Men With Filipina Wives! Languages!!! [Archive]

James Hubbard

23rd July 2010, 03:57

Who here can speak some of their wifes' dialect?

Whether it be Bisaya/Tagalog/Illongo/Chavicano ... or any of the other many many dialects that there are to choose from

What I want to know is ...

-how much of that dialect do you know?
-have you ever had an interesting/funny moment with it?
-has it ever gotten you into trouble

For those of you who have never learnt any of your wife's mother-tongue (:hubbahubba:) .... is it because she lives in a place where everyone speaks english?

I look forward to all your thoughts

from

James "Cunning Linguist" Hubbard!

stevewool

23rd July 2010, 04:09

james cunning linguist,,,,,do you speak with a fork tonge james i have been told many women love that :icon_lol::icon_lol:

James Hubbard

23rd July 2010, 04:16

james cunning linguist,,,,,do you speak with a fork tonge james i have been told many women love that :icon_lol::icon_lol:

Gosh steve mate, lets not get off topic this early into it, i was hoping at least 20 posts before this hahahahahahaha!

I am actually interested in the answer :)

I know we have pm'd about it .. but its an interesting topic to chat about in the forum :D:xxgrinning--00xx3::xxgrinning--00xx3:

As for forked tongue, yes :D

that phrase makes me think of a song by "Mr Big" called "Road to Ruin" lolz

They like a forked tongue in a cunning linguist? I couldn't possibly understand what you're saying ;)

James "Constantly Befuddled" Hubbard!

stevewool

23rd July 2010, 04:22

good night james sleep well:xxgrinning--00xx3:

James Hubbard

23rd July 2010, 04:25

good night james sleep well:xxgrinning--00xx3:

cheers mate :) ... thanks for that :)

James "Pagod Na Pagod" Hubbard!

pennybarry

23rd July 2010, 06:25

I was shocked when I heard my husband speaking in tagalog.:omg:
He speak a little but he knew most nasty words. :cwm23:

It was his ex girlfriend whom he met in London taught him.:doh

When he was in Pinas with me, he bought a book with full of nasty words like: show me your xxxx in tagalog.:omg::angry: It was funny as he always mention some parts of the body he wants to see. :D:icon_lol:

davey

23rd July 2010, 08:45

Hi James, I can speak a little Tagalog and some Pampanga, but I wouldn't call myself fluent. I get myself in a mess sometimes when I presume I've understood what's been said because I've picked up a couple of words in a sentence:doh

I like the sound of the Visayan dialect as well. It sounds like they're singing when they talk. A bit like some of the Swiss when they speak German.

Another very important part of any Filipino dialect is respect - knowing when to include "po", "ate", "kuya" etc in the sentence.

aromulus

23rd July 2010, 10:30

HI like the sound of the Visayan dialect as well. It sounds like they're singing when they talk. A bit like some of the Swiss when they speak German.

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:crazy: ..???

It sounds as if they would be having a good old fashioned verbal scrap....:doh

-sillybilly-

23rd July 2010, 11:43

My husband has got a full list of nasty and rude words of tagalog! But never say it.
But the only words he can say are.."oo naman", mahal na mahal kita" and pandesal!" :D:D

James Hubbard

23rd July 2010, 12:14

I used to work with an Indian dude and the only Filipino he could say was "Malaki ang **** ko" lol ....

on second thought ... that's all he needs to say :icon_lol:

gecko_pikachu

23rd July 2010, 12:18

I can tell my husband is not so interested about how to learn to speak even just a few words of Tagalog or Ilocano (my dialect). He's just laughing at me when I speak my own with my family so it'll be a miracle if he does wake up and at least try his very best one day... :Cuckoo:

but d'you know what? he was pretending he was so keen about anything and everything when he went to the Philippines to first meet me. Little did I know he was just trying to win my heart.. bless him :)

jam07

23rd July 2010, 12:57

its really cute and funny when a westener is trying to speak tagalog :icon_lol: :cwm24: :doh :icon_lol: but it warms our heart as you take the time to learn and understand our language :heartshape1: :xxgrinning--00xx3:

Steve.r

23rd July 2010, 17:09

I would love to learn, but like with most things, I feel that to learn successfuly you need to be doing it everyday. If you are lucky enough to be with your mahal who is fluent, picking up words and phrases would be far easier and using them as you go aids learning. Unfortunately, spending precious time trying to learn over yahoo is not a real option (for me anyway) Being in Phils full time will certainly make me a more active learner.

