AMERICAN Ranked the BEST ENGLISH Speaking Country in Asia - Foreigners Reaction

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[ethylenramos]

Right, we have a new HR lady. She is Filipino… She is so smart. Mabuhay from California

[rubyhalverson]

In the Philippines we use English from Elementary to College and English is our second Language. The only subject that we used our language is Filipino subject but for us Filipino subject is harder than English, just like the words "pararila" "pangatnig" "pandiwa" "pang-abay" etc.. etc.. etc... and sometimes we translate the words into English to know what's the meaning of it😁😁😊 My English major teacher said "if you don't know how to speak English, you cannot talk the world, for English is the main Language in the world". I have one teacher when she called you and asked something you need to speak English and if you can't you will remain standing😊☺. Now I'm living in the US and when I came over here the family and friends of my husband was surprised that I know how to speak English☺☺☺🥰

[leapdrive]

I’ve travelled a little bit through Singapore. It is apparent that they use those with some English fluency on services (police, taxi drivers, etc.) which is a good thing, but they don’t reflect the average fluency of all Singaporeans. Needless to say, it doesn’t follow Singaporeans are better than Filipinos in English which they wrongly proclaim often.

It also too obvious that most Southeast Asians (including Singaporeans) speak English with American pronunciation, not British, and considering that Singapore and Malaysian were under British rule, one can only conclude they learned English from Philippine teachers. Yet, they won’t mention this fact that it’s the Philippines who have taught them much of their curriculum.

Fun fact: the Brits and the Dutch colonizers do not have an equivalent of the Catholic teaching missionaries the Philippines have had from the the Spaniards and Americans. Many of them run great schools around the world (the Jesuits, Christian Brothers, Dominicans, St. Bridget’s Order, Maryknoll, Franciscan and so much more). The Spanish missionaries converted and educated the Filipinos for 333 years of their colonization while the American missionaries were there almost 100 years until the late 1990s. Their schools of course have contributed so much to the Philippine public school system as well.

As a youngster, I have known many of these SE Asian schools have consulted with Filipino school administrators. They’ve have gotten education from the Philippines, and they have hired innumerable Filipino school teachers for their schools up to the present. Yet, not one of them would mention these facts. Moreover, they propagate this fact that the Philippine school system is the lowest in their ranking system system as published by UK ranking firms and favoring their own ex-colonies. It takes big 🏀🏀 to make such proclamations.

The presiding woman in the video was right about her assessment that the Filipinos have the best English in the region, and it’s based on her own personal survey.

[wakay]

I had a Korean-American boss who was always amazed that young and old, here and there, Filipinos can speak English ❤

[ruselleguiangpineofficial]

That's really the accent of Filipinos, the Filipino English Accent is aggressive because of speaking properly and people can understand it so that's what it's for.❤❤❤

[delisyus]

I think, it’s harder to detect the country of origin when Filipinos and Indonesians speak English because it’s a lot closer to the American accent and we speak it in a more casual way. I find Indian English very formal and stilted sometimes and I don’t think it’s because of British influence and rather more like a textbook-type of having learned it.

It’s also a little ironic though that Korea for example sends their people to learn English here in the PH and yet we still often hear our accent being looked down upon over there.

[israeldoronio]

The pronunciation of words and languages here in the philippines start in sounding of letters, in school we were taught during our primary grades on how to sound each letter and combined with the other, until these sound combination became a words, and words became a sentence, sentence became a paragraph, and so on.

[artistfloriancc]

I think Filipinos have a good command of the English language because of many factors but one of the most overlooked factors is their love for singing especially English songs. Children develop their grammar and diction at an early age and they articulate very well. Also the way they speak opens up their powerful vocal chords again at a very young age. Singing really is a powerful tool to loosen one's tongue and vocal qualities. During the British invasion of the 1960s, Filipinos are big fans of the songs of that era, and even today, those songs are still popular and you know British singers at that time, they got higher pitches and Filipinos don't mind, such raw power can't be taught.

[ABC-gymk]

I remember my English Teacher in Second Year high school. She is Amazing specially for right grammar and pronunciation.

[pandorasiren]

My great-grandfather was a Thomasite. They were a group of 500 teachers who traveled to the Philippines to establish a basic education system and to teach English. This happened after the Spanish-American war. I later found out he stopped by Tokyo to pick up more instructors. He was able to make friends with them before making their way to the Philippines. Much respect to my grandfather making that long journey.

