Quote Originally Posted by grahamw48 View Post
On a day to day basis OBVIOUSLY Filipinos speak and write their own language (just look on their facebook pages).

That will never change. Why on earth should it ?

Let us all be grateful that they DO learn English at school, otherwise a lot of us would not now have Filipina partners.

Also, 600,000 jobs would not have been created in call centres in recent years.

Quite honestly it's nothing to do with us what the Filipino government and people decide to do in their education system.

As far as I can see, they have reached a happy medium where the teaching of languages is concerned, and certainly well in advance of what happens in our country.
Maybe I have met the wrong Filipinos, Graham. The ones that I have, tended to aspire to improving their English, liberally lace their Tagalog with English and communicate in Facebook in both. Same on Philippine TV.
Like I said, I did have a problem with the older generation over there but that is exactly the point...the older generation have been left behind a bit in the path of what appears to be inevitable progress.