James Hubbard

23rd July 2010, 17:13

ya

that's how i picked up bisaya

i had no choice ;)

only the doctors and lawyers spoke english lol

sars_notd_virus

23rd July 2010, 20:59

pennybarry

24th July 2010, 05:43

mahal kita,kamusta ka na?,masarap,huwag hawhawakan na:Cuckoo:..para po,salamat po

Barry will surely make reply if I tell such words:D

Mahal na mahal din kita, mabuti, hindi masarap kasi mabaho, ipakita mo hahawakan ko, walang anuman, o sige po paalam.
He knows that Mari.:omg::D

sars_notd_virus

24th July 2010, 08:39

Barry will surely make reply if I tell such words:D

Mahal na mahal din kita, mabuti, hindi masarap kasi mabaho, ipakita mo hahawakan ko, walang anuman, o sige po paalam.
He knows that Mari.:omg::D

:icon_lol:nearly feel off my chair laffing :icon_lol:
yes ate pen,my hubby is just starting to learn now we are together properly.,but it seems like he have a keen to understand naughty words first :crazy::icon_lol:

stevewool

24th July 2010, 08:50

its very hard to learn a new langauge if you are not in that country, i think you learn better that way , but hoping to speak in both tonges when emma is here , some english words emma dont understand , most words emma and her family know i dont , so we will be helping each other i hope, and i dont know any naughty words either:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:

James Hubbard

24th July 2010, 10:58

Speaking in tongues! :rolleyes:

stevewool

24th July 2010, 12:08

:icon_lol::icon_lol:

Ross

24th July 2010, 17:36

It makes me love my husband more when he is trying to learn tagalog becoz it is still slang i dont want to laugh as i may discourage him to try to learn:D:rolleyes:
few words like....mahal kita,kamusta ka na?,masarap,huwag hawhawakan na:Cuckoo:..para po,salamat po

indi ka magsiling sina kay mura kag buang nga tanga hehehehe..perte ka nga babaye oi..nagsaleg ka cegro kung huna huna moh mandato ka kay nakakaban ka sang enlgish lol..perete sa imo ka hambog nga babaye oi...hay ambot kung ogma may ara ka nga future..kung makahambal ka genselng nga ika ay sama sang hamlgdun nga baho pa sa lupa..kasabot ka ..! hehehehe:D sunod mag hunan huna ka kung kinsa imo genakalaban ha..aywa pag cge post kung wla kay idea sin -o ko,.,...gaga !:D:D

triple5

25th July 2010, 00:01

We have a pretty good deal going with the language thingy. If she ever comes to England we will speak in my native tongue, and whenever I'm there we will speak in English :D

I find it a laugh to learn new bisaya words/phrases (usually looked up online) then surprise her with it by dropping it into a conversation. Always gets a giggle :xxgrinning--00xx3: Except the phrase, "No! Me kuripot" :rolleyes:

sparky

25th July 2010, 00:42

spent 5 years- 2 of them in Thailand learning to speak Thai/Isaan then i married a Filipina:Erm:

so i give up and wait for them to speak english - which my wife is more than fluent in
however my advise is learn it on the quiet and hear what they are saying about you:yikes:

James Hubbard

25th July 2010, 01:17

We have a pretty good deal going with the language thingy. If she ever comes to England we will speak in my native tongue, and whenever I'm there we will speak in English :D

Sounds reasonable enough to me :D:D:xxgrinning--00xx3:

I find it a laugh to learn new bisaya words/phrases (usually looked up online) then surprise her with it by dropping it into a conversation. Always gets a giggle Except the phrase, "No! Me kuripot"

When i lived in the Visayas, I always used a deep bisaya (read - rarely used) word meaning the same as Kuripot! It's "Tihik" lolz

murag tihik ko, pero, tinuod walay ko kwarta! lolz!

sparky
spent 5 years- 2 of them in Thailand learning to speak Thai/Isaan then i married a Filipina

Suwanni Krap! :Hellooo:

James Hubbard

25th July 2010, 03:23

indi ka magsiling sina kay mura kag buang nga tanga hehehehe..perte ka nga babaye oi..nagsaleg ka cegro kung huna huna moh mandato ka kay nakakaban ka sang enlgish lol..perete sa imo ka hambog nga babaye oi...hay ambot kung ogma may ara ka nga future..kung makahambal ka genselng nga ika ay sama sang hamlgdun nga baho pa sa lupa..kasabot ka ..! hehehehe:D sunod mag hunan huna ka kung kinsa imo genakalaban ha..aywa pag cge post kung wla kay idea sin -o ko,.,...gaga !:D:D

Ya, hmm, it's interesting, ...

if you post in Bisaya ... hmmm

not many people here will "kasabot"

alayon day ... Kabalo ka mosulti ug english?

