot of people that speak Tagalog are searching my site. Is it worth it for me to pay someone to do translation of my content or do most people in the Philippines speak enough English that it doesn't matter?
The website is http://www.casualgameguides.com

Hi, I'm Rebecca. I just started college (in the Philippines) and i am already struggling. Filipino is not a major subject for the course i am taking, but still, i can't fail. I have been living here for about 6 years but i have learnt a dialect, not tagalog, the language Filipino is taught in. People always laugh when i answer wrong, but that isn't my problem. I don't know how i can get through this subject, and passing it.

HELP!

thanks

In other words, their relationship is cordial. Also, Japan has invested heavily in the Philippines and the Philippine government sent people to Japan to help during the tsunami emergency. Filipinos also travel to Japan to work. My question is how does the average Japanese see Filipinos? I've read conflicting stories about the issue.

id like to learn Tagalog because my parents didnt teach me when i was young. I am now a 16 year old pilipino american and i want to go to the philippines before going to college. if you can teach me tagalog, please let me know. i have a skype, facebook, and yahoo messenger.

I am going on a mission trip to the Philippines this spring and I want to learn some Tagalog just for fun. What is the best way, if I don't know a Filipino personally?

I'm not talking about filipino girls straight out of the philippines. i'm talking about the local girls if that makes any sense. What do you like/dislike about them?

I just wanna know if they do because my friend and I likes Asian girls and we'd like to go somewhere in Asia but we only speak English and very little Spanish.. Very little. By the way, we're white so do Filipinas or Asian girls in general like white boys? I seen that in The Philippines that Filipino and English were their main languages but I could actually go there only speaking English and be able to get through the country well, right?

Hi can anyone tell me about whats a good attention getting device for my speech? My topic is about "The Filipino Culture" . And, I will be talking about the Filipino cuisine, Common Family traits in the Philippines and the Courtship in Philippine culture. I am just confuse about the attention getting device but, other than that, i am perfectly fine! Hope you can help me ASAP! thanks and God bless You all....

I mean how did agriculture start in the Philippines in the Neolithic era or before the Spaniards came...how did early people in the Philippines learn to farm?

I am a Caucasian guy and I am trying to speak Tagalog in the Philippines. I get all kinds of weird reactions. Some 20% of people answer in Tagalog. Some 20% just stand there shocked turning and mumbling to others near them: "Marunong sya magtagalog, marunong sya magtagalog" or repeating that phrase to me and not answering the question that I ask them, some 50% stubbornly answer in English- they look uptight, tense as if they are facing a teacher and some even stand at attention. The others start acting weird- they go" yeah, yeah" ( instead of saying oo, oo) and some even start swaggering and limping and acting like hip hop gangsters- "yo, what's happenin' maaaan".
I have to battle it daily in my struggle to speak Filipino to Filipino people in the Philippines. So, could you please help me with these phrases by translating them?:

Can you please just act natural like you would with any other person?
Can you please stop acting like a gangster?
Can you please stop swaggering?
Please treat me as an equal.
Please treat me like anyone else.
Please stop acting uptight and just relax and talk to me like you would talk to anyone else.
Please don’t give me special treatment, I am just a regular person.
Never mind Tagalog, could you please just answer the question.

Here in the Philippines, people are fond of watching Asian Dramas dubbed in Filipino language and broadcasted in TV. As what I have asked, it is for a school activity that asks for our own opinions and explain. I really need your help! )

Im planning to learn japanese in high school and I was wondering what kind of jobs I could get into if I know how to speak japanese. Would I be able to do jobs in the medical field ? And I already know how to speak Tagalog (philippines), a little bit of Spanish, and English.

Everytime I come over to my friend's house, her family is always watching these shows from the Philippines, I noticed that the singers only sings songs that became famous here. Are there any songwriters there? Can't they write their own songs? Singers here get famous by promoting their own album or cd's, but how could they get famous anywhere else if they CANNOT sing their own songs?....Don't get me wrong, I really like Charice Pempenco, she's one in a billion, she's real amazing, very talented.

