What Languages you understand because you learned or because it is inteligible to your mother tongue.


1st
Northern Tagalog-my first lingo
English-My second languages
2nd
Cebuano or any sub branch of Visayan-i can understand texts in visayan but there are still words i can't grasp the same thing can be said to Bicolano as well and the grammar is similar to my first language.
Kapampangan-from dictionaries and allot of the words of poetic tagalog(makakatang salita) are actually kapampangan and the words in my province which is rizal and the grammar is similar to my first language.
3rd
Ibanag
read about it in dictionary and I kinda figured it out and the grammar is similar to my first language.
Itawis
read about it in dictionary and I kinda figured it out and the grammar is similar to my first language.
Pangasinan
I can understand some of it and the grammar is similar to my first language.
4rth
Ilocano
Hokkien
Cantonese
Mandarin
5th
Indonesian

^^ Funny. Grasping a few words does NOT entitle you to say that you can understand the language. Actually, Tagalog isn't that different from Bisaya and they can "sort of grasp the words" to understand each other. So, wouldn't your definition of "understanding language" be useless because of such?


If I happen to read a Swahili dictionary, do you honestly think I could understand it? It's not enough. The best way to learn is to immerse with the language.

But anyway to answer your question, I'm fluent in:

English
Tagalog
Hiligaynon
Kinaray-a
Bisaya

and I can "grasp" some words in

Spanish

and I plan to take up as my foreign language

Mandarin

I got the ones in the second category because of the same underlying grammar not just by reading dictionaries which had the words....



Visayan is like Hokkien a macrolanguage with many branches...

actually our languages have a dialect continuum that blurs the linguistic borders except in cases such as separated by rivers or seas but bikol and visayan had not separated from it's continuum they maintained it.

just asking...what do you mean by bisaya...aren't hiligaynon and kinaray-a a bisaya?

I bet you Suzuka can go to China and just be your tour guide LOL>

several.

Cebuano - 1st language and current language
Tagalog - my 2nd language but going down hill
English - my 2nd and current language
Tausug - I can understand it can't speak it though
Spanish - I can speak a bit of it and I am currently taking it up as a Foreign Language at my high school

Tagalog and English only. I can understand a bit of Indonesian

I live in Rizal, but for some reason, my classmates who were manileños/as cannot understand some of the words I use when I speak in Tagalog.

Like which words?

makarat and buse. Though I think buse is a slang one...

engrish

Kankanaey and Ibaloi - dialect used by some Igorots...
Tagalog,
English
took French
taking Japanese
a little bit of spanish...b/c i needed it for my volunteering...

1st language: English
2nd languages: Cantonese, Mandarin
Currently learning: Spanish (Castellano)

I'm not Pinoy/Tsinoy so I don't know any Tagalog (bar a few basic phrases), but I would really love to learn it one day. I've heard it a lot since my early childhood so I find the language really comforting.

Bisaya (Cebuano based) -- 100%

Tagalog ----98%

Ilocano --- if spoken by ordinary live people ---65% , if on TV 20%

English ---- Maybe 85%

Kalagan ----- I used to speak this but lost it at around 7 years old.

Fukien/Amoy (Philippine Variety)---- My parents say I could speak it as a child. My older sisters could still understand it.

English,Tagalog,Bisaya and Italian at a fluent level.
Mandarin and spanish quite good.
Cantonese and French at beginer level.

Wa Si Hokkien Lang...

Tagalog- I don't speak it anymore and when I do, I have an accent (I moved to Canada)
English: I don't care what people say, this is the easiest language in the world to learn (apart from your mother tongue)
French: Taking it in school

You mean to say Visayan. You see there are numerous languages in Visayas and one of the most widely spoken is Bisaya, which is spoken in Central and parts of Eastern Visayas. Hiligaynon is the language spoken by the Ilonggos, the people from Iloilo, Capiz, Guimaras and Negros Occidental. Kinaray-a is another language spoken in Antique and many parts of Iloilo.

As an Ilonggo, I refuse to be grouped with Bisaya because we have our own identity and not under another ethnic group.

Filipino

English

Tagalog

Taglish

Englog

That means you can understand Pangasinense as well.....

Pangasinan- My parents speak that. I can understand 100 % and reply in paglish.
Ilocano- My neighbors in Guam spoke that and I understand 75 %.
Spanish- In Los Angeles, you better understand spanish because half the fu-ken signs are in spanish.
Chamorro- In Guam, they teach you the language very young.

Languages I wish I understood are Japanese, Italian, and Arabic.

SERIOUS SHIZ! i live 10 miles from the border!

freakin people speak to u spanish first then when i tell em no entiendes, then they speak english anyways wtf

fluent in :

TAGALOG

ENGLISH

BAHASA INDONESIA

SPANISH

PORTUGUESE

AND 70% OF FRENCH IF PRONOUNCED SLOWLY...

english

tagalog

illocano

I'm wondering if it's possible to hold a conversation with someone fluent in Bahasa Indonesia/Melaysia if you speak Tagalog and still be able to understand each other for the most part? Obviously the two languages are very similar; one site stated they were 80% cognate.

I don't think so. Looking at Malaysian language sites maybe 1 out of 50 words at the most is the same.

Maybe you can pick up some words if it's written. But spoken?...seems impossible.... because they pronounce the words differently.

When they speak though, I could hear them say "A-KU".

I understand Spanlog and Taglish

I wish I knew how to speak Bicol since my mom can speak it. Pops dialect sounds way harder loll

nope...they dont use too much conjugations and or the past and present tense...you just understand what would they say if you knows about 50% of their language...

Saan ka natuto ng Tagalog? At bakit Tagalog lang ang alam mo sa mga salitang Pinoy? Saan ang probinsya mo?

WALA KAMING PROBINSYA...MANILENYA AT MANILENYO MGA MAGULANG KO...MGA KAMAG ANAK NAMIN PURO Q.C AT MAKATI...MATATAWAG KO BA NA PROBINSYA NAMIN YUNG BAGUIO KUNG MAY NAMAN LANG ANG ERPAT KO NA MGA APARTMENT DUN....???

Wala kayong probinsya kung ganun.

Mga apartment ng erpat mo sa Baguio?......Bakit hindi "namin"...... Ang erpat mo lang ba ang nagmamay-ari sa mga apartment?

Kasali ka rin du'n......pati mommy mo kasali rin.

TAGALOG
ENGLISH
NIHONGO

ha??? ang linaw nang nakalagay na """"namin""" dun eh...and besides hindi ko matatawag na kasama ako sa may-ari...dahil sa kanya nakapangalan..hindi rin naman sa mother ko dahil hindi din nakapangalan sa kanya yun...ang mali lang dun yung NAMAN...DAPAT NAMANA YUN...

I know
English from computer term to medicine
Tagalog
Mandarin and Fookien

Korean if spoken slowly
Japanese if they speak slowly

French, I perfected an exam on French
Spanish, if it is spoken slowly

I STUDY IN FRONT OF THE PICTURE OF BEAUTIFUL MODELS SO I CAN PERFECT IT EASILY.

awtts, ahahaha... approve!