Everyone here speaks english, very few speak Bisaya. Could you please translate for us what you mean?

Thanks

JH:Hellooo:

fred

25th July 2010, 04:01

I found it easier to learn the swear words first and then work my way up from there.
As someone else said..I very rarely let on just how much I speak or understand when I meet people..Its almost like mind reading as they will waffle on about you as if you were not there..Both an entertaining and enlightening experience to say the least. I sometimes pretend to be a non English speaking Italian tourist...That really gets them going!!

James Hubbard

25th July 2010, 04:10

Fred, I am exactly the same!

Although, do u find it hard to maintain your ostensible ignorance of the language?

I found when living in the Phils that when pretending to be "clueless" I got very clued in ;)

but then people cottoned on, and it wasn't so easy!

what do u think?:icon_lol:

Languish

25th July 2010, 21:53

-how much of that dialect do you know?
-have you ever had an interesting/funny moment with it?
-has it ever gotten you into trouble

For those of you who have never learnt any of your wife's mother-tongue (:hubbahubba:) .... is it because she lives in a place where everyone speaks english?

My (future) Asawa speaks Tagalog and English fluently. I've begun studying it as of a few months ago during the beginning of our relationship and during my first visit to her in April. I am still at a basic level but my understand and grasp is good (in my opinion). I am studying hard though and i know its appreciated.

Funny moments? Yes - when i surprised some Filipinos in a restaurant. I was asked to join them in a photo and i was still eating some of the delicious food they had made me. As they were beckoning me, i garbled "Kain ako", which means i am eating (still). They were surprised i could even say such a thing - and at the right time. Maybe not funny as such - but interesting. Never in trouble! And i dont plan for that either!

Ross

25th July 2010, 22:57

James Hubbard

25th July 2010, 23:00

not bisaya :D:D its illongo...:D:D:icon_lol:

is Illonggo not a Visayan language and therefore Bisaya??

Yes, it's not Cebuano - that much is true - otherwise i would have understood it :)

sars_notd_virus

25th July 2010, 23:14

Ya, hmm, it's interesting, ...

if you post in Bisaya ... hmmm

not many people here will "kasabot"

alayon day ... Kabalo ka mosulti ug english?

Everyone here speaks english, very few speak Bisaya. Could you please translate for us what you mean?

Thanks

JH:Hellooo:

I bet she cant translate in english what she posted here James:NoNo:

indi ka magsiling sina kay mura kag buang nga tanga hehehehe..perte ka nga babaye oi..nagsaleg ka cegro kung huna huna moh mandato ka kay nakakaban ka sang enlgish lol..perete sa imo ka hambog nga babaye oi...hay ambot kung ogma may ara ka nga future..kung makahambal ka genselng nga ika ay sama sang hamlgdun nga baho pa sa lupa..kasabot ka ..! hehehehe:D sunod mag hunan huna ka kung kinsa imo genakalaban ha..aywa pag cge post kung wla kay idea sin -o ko,.,...gaga !:D:D

translation of what Ross just posted on here

don't say like that coz your like a stupid idiot,ur thinking that u married an english guy u are already rich! your a very boastful girl! i dunno if u have a future , u r more stinky than a soil???(and back to u Ross)dont post if u dont have any idea who i am here...gaga is tagalog meaning im looking like lady gaga ross?
hmmm,wonder why i translate it a little bit correct Ross?? because i am not stupid:D

and Ross,....mind your language its not the first time you did this in your co-forum members...hope all you have written comes back to you:xxgrinning--00xx3:....Bless You!!!

James Hubbard

25th July 2010, 23:17

Ah ok...

I don't really understand illonggo ... (even though i lived on the border of Negros Oriental/Occidental) ...

I just understand the Cebuano bisaya! lol

but ...

most people here don't understand any bisaya.

