In my new job I work with a bunch of filipinos, young and old. Since i speak REALLY crappy tagalog i always want to improve it so I told them i could sort of speak it and understand . I was doing just fine until this one time were this tagalog kid was trying to tell me to do something but he was speaking so fast that i couldnt understand him,i was like

"Huh?? ano??pasiencia indi ta ka ma intiende??

He got really mad and he ended up throwing the garbage himself LOL. On his way back he was still pissed off and said.

"Segorado ka na Pilipino ka??"

In a really serious tone Though so i just told him.

"Tsakto ka Indi Pilipino, Negreses ako".

LOL ha ha ha

Here in the U.S. - I have encountered Tagalog-speaking Filipinos. Many of them open up a conversation with "Are you Filipino?". Then I would reply "Yes, I am". Then he would immediately say "Uyyyy, salamat naman po at Pinoy ka rin, mabuti't nakatagpo ako ng kababayan dito sa America, taga saan po kayo sa atin?" <~~~ speaking in rapid Tagalog. And then I would calmly say "I am sorry, but I don't speak Tagalog. I am from the Visayas area... apan ikaw, - maka-istorya ba ka ug maka-sabot ug Cebuano or Visayan aron pwede ta mag-istoryahay gamit ang usa ka Filipino dialect?"

Then - Boink! <~~~ I always get a confused look on his face.

You see the problem is: Many Tagalog-Speaking Filipinos that I have met in the U.S. always assumes that all Filipinos here know how to speak Tagalog. That is not the case.

This one pinay ask me "are you filipino" and i said "yes" Than she started speaking
Tagalog(super fast) and i said myself "what the hell did she say?" 2


I told her i'm from Cebu and i speak bisaya(with pride). She looked at me with a blank stare.

Haha, when I first came here, I felt so lost. I could only speak very limited English so I try finding Filipinos to talk to and I often times find myself the one asking them if they're Filipino or that they speak Tagalog. I was very disappointed for a while because they all seemed to be born here in the U.S. and spoke Tagalog little to none....until I met these guys who were undergoing the same problem as I was ^_^

I worked graveyard shifts at this last year and there was an old manong from cebu who spoke no english or tagalog. But I tried talking to him in Ilongo(hiligaynon) anyway and he in cebuano LOL. It was amazing how we could pretty much understand each. He was a funny guy always talking about chicks and his misadventures back home like how he was held against his own will by a chinese family after he got thier daughter pregnant HAHAHA .

The first time I met my PE instructor, I asked him if he speaks Tagalog, but in one of the prior cases, he's Bisaya.

Mabuhi ang Cebuano! (lol, I'm not trying to worsen the regionalizm).
Mabuhi pa gyud ang Boholano...

Anyone wanna try and speak Tagalog in my home island(Cebu)? 2



I've notice here in U.S there are many association of ethnic groups from the
philippines. Maybe they should(gov) make English the official language instead
of Filipino or Pilipino.

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they hate what they call "imperial manila"

I could speak Tagalog,Ilongo and Visaya just like most ppl in Mindanao....

I guess i won't have a prob for now he he he...

This is why there are still times that pinoys tend to beat each other up, because of this, "regionalism". There are even fraternities just for Visayans, for Ilokanos, that sucked coz, we are all pinoys right. I'm an Ilokano - and I take pride in that, but I don't bash other pinoys from where they came from. I was born in Manila but grew up in Lanao Del Norte in Mindanao. Had Visayan, Davaoeneo, Muslim, Ibanag, Chavakano classmates there and we all get along fine. I guess as filipinos that we should study each of our regions dialects, so as to understand each other well, or at least have a national language that all filpinos will use outside our communities.

isn't there a national language already? lol..filipino?..everyone should just speak tagalog hehe..even me lol..i should learn

oo nga... kaya asan na ba ung thread na lahat lang tagalog/Filipino ginagamit? buhayin nating muli!

Officially Pilipino is the National Language of the Philippines... but a big percentage of the nation speaks/understands Visayan/Cebuano. No need to be regionalistic but Pilipino - which is always mistaken as "Tagalog" should not be the National Language of the Philippines. The National Language should be the one most spoken or used.

