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sitataymo
Everyone says that the Philippines is a multicultural and multiethnic country just because it has been and continues to intermarry with others both at home and abroad.
If you fit in this description, what kind of dialect or language do you speak at home?
What other languages are you fluent at?
iMumble
English, that's it. Sadly.
Sonofvisayas
Im a multi lingual bastard.
sitataymo
I was just wondering if one can speak Illongo and are able to speak Ilocano would that be counted as two languages or dialect? Both are totally different but similar in some ways at the same time. Just wondering confused.gif
ham_let
2. English and Portuguese.

Embarassing and white-washed embarassedlaugh.gif icon_redface.gif I can type in tagalog on facebook though :P I just have trouble thinking in Tagalog on the spot. Same goes for Spanish, French and 'Lannang'.....
123Doy
Tagalog, English, Bisaya(Ilonggo, I can understand it fluently but I can't speak it), French, and currently learning Korean.
Sonofvisayas
QUOTE(123Doy @ Aug 27 2007, 08:56 PM) [snapback]3168355[/snapback]
Tagalog, English, Bisaya(Ilonggo, I can understand it fluently but I can't speak it), French, and currently learning Korean.

Hm c'est rare ca, donc on peut se converser en francais? y'a pas beacoup de pinoys qui parlent francais, meme ici au Quebec, seulment les ados je suppose.
lk4t3smoke
ilocano, tagalog, english and learning japanese right now (just the words in roman version.. not the letters because there's thousands of them)
calliezhou
english and filipino

i hope to learn korean and chinese...and maybe japanese....
Graham_Cracker07
QUOTE(sitataymo @ Aug 27 2007, 05:54 PM) [snapback]3167777[/snapback]
I was just wondering if one can speak Illongo and are able to speak Ilocano would that be counted as two languages or dialect? Both are totally different but similar in some ways at the same time. Just wondering confused.gif


They're actually different languages. Filipino just call them dialects for some reason. They're not mutually intelligible so that makes them different languages.
nanrisen
Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasenese, Viet and a little bit of Mandarin.
martin_nuke
I only speak one language which is Taglish
nanrisen
QUOTE(martin_nuke @ Aug 28 2007, 01:12 AM) [snapback]3169250[/snapback]
I only speak one language which is Taglish


That hardly counts as an officially recognized language.
KristlehI
I speak four languages.

English - but I hate punyetang conyo accent. conyo talaga. embarassedlaugh.gif
Filipino/tagalog rockon.gif
Negrense/Cebuano - halos lahat ng tao sa bahay galing negros oriental kaya di maiiwasan. hehehe
Fookien - product of 14 worthless years of chinese education.

not so good in the ff:
Mandarin -konting konti lang pero pwede naman kahit papano.
French - intermediate level na daw ako pero para akong retarded magsalita. embarassedlaugh.gif
Bahasa Indonesia - very easy to learn. biggthumpup.gif (kentut is fart in Bahasa Indonesia. otot is muscle embarassedlaugh.gif)
teiken
Languages: English, Pilipino, Thai and some Lao

Dialects: Tagalog, Cebuano
Datu Mandub
QUOTE(sitataymo @ Aug 27 2007, 04:09 PM) [snapback]3167718[/snapback]
Everyone says that the Philippines is a multicultural and multiethnic country just because it has been and continues to intermarry with others both at home and abroad.
If you fit in this description, what kind of dialect or language do you speak at home?
What other languages are you fluent at?


I speak 4 Philippine dialect and 3 foreign languages....I live alone, so at home I only communicate in zeros and ones.

coolershaka
English and French
iMumble
QUOTE(nanrisen @ Aug 28 2007, 04:25 AM) [snapback]3169375[/snapback]
That hardly counts as an officially recognized language.


That's probably gonna be the language of the Philippines in c. 2500 AD.
coolershaka
QUOTE(iMumble @ Aug 30 2007, 12:33 AM) [snapback]3173251[/snapback]
That's probably gonna be the language of the Philippines in c. 2500 AD.


No, after China replaces the USA as the next world superpower, we shall all be learning mandarin ;-)

Or maybe Russian....
123Doy
QUOTE(Sonofvisayas @ Aug 27 2007, 10:32 PM) [snapback]3168591[/snapback]
Hm c'est rare ca, donc on peut se converser en francais? y'a pas beacoup de pinoys qui parlent francais, meme ici au Quebec, seulment les ados je suppose.


Je ne peux pas converser en francais couramment parceque cet a ete 3 annees puisque je l'ai parle. Mon vocabulaire est tres tres limite.. bawling.gif Ou est-ce que tu habites au Quebec? La Montreal ou le Quebec? Cet ete, j'irai au Canada avec mes amis et ma professeur..
iMumble
QUOTE(coolershaka @ Aug 29 2007, 06:37 PM) [snapback]3173265[/snapback]
No, after China replaces the USA as the next world superpower, we shall all be learning mandarin ;-)

Or maybe Russian....