I won't comment on the content of the messages. It's none of my business.

meca

26th July 2010, 16:07

my partner is so adorable and very funny every time he tried to speak to me not in english i cant stop laughing. Because he used to have a relationship with a lady in visaya, so my partner some how learned some visayan words and when we first met he started talking to me in visayan dialect thinking ill me amazed but acutally i got confuse....coz i have no idea what he is talking about, i grew up in luzon and tagalog is my main language there... so for him talking to me in visayan dialect make me freeze at one moment and then burst out laughing...he is so cute...hahaha but now he is trying his best to learn how to speak tagalog and sometime he mixed up the tagalog words with visayan word... i still cant help my self laughing when he did that and he never take my laughing seriously he just laugh with me.... i also thought him how to say PO, told him its a means of respect... so he used his mixed visayan dialect with tagalog with PO... and as usual i end up burst out laughing...

meca

26th July 2010, 16:09

my partner is so adorable and very funny every time he tried to speak to me not in english i cant stop laughing. Because he used to have a relationship with a lady in visaya, so my partner some how learned some visayan words and when we first met he started talking to me in visayan dialect thinking ill me amazed but acutally i got confuse....coz i have no idea what he is talking about, i grew up in luzon and tagalog is my main language there... so for him talking to me in visayan dialect make me freeze at one moment and then burst out laughing...he is so cute...hahaha but now he is trying his best to learn how to speak tagalog and some times mixed up the tagalog words with visayan word... i still cant help my self laughing when he did that and he never take my laughing seriously he just laugh with me.... i also thought him how to say PO, told him its a means of respect... so he used his mixed visayan dialect with tagalog with po... and still i cant help my self bust out laughing... atleast he tried

James Hubbard

26th July 2010, 17:59

My wife who is Bisaya, when in Manila still sometimes uses Bisaya, coz she forgets lolz ...

sometimes i need to tell her that she needs to speak tagalog to be understood in manila hahah

it's easy to forget!

When i am trying to speak tagalog, i often get mixed up, so i'll say something like

"Gikapoy ko ...oops ... i mean pagod na pagod" lolz

James "Magbinisaya 'ta" Hubbard!

kenny

26th July 2010, 21:26

Malaki ang titi ko ... lol:laugher:

James Hubbard

26th July 2010, 21:37

Malaki ang titi ko ... lol:laugher:

hahaha, I am sure it is kenny. I'm sure it is! ;)

galing mo, pero bastos!

pero utok mo..... :crazy::Erm:

fred

26th July 2010, 22:13

James Hubbard

26th July 2010, 23:33

hahaha!

pennybarry

27th July 2010, 06:29

I bet she cant translate in english what she posted here James:NoNo:

translation of what Ross just posted on here

don't say like that coz your like a stupid idiot,ur thinking that u married an english guy u are already rich! your a very boastful girl! i dunno if u have a future , u r more stinky than a soil???(and back to u Ross)dont post if u dont have any idea who i am here...gaga is tagalog meaning im looking like lady gaga ross?
hmmm,wonder why i translate it a little bit correct Ross?? because i am not stupid:D

and Ross,....mind your language its not the first time you did this in your co-forum members...hope all you have written comes back to you:xxgrinning--00xx3:....Bless You!!!

Is she pickled? Need lots of winks? Lost the plot? The content is thick as two short planks!
I wish no more hoo-ha in the future!
keep your hair on girls!

Josieyam65

29th July 2010, 05:15

[QUOTE=James Hubbard;236621][B]is Illonggo not a Visayan language and therefore Bisaya??

Ilonggo and Cebuano are Bisayan dialects because Iloilo and Cebu belong in the Visayas region.
I am a Cebuana but i also understand Ilonggo.

James Hubbard

29th July 2010, 13:49

Amaw2008

31st July 2010, 17:41

Ako katoon gamay gamay Bisaya kada adlaw ug ako kasabot sulti sayon sa Bisaya. Learning Visayan is my hobby:xxgrinning--00xx3:

James Hubbard

1st August 2010, 02:02

Ako katoon gamay gamay Bisaya kada adlaw ug ako kasabot sulti sayon sa Bisaya. Learning Visayan is my hobby:xxgrinning--00xx3:

Kinahanglan revise ko, para trip sa October! :doh

The town where I lived for 1 year (and where i will be meeting with the family and stuff) -- a very tiny educated class there can speak english, otherwise, it's all Bisaya, all the time ;) A man's gotta fit in - especially when I'm a foot taller than everyone else there :yikes::yikes:

fred

1st August 2010, 03:18

A man's gotta fit in - especially when I'm a foot taller than everyone else there.