But the native tagalog speakers are like 21 million and filipinos with some form of education had to study it. Exchanging tagalog with cebuano wont help.

Visayan dialects sound way better then tagaolog.

The government is manipulating the numbers to make it appear as tho Tagalog is the leader in terms of numbers.

the "Filipino" language always has a "(Tagalog)" next to it

I dont know about that but to me tagalog is really easy on the ears, they sound like thier singing somtetimes lol. Visayan languages on the other hand are spoken faster and mas "Tig Ah" than tagalog. Almost like a warrior tongue hehe.

Taglish n lng....

you're only counting on the number of speakers... there's still literary works, etc in which case, tagalog has more compared to bisaya.. anyway, it's not a problem. visayans speak way better english than tagalogs! hehehehe

D@mn straight, warrior tougne.
I don't know I just like the way it sounds.

those Visayans

Pangasinans

eJay1 you're busted so stop pretending!

LOL there you go being cuckoo again, LOL a majority of filipinos who migrate to North America come from Luzon and second comes Visayas.

eJay1, why are you changing the subject all of a sudden? I was talking about you and not some migration...

Why do you keep calling me that??
LOL you are cuckoo for sure.

All the info and post you do are way too easy to figure out who you are!
Im not cuckooo, you're cuckoo for denying it..

help in what?

Aha, mas "Tig Ah" di-ay? LOL. If Visayan tongues are "warrior-like" and tough, how much more the fist? Woot woot!

Sakto ka bay! Mabuhi ang mga bisaya!!!! Mabuhi ang taga-Mindanao!!!!

Bisaya is the widely spoken language so Bisaya should be our national language..

let's have many national languages, like India

Then we will have to include every native dialect on our textbook, since we need to know how to speak our national languages.. lol.. I think that would be harder than changing our national language to Bisaya..

no, just the dominate language in the region. and english to communicate to other groups(in India many ppl use English to communicate to other ppl who speak a diff. language)

I think we must federalized the Phil before it happens. And it sounds like English is then our national language. Poor Pinoy, no language identity.

Changing the national language to what end really?? to make us visayans feel better about ourselves...how selfish.

bahasa indonesia has a much worst "mother tongue" percentage than tagalog

wikipedia:

It is not selfishness, I never think of that thing. I was just thinking that maybe if our national language is natively spoken by the majority of the Filipino our country will prosper. No offense but I think Cebuano speakers is more talented, honest and strong than the tagalog counterparts.. peace!!!!

But dont' worry it would never happen unless I will become a dictator of the Phil.. Lol 2

@filipinoy
What happened to Indonesia now??

LOL and I thought i was regionalistc. And yes i am a bit offended since im not cebuano j/k.

But I thought you're from Visayas..Im sorry if you're a tagalog speakers.. peace..

LOL I am from western visayas and we dont speak cebuano.

So i guess you have nothing to be offended about since i was referring to tagalog people.

im from mindanao... and i speak bisaya... also tagalog is used only as the basis for the national language, in FILIPINO, they also added parts of bisaya ilonggo etc... its just FILIPINO! i dont care if its mostly composed of tagalog as long as it unites all the filipinos, I think its one of the more prominent cultural identities that filipinos have since filipinos look like other asians, the only way u know that he's pinoy is that he speaks filipino! except ofcourse for the fil-ams, fil-(insert nationality).

basta MABUHAY ANG PINOY!!!!!!!!!!!!! PINOY TANG TANAN!!!!

happen to wat...??

i'm just comparing, cuz u guys r saying that there's more bisaya speakers than tagalog

^^
even the tagalogs will tell you there are more bisaya speakers.

I was trying to say that maybe if our national langauge is natively spoken by the majority our country will prosper.. well thats only a theory..

Wow!!....when i fist came here no one really talked much about bisayas..now we have a revival of the bisaya peepz....kinda brings tears of joy to my eyes.

it has always been my belief that the bisaya people have always stood behind the tagalogs when it came to running the country....i think that the country needs some strong new perspective and that its time for the bisaya people to step up to the podium...and bring new a new perspective on how to run the government..and $hitz we got enough people to win. :genius:

Sakto!!!! Mabuhi ang mga bisaya!!! Mabuhi ang mga bisdak!!!