Probably the language of the Philippines by 2500 would be mixed with English, Tagalog, and Mandarin Chinese, and probably some Japanese in there too.

You'd be surprised that in 3000 AD some scientists predict that there would be only one language across the planet, as well as one moche-colored race. And that the single uniform future language would be Tagalog sounding to many present day speakers, mainly it's because of the mixing of the languages.

MommyStatus
ilocano, tagalog, english
MTA789
English & Bisaya. I can understand bisaya perfectly but have a little trouble speaking it sometimes. I need to find the words and say it in my mind before I actually say it.
neurotica
Tagalog (especially Batangas tagalog icon_smile.gif)
French (born and living in Paris)
English
Tamil(South indian language)

German(school knowledge, but can understand well when reading)
Hindi(Indian language, i'm not bad here)
Italian(can understand VERY basic sentences)
Korean(can read but don't understand it yet, gotta learn it when i have time)

Java/C/C++/Python/Ocaml/Php/VBA/HTML/C#...
and mum's emotions... lol
Sonofvisayas
QUOTE(123Doy @ Aug 29 2007, 06:48 PM) [snapback]3173302[/snapback]
Je ne peux pas converser en francais couramment parceque cet a ete 3 annees puisque je l'ai parle. Mon vocabulaire est tres tres limite.. bawling.gif Ou est-ce que tu habites au Quebec? La Montreal ou le Quebec? Cet ete, j'irai au Canada avec mes amis et ma professeur..

Montreal est au Quebec, tu voulais dire dans quelle ville j'habite? oui j'habite a Montreal, ça fait déja a plus pres 9 ans. Je parle français couramment mais c'est pas aussi bon que mon anglais, tagalog ou bisaya. Mais je pense que t'es capable de converser en français parce que t'as compris ce que je t'ai posé comme question et t'as repondu correctement,bien fait biggthumpup.gif
shiela
Language: English, Tagalog
Dialect: Surigaonon, Bisaya

Learning: Japanese, Korean, Mandarin embarassedlaugh.gif
badkitty
Filipino (fluent)
English (fluent)
Bikol (fluent)
Ilokano (conversant)
French (conversant)
German (very little, learned at school)
P. Bredahl
fluent in english and danish
learning japanese
understand/speak very little
swedish/norwegian/french/spanish/german/dutch
P. Bredahl
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neurotica
QUOTE(Sonofvisayas @ Aug 31 2007, 03:48 AM) [snapback]3176113[/snapback]
Montreal est au Quebec, tu voulais dire dans quelle ville j'habite? oui j'habite a Montreal, ça fait déja a plus pres 9 ans. Je parle français couramment mais c'est pas aussi bon que mon anglais, tagalog ou bisaya. Mais je pense que t'es capable de converser en français parce que t'as compris ce que je t'ai posé comme question et t'as repondu correctement,bien fait biggthumpup.gif


lol c'est marrant que vous utilisez le mot "converser"... icon_smile.gif
c'est vrai que les Québecois sont assez amusants lorsqu'ils parlent français hihi
kayOu
Filipino and English. currently learning Mandarin.

and hopefully learn:
Spanish
Japanese
and some other local dialects/languages

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Graham_Cracker07
English
Tagalog- I can pretty much understand it (spoken but not written), but I can't speak it.
Spanish- Currently learning it. I also took it in high school. It's really easy.
Sonofvisayas
QUOTE(neurotica @ Aug 31 2007, 09:18 AM) [snapback]3177216[/snapback]
lol c'est marrant que vous utilisez le mot "converser"... icon_smile.gif
c'est vrai que les Québecois sont assez amusants lorsqu'ils parlent français hihi

Oauis On est tres different, on utilise beacoup de mots anglisized. Mon tuteur de Français m'avait dit que le français Quebecois eu plein d'erreurs miais on es plus cool comme ça. biggthumpup.gif
iMumble
I really wanna learn French.
ham_let
QUOTE(Sonofvisayas @ Aug 31 2007, 05:50 PM) [snapback]3177758[/snapback]
Oauis On est tres different, on utilise beacoup de mots anglisized. Mon tuteur de Français m'avait dit que le français Quebecois ont plein d'erreurs miais on es plus cool comme ça. biggthumpup.gif

hahaha biggthumpup.gif

QUOTE
Tagalog- I can pretty much understand it (spoken but not written), but I can't speak it.

You should work on that! If you can already understand spoken Tagalog, you should pick it up pretty quickly, maybe within a few days or weeks. The only difficult part is decoding internet Tagalog. embarassedlaugh.gif
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