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.

Im Spanish (from Spain),but cant speak it..but i hear it everyday from
my family.
My friend told me that Tagalog sounds alot like Spanish,I beileved him,
But when i went to his party there were many of his filipino family there.
I heard them speaking tagalog and it never sounded like Spanish one bit.
It just sounded like screaming chickens with defined expression.
Well it sounded alot like Indonesians or Malaysian

Yes, I both speak Tagalog(my 1st language) and English very fluently.

Well, I want to learn Spanish as a third language, because I have alot of Hispanic Friends here in my school. And Spanish is the 2nd most spoken language in the US, while Tagalog is the sixth. English is the First.

Go to this site, It has all the Tagalog loanwords from different races.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tagalog_loanwords

Please recommend any good softwares, websites. That'll help me understand Spanish. )

Oh and Tagalog is not a race, it's one of the members of the Filipino languages. And Filipino is a race, and Philippines or Filipinas is a country named after King Felipe II of Spain. (alot of people mistake Tagalog as a race)

Please answer guys )

Im a Filipino living abroad. Its wierd to discover that different people call each country and each people differently. Example:We Filipinos call
Philippines- Pilipinas(Pilipino,Pinoy)
USA - Estados Unidos(Amerikano)
UK - Britania(Inglis)
Spain - Espania(Espanyol)
Japan - Hapon(Hapones)
China - Tsina(Intsik)

And as for Koreans:
Philippines -Pilipin(Pilipin saram)
USA -Miguk(Miguk saram)
UK -Yungguk(Yungguk saram)
Germany - Tuggil (Tuggil saram)
Japan - Ilbon(Ilbon saram)
China -Chungguk(Chungguk saram)

Can you name some like what I did above?

Spain invaded Philippines for more than 300 years and taught them spanish. And spanish is a romance language. Just curious whether filipino should be considered to be a romance language?

Dialect- Linguistics. a variety of a language that is distinguished from other varieties of the same language by features of phonology, grammar, and vocabulary, and by its use by a group of speakers who are set off from others geographically or socially.

Like English in the UK and in the US; or Spanish in Spain and in Argentina. They speak the same language but different dialect.

Now how could these be similar?

(good morning)

Tagalog: Magandang umaga
Ilocano: Naimbag nga bigatyo
Hiligaynon/Ilonggo: Maayong buntag
Kapampangan: Mayap ayabak

They clearly differ in phonology, grammar, and VOCABULARY. I think the Commission on the Filipino Language should have known better before declaring each indigenous "dialects" as dialects. It just makes most Filipinos unaware of what a dialect really is.

Do you agree?

Lots of tagalog (filipino language) words are almost the same as some french words. Here's some french that sounds like tagalog:

TURN - le coup (liko)
LITER - le true (litro)
BEHIND - le coud (likod)
FIVE - le ma (lima)

What was our original language and how did some french words get into it? I thought Spain was the only country who influenced the Philippines.