Crickey.. Only a foot?...That`d make you what?? 5ft 2"?? :icon_lol:

jam07

1st August 2010, 04:22

it would be great if I know how to speak and understand bisaya (my papa is from romblon) but I grew up here in makati so I dont know how to speak bisaya :doh :NoNo: :bigcry: :doh

KeithD

1st August 2010, 10:50

it would be great if I know how to speak and understand bisaya (my papa is from romblon) but I grew up here in makati so I dont know how to speak bisaya :doh :NoNo: :bigcry: :doh
Well as us English folk can't tell the difference you should just say you know all the Philippine languages as we wouldn't have a clue :Cuckoo:

jam07

1st August 2010, 11:03

Well as us English folk can't tell the difference you should just say you know all the Philippine languages as we wouldn't have a clue :Cuckoo:

:icon_lol: :icon_lol: :icon_lol:

aposhark

1st August 2010, 11:58

I do my best with learning some Visayan words.

I speak Spanish fairly well and that helped me a great deal as Bisayan has many words that are similar, much more similar than Tagalog for example.

My wife kept on using the word "Boang" to me and laughing at the same time. She said it was just one of her words she liked.

When I met an Fil-Brit couple the other week, his wife said that same word to him and he told me it meant "crazy".

Always good to mix with other Fil-Brit couples, you may find out words that your wife would rather you didn't.

My lovely wife needs to use another (secret) one now :icon_lol:

James Hubbard

1st August 2010, 13:46

Hehehe

Mike, I think my time living in the Philippines ... then observing people back here - effectively puts me off fil-brit folk :icon_lol::doh

Anyway, the majority of the Fils I know here are tagalog anyway - so yet another dialect I am having to learn so I can fit in hahaha!

Kabalo ko mosulti murag gamay lang ug bisaya, pero, enough to get around na lang! lolz!

The place where I lived ... the only people who could speak English properly were the doctors, dentists and lawyers ... and I didn't want to "frequent" those particular professionals! lol!

So learning bisaya was a must for me! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

James Hubbard

1st August 2010, 13:48

Crickey.. Only a foot?...That`d make you what?? 5ft 2"?? :icon_lol:

:laugher:

Lancashirelad

12th August 2010, 16:56

Ako magsalita tagalog kaunti lang. Before i met my fiancee i already had some pinoy friends, so i was learning a little Tagalog, now im trying to learn Bisaya so that when i stay at moms i can surprise my new family! but it hard learning online :(

bher

13th August 2010, 17:03

[QUOTE=James Hubbard;235691][B]Who here can speak some of their wifes' dialect?

Whether it be Bisaya/Tagalog/Illongo/Chavicano ... or any of the other many many dialects that there are to choose from

What I want to know is ...

-how much of that dialect do you know?
-have you ever had an interesting/funny moment with it?

i remember my husband bought a tagalog-english dictionary so that he have some ideas what the people are talking about.. the thing is im from pampanga ( central luzon) our dialect here is KAPAMPANGAN and wen wer looking for dictionary but theres no one like that.. but hes still reading it! here in pampanga esp in angeles they speak TAGALOG with their customers so my husband roughly understand a little.. but he's been here few times already so he know and he can speak a little KAPAMPANGAN... like wat other friends here said he learned BAYAD PO, PO- OPU in kapampanga.. PARA PO, BAYAD PO, MAGKANO PO?, SALAMAT, MEKENI means come here, ALI means no, ALA means nothing.. and he also like me teaching him kapampangan/tagalog bad words,. funny esp wen he say it and the accent.. then evrytime he makes mistakes on his sentences i correct them.. thats y im proud to my husband, he makes effort to speak my dialect and speak with my family and with our neighbors....

keithAngel

14th August 2010, 19:02

Im also intending to imerse myself more in Cebuano on my next visit Ive got a lot of vocabulary but the sentence structure and those pesky ang ..ug...sa markers are the biggest drawer back as where these are placed tells you what the focus of the sentence is

The other tricky bit is that the words are often shortened so even learning the correct grammer (if you can find anyone who knows what that is) is only the first step

Personaly i prefer the inductive method for learning language much like we did as children (lucky that as there are scarce written resourses and what there is is often contradictory) so Im hoping to spend more time hard wiring whilst gazing whistfully at my two toys lol

My mobile internet is not liking the forum at all im typing into a box one letter wide and the first post of every thread appears the same ah well in a little over 6 weeks i shall be back and conversly here more

Andy

17th August 2010, 13:54

My wife's 1st language is Illongo (she also speaks Cebuano & Tagalog), but she says it makes sense for me to learn Tagalog. I have a genuine desire to learn it, but it's so difficult! I know some words and phrases, but that's about it. I've bought several books over the years, but personally I learn best in a "classroom environment", rather than by myself from books. I wish it was taught at the local evening classes.