He did post that a couple of months ago ???

I guess he has discovered that when Filipino's get together, such as party, baptism, even though they invite a few English friends, the Filipino's all talk there own languages, leaving us English speakers feeling like unwanted idiots, and out of place.

Ignonance we call, and every Filipino argees with me once I've pointed it out to them.

I have nothing against it, but if Filipino's do invite 'foreign' language speakers to an event, they need to make them feel welcome, as it's bloody irratating.

Even the wife gets piddled off with some of them, we left 3 parties after 10 minutes last year, so I just don't bother anymore.

Small groups of Filipino's are OK, as we can butt in then, and my wife is forever telling others to speak English when in front of me as it's in polite not to.

I can speak a little Tagalog myself, but it can be a pain to learn with so many diferrent dialects depending from where you come from.

Still, we are not all perfect, and Filipino's are still the sexiest breed on the planet ;D
The best thing for you both is to learn foreign language then when you both are in a group of my fellow Filipino people who speaks their own dialect, you and your wife can then communicate using that language that none of them can understand. From there you will see how they'll react.