We have a friend from Samar Island who is quite good n Spanish. My wife thinks they speak Spanish there. Can anyone tell us if they do, or if not, why a person from there might be able to speak Spanish well ?
Thanks, John
We have a friend from Samar Island who is quite good n Spanish. My wife thinks they speak Spanish there. Can anyone tell us if they do, or if not, why a person from there might be able to speak Spanish well ?
Thanks, John
Samar? As far as I know, they speak Waray or Bisaya in Samar.Originally Posted by johncar54
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It may be Samal Island -- where your friend is speaking in chavakano...
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
old Filipinos are good in spanish as 10 years ago it as still a part of the curriculum. But most who knew how to speak spanish are from Mindanao and southern visayas
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mrs T is pilipino spanish heinz 59she might be able to tell you i think her ancestors came from the zambawonga area
yup...one of those is my great great grandma taken 1915mrs T is pilipino spanish heinz 59
There once was a girl that believed in mankind, that there was still honor and chivalry that existed in everyone of us. She also believed that everyone deserves a chance to prove oneself individually and hoped that the courtesy would be returned. That girl is dead now, and all that is left is her shadow. To give one a chance to prove thyself is a chance for you to become dwindled in the dissappointment.
yup...one of those is my great great grandma taken 1915
i wished it was because i am trying to trace her relations as she was left without any parents from 2 months old all we know is her mothers name and an area where they came from
its a long story
sorry to hear that Dave. you may check the national statistics office and surely they can track it down if you have her mother's full name. the search will only get complicated if there will be a few others with the same name and having been a local of the same place. otherwise, they can give you further details and perhaps even whereabouts of the person.i wished it was because i am trying to trace her relations as she was left without any parents from 2 months old all we know is her mothers name and an area where they came from
its a long story
"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Spaniards colonized our country for hundreds of years and we have adapted their language. Our ancestors, grandparents learned how to speak a little. Some parts of Philippines speaks some spanish like the chavakanos.
It was part of our curriculum in 1980 backward. It was just abolished before 1990.
Spanish is one of my favourite subject in high school and college.
I can speak good spanish way back 1980's and wishing to refesh here but no college here offering that language.
No spanish in Samar,but down in Zambo they speak Chavacano which they describe as low-quality spanish,I got a friend who teaches at Ataneo De Zamboanga and her spanish is perfect.
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
As i know samar is waray not spanishlike buenos dias,gracias,kutsa,tinidor,una dos tres
Some old people in samar speak ...
waray, english and spanish as thats what they have learn at school when their we're young, but maybe in a certain part of samarand they dont talk much tagalog but they do understand it but still they will answer you in english or waray or spanish.
hope that helps .... but don't worry they speak in english than in tagalog lol, we went there last may and my husband like it but
Thanks to everyone who replied.
I am still at a loss to know why my wife's friend speaks good Spanish, although maybe the answer lies somewhere in the fact my wife's Spanish is not very good so to her, her friend's Spanish may sound better than it really is!!
No. the dialect in Samar is waray-waray or bisaya, can understand tagalog but hardly spoken but some words are spanish.
Im waray-waray by the way and we do have lots of spanish words.
They use waray or bisaya in Samar
Everytime we visit my relatives in Zamboanga or they visit us in Cebu my nose is bleeding
LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
Its hard having loads of relatives with diffrent dialects, i myself suffered nose bleeds everytime i meet relatives who speaks other dialect. I can understand bisaya but hardly speak it good thing tag is taught in school and my dad is tag helps alotThey use waray or bisaya in Samar
Everytime we visit my relatives in Zamboanga or they visit us in Cebu my nose is bleeding
Hi! I think they have learned it from there family or school as some part here in Philippines still continuing to learn on it... I know few words too
Filipinos learning Spanish have a tremendous head start. There are hundreds of nouns in Tagalog which are Spanish words. I am sure that is because when the Spanish colonised the Philippines, everything then introduced, which was not there before, became known by it's Spanish name.
The same thing happened with the various invasions and colonisations of UK, thus in English there are words from Latin (from the Romans) German, French and Norse, although many of those words were originally Germanic too.
You're right!
Like the word Kumusta (tagalog for how are you?) It was derived from spanish term como esta? como esta usted? sounds similar.
Como esta usted? Muy bien gracias y usted?
Donde vive es tu? Yo vivo en la Sta Rosa.
Como se llama tu? Yo llama es penny
Yo soy muy guapa !!! eheheheh
I still remember how to cojugate vebs
Thats why we can easily learn spanish.
Chinese mandarin is quite harder than spanish
Mandarin is incredibly hard,it took me four and a half years to learn to swear fluently in cantonese but Mandarin was beyond me,your a linguist Pen,a female Rizal
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
Thanks Tawi! you must exercise your tongue to learn mandarin by pronouncing ching chong chang cheche, chuchang, full of chhhhh.Mandarin is incredibly hard,it took me four and a half years to learn to swear fluently in cantonese but Mandarin was beyond me,your a linguist Pen,a female Rizal
But my nose was bled when I visited Holland
Their language is full of krrrrrrrr
As well as Deutse/german language. It made my nose bled
I learned some japanese tooI feel it is the most easiest
Japanese probably is easy to learn in comparrison to somewhere like North Shields dialect
Sometimes you're flush and sometimes you're bust, and when you're up, it's never as good as it seems, and when you're down, you never think you'll be up again. But life goes on.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the passion that she shows to the outside world.
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