First of all I'm an 14 year old girl, so here it goes while I was studying social study here in japan my teacher is trying to pissed me by saying that my country is so low and how disgusting we are i'm not japanese anyway I'm a pilipino and my japanese teacher said that they are so amazing thatn us I already knew that he don't have to repeat that all over again everyday! I was blushing in front of my japanese classmates the reason why filipino is being bulied here is that because of the filipina women who work in strips club here in japan and my teacher said I'll be one of them when I grew up?! seriously I want to punch him in the face I even made a fuck sign to him but I was hiding it covering it with my finger and when I came home all I found is bill problems and all of the things that my father should since my dad doesn't know how to speak japanese I handle all the things in here I always interpret whenever we go out and there is just many things I handle I CLEAN THE HOUSE,I STUDY,BEING BULIED AT SCHOOL,AND INTERPRET HIM,CALCULATE ALL THE BILLS Sometimes and sometimes me and my dad fight at small things gosh my dad when we fight small things he tries to get it bigger which is annoying....sometimes I really feel exhausted and tired of it and sometimes I just want to end my life to finish all of this problems I don't even have friends at school my bestfriends are in the philippines and I miss them so much:( I can't be friends with japanese girls they are so fake! and wants sex all the time well I can't do that I'm catholic I tried to be friends with them somehow but just doesn't work! is it normal for a 14 year old to feel this way? or experience this? sometimes I'm so jealous of people having many friends then I'm jealous everytime I log in to facebook and see my friends in philippines go to field trips!

I really want to learn to speak Tagalog. My mom is Filipino and never taught me. I plan on visiting my family in the Philippines for the first time this summer and want to be able to communicate with them. My om has tried teaching me recently but our schedules don't match up and so there's just no time. I saw an infomercial on Rosetta Stone and I'm wondering if it really works.

Hey! I'm trying to learn tagalog, and I already learned: Nouns, verbs, past present and future tense, prepositions, adverbs, and adjectives. Is there anything else I should learn?
Btw I'm full filipino, and I'm about to move to the philippines, so i really need to learn fast.

I am 19 years old and a high school graduate.I really want to learn Tagalog or Ilocano because all of my friends speak that language because they are all in the Philippines (I have been back in California since April 2009,also I haven't continued college yet because of complications with my transcripts so I do not go to school and I barely go out). I lived in the Philippines since May or June 2006 til I came back on April 2009. I went to high school there for 2 years and took 2 semesters of college. I've read while searching on yahoo answers that it is easy to learn Tagalog if you lived there for more than a year or so but I never learned it at all. I don't even understand the majority of what they say on TFC or when my relatives talk in Tagalog,same with Ilocano. For a few days now, I've been trying to teach myself using an online course that comes with an online book and tapes that I can listen to. Right now I am still on the basics because I keep repeating the same thing because even the basics I don't seem to be able to remember. What other methods can I use?

My grandmother came from the Philippines and its her 70th birthday. I don't speak tagalog. She doesn't speak English, so I need help. There are no online translators either.

This is what I have so far:

Maligayang Bati Sa Iyong Kaarawan!
Mahal Ka Namin Inay at Lola! (Is this good so far?)

With loving thoughts and memories
of the wonderful mother
you've always been...

With heartfelt gratitude
for the special grandmother you are...

With warm wishes for you
to enjoy your day and remember
how very much you're loved.

I am planning on traveling overseas next year, Philippines.
What do I need to do to head overseas? Passport? Visa?
What is easier? Going to an office to get a passport, or Online? How much and how long is the process?
Thanks for all for the info any information help, this is my first time overseas, I know someone there so I won't be alone in the country. Good thing coz, I don't speak Tagalog and they do Thanks again everyone.

i found a cheap iphone 3g but its sold in the Philippines and the font and stuff is in Philippine (or some-other language) so i was wondering if i could change it to english with maybe an english firmware download or something

I'm a Filipino-American. Yesterday, my Chase Customer Service call was picked up by a call center agent located in the Philippines. Agents in the Philippines speak and understand Tagalog. They speak very good english. They are also not allowed to speak Tagalog, which I understand.

I suggested to the agent that I prefer to use Tagalog in my conversation with her. She told me in return that the conversation is being recorded and that I must speak in English. I told her that Chase Customer service has an option for Spanish-speaking callers, so why not allow me to speak Tagalog. She said it's the call center policy.

My question: I there any race profiling-related US law that is being violated here?

Thanks.
"What if it had been routed to Mumbai and they wanted you to speak Hindi?"

--- I'm not saying that they have to require me to speak Tagalog. I'm just saying, is Tagalog an option for the caller to use since they understand it?

Also, I did not mean to mention "race profiling", which is a very sensitive item here in the US. I just didn't know what law, IF ANY, is being violated here.

I'm asking this question on behalf of many US residents (citizen or not) who, at times, are more comfortable speaking their native tongue.

Thanks for the quick answers though. Made it clearer.

im 23 years old, 25% chinese, i only know a little fukien and mandarin, i learned it by book and listening. however i want to be more fluent and able to understand chinese better. i wasnt introduced to chinese by my parents, i live in the philippines and i was raised the filipino way...is it too late for me to learn such languages?