[cresenteayo]

Philippine English can be sub-divided into Tagalog English or Taglish, and Bisaya English, or Bisaglish. Taglish sounds mellow, while Bisaglish is hard-accented. Both variants are very maleable and can be hammered to form as real american english, canadian english, australian or even british english. It depend on circumstances and peculiar situation. In singing and beauty competitions abroad, Pinoys tongue are easily adoptible without twisting the tongue no matter what, and just respond naturally to particular diction, resonance or pitch and can mimick any particular brand mentioned above. This is why Pinoys sounds like the originals of whatever genres of music. It can be as good as xerox copy of an original, or a reinvented cover. Philippine singers particularly the artist category can dribble out of thin air his, or her vocals forward, backwards, upwards or inwards. It can be comical too like Charlie Chapman, or all the Hollywood artists combined. For every american great singers from jass, ballad and to rock, their always a thousand or million copies across the Philippines, and its not difficult to find these guys. They are in plain sight, or seen in social media, with the karaoke beside. It can dash marathon lines not just fast, but superfast and furious. The Bisaya tongue is easily recognizable with hard-thick accent in ordinary conversation is most maleable and easily intertwined into the tapestry of music world with ease. A long line of these artists ended world class singers competing in global stage and became Holywood greats, or their Philippine lineage came from the Visayan region. At time of birth the infant spoke the English vowels already. By 6mos-1 yr with Karaoke around, and uncles, aunts and neighbors paraded as if engaged in one community singing competition, this child of tender years evolved into the singer class.

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English courses/ subjects are part of the curriculumn of Elementary, High School and College education in the Philippines aside from medium of instruction is English

[ManduRugas-oekv]

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[michaellargo]

im a filipino but i also love indian english accent with matching head movement ....

[ZenaidaNieva-es]

We Filipinos could easily adjust our accents in every country we came to. Honestly, we have the well Balance way of speaking English or Neutral.

[owen]

My grandniece learns English with American Accent thru You tube by watching a lot of Children Shows now she's having trouble learning Tagalog or Filipino Language she just turned 5 years old and will be enrolling as a Kinder Student and she's having hard time pronouncing Tagalog words she's saying it with slang accents.

[colinareshenry]

Ya because some teachers of Asia countries from Philippines 🇵🇭.

[Berry_tri_sha]

Wait for the upcoming generations of English speakers in the Philippines. Hahahah! My nephew has never been in USA. But he speaks, and sounds just that. Hahah. There's actually allot of them.. actually I call them. The YouTube babys. Hehe.

[myribstellmesheslying]

I think the "accent" stems from the Filipino language using hard/short vowels. For example, we pronounce MABUHAY as M(ah)b(oo)h(ah)y. Our A is the short hard a, not soft-long æ. So we say (ah)pple instead of æpple. Same with E (eh instead of ee/uh), I (ee instead of ai), O (short o instead of oh), and U (oo instead of yu). Cucumber would be coocoomber instead of cyucumbuhr (although most who learned in school would know how to pronounce it of course) .

[baldeagledelta]

I first came to Singapore in the early 90's.

During that time only a few locals knew how to speak fluent and clear english.

Many spoke their mother tongues like Mandarin or Hokkien, Tamil or Malay. Generally it was Singlish and only a few spoke it properly.

Chinese Singaporeans who spoke better english studied in english schools or outstation and those that spoke Ah Beng english were from Chinese schools or newly relocated.

Malays and Indians were generally better english speakers then.

What I did observe after 22 plus years in Sg was that Filipino nannies helped a lot of Singaporean children to learn proper english from them speaking Singlish.

Many of these nannies and maids were actually certified teachers back in the Philippines and they did double up to help tutor their wards. They as surrogate moms dressed them up properly too when in those early days, the local had Ah Beng fashion sense. So the Filipino maids and nannies contributed greatly to the following generations of Singaporeans.

The early 2000's brought in an infux of Western migrants and infuence because Sg was greatly reaching its affluence and prosperity then. It hastened the rapid progress of modernizing Sg and its new generation to speak better english and be fashionable and hip.

I should know, Ive been there for more than 2 decades and saw Sg grow and from their many open cogon fields develop into modern housing and urban centers.