I'm Filipino and Spanish was abolished in Philippines. It was once an official language. Its my second semester of Spanish in college I can understand but its weird because sometimes I keep switching from English-Spanish or Filipino to Spanish vice versa since its mix with Spanish. I'm getting confuse when I listen to a native speaker of Spanish or even when Im studying the language because most of the time it doesn't make any sense when I translate it to English but to Filipino mostly it make sense anyway please advice me please thanks.

I am learning multiple languages so i can travel to other countries and because i like languages

should i learn tagalog spoken in the philippines

or swahili spoken in east africa
which is more useful?

which country has better food? and is a better place to go

I am very interested in learning Tagalog. Mainly to become closer with my family there in the Philippines. Also, to experience the culture by first hand going to markets to buy my own food, catching a tricycle & paying the fee myself, ect. I cannot do all this now, I do not speak Tagalog jaja.

But if there are any foreigners who have learned the language fluently, can you please share your experiences with me & yahoo answers.

First off, what drew your interest to pursue fluency in the Filipino National Language?
How did you actually learn the language itself, through a dictionary, online program?
How long did it take you to learn learn, & speak the language clearly and concisely?
Was it difficult? Is Tagalog a hard language to learn?

How has it changed your relationships with the Filipino people?
& your overall experience in The Philippines?

Your feedback is appreciated lots!

Im filipino, and I Have Exploring New Languages, and I need something I can take to school with me that helps me represent our filipino culture. I dont want to bring the flag, or filipino money, because everybody else is going to bring it.
Umm I dont want to bring food. Everybody might want some thats why.
Oooh And We are not allowed to brign pictures of things.
Haha. I Should Have bought barrell man when I went on my trip to the Philippines.

I'm in love with a beautiful woman from the Philippines. She speakes Cebuano and tagalog. What words in Tagalog can I say to tell her how much I care and love her. Any good phrases I could say for someone I love in Tagalog? Thank you for your help.

I want to be able to practise my tagalog BEFORE I GO TO THE PHILIPPINES, my husband (who is pinoy) is too busy with work to help a lot. My question is : Are there any places online where I can meet other philippinos so that I may practise speaking tagalog.
I am going to the philippines in 2014 but want to be able to speak slightly fluently to family members before I go there.

i'm doing a project for school on France and the Philippines that calls for true-to-life newspaper articles. the easiest way for me to do this is to find them online, although i'm having trouble finding them. it can't be a story typed up on the internet, but like a scan of an actual newspaper article that i'm able to print. the one from France needs to be written in French, and the one from the Philippines needs to be written in Tagalog. but most importantly, i need the English translations for these articles so i can explain to my teacher what they are about.

The Philippines is a former Spanish colony they have been ruled by Spain for 377 years they have Spanish surnames but only 2% to 3% of Filipinos have Spanish ancestry i'm just wondering why Filipinos don't speak Spanish why did they abandon the Spanish language does anyone know why Mexico like the Philippines is a former Spanish colony they have Spanish surnames but i don't know what percentage of Mexicans have Spanish ancestry but Mexicans never abandoned the Spanish language they still speak Spanish how come Filipinos don't speak Spanish anymore why did Filipinos abandon the Spanish language the Mexicans never did they kept the Spanish language they never abandoned the Spanish language does anyone know why.

I am planning to go the philippines in 9 months but I would like to be able to speak tagalog much more fluently. I can understand tagalog fairly well and have been studying for a while now. I have been listening to alot of songs, watch many movies, teleseryes and read filipino forums to become much more familiar with it.

even with all that it is still very hard to be able to speak spontaneously without much practice. Can anyone help me with this? I really want to come back to the philippines knowing I can have conversations with my family and really get to know them and have fun.

Thank you!

Any good recommendations on how to learn Tagalog? A way so that it is fun and sticks to my head? I realized I like learning the basics...the words and phrases used most in the Philippines as well as the sentence structure.

Any good translation websites?

Thanks!

I am in the Philippines with my filipina wife and her friends and family always speak to each others in Tagalog around me and I find it frusterating. Is it too rude of me to ask them to speak in English in my presants? They know both I only know English.

I AM FROM EUROPE AND I WANT TO LEARN TAGALOG...IS ANYONE WANTS TO ASSIST ME ON THIS ISSUIE HOW I CAN LEARN TO SPEAK TAGALOG JUST ONLY FOR DAILY SPEACHES...
WITH MY BEST REGARDS TO PHILIPPINES....

I am 24 years old. graduating Electronics Engineering student. But I want to join the US marines. I am physically fit and mentally fit. I have no good information here in the Philippines specially contacting a recruiter.Please help me. give me some info's specially also with that green card they talk about. Advice and info's people and thank you.