What happened to the Spanish language in the Philippines?

Spanish use to be the 2nd language in the Philippines. Now it has been replaced by English. In this video, I will show you how Spanish slowly was replaced by English and how Spanish is slowly disappearing in the Philippines. #philippines #filipino #filipinoamericanhistory #mariosfilipinochannel #pinoy #spanish #english

[TheMilpitasguy]

More Spanish speakers in the 1920s and 30s due to lingering Spanish influence, but eventually died out after WW2. Even the Spanish language college requirement of 4 semesters was abolished. I still speak a smattering of Spanish to communicate with my Mexican landscaper.

[Basta]

Spanish was the language of education. If you were elite then you were likely to get educated. If you were born poor and got educated somehow (like through scholarship), you have a chance to become prominent in society. Thus we associate Spanish with elites.

The issue was that most people in the Philippines in 1898 were uneducated. It’s normal for a mostly agrarian society. Universal education at this time was mostly in Eurocentric countries and Japan.

Even Latin America had much of their rural uneducated native populations unable to speak Spanish. Only later in the 20th century when they were given education were they able to speak Spanish.

Just as I write this in English because I’m an educated Filipino, so did the illustrados and revolutionaries communicate in Spanish to express their ideas because they were educated in Spanish. There was no other medium of instruction during the Spanish empire.

[ChrisPenaso]

Muchas Gracias🎉🎉😢😢yo soy desde Filipinas🇵🇭🤝🇪🇸🇲🇽

[houstonfilipino]

I speak fluent spanish, we speak spanish at home, my kids 6 and 8 years old speak spanish

[jackstone]

Yea, Spanish should be our 2nd language

[ma.corazonmorabe]

Filipino and English is the official language in the Philippines

[andrearoces]

Philippines and Mexico were hoth provinces of Spain for almost 400 ears together qith some Latun American countriea of today. Philippines was called as the spanish east indies.

[JudyBofill]

Spanish should be back in school.america now have spanish used in government and business.

[JosephSolisAlcaydeAlberici]

It's time to bring Spanish back into the Philippine basic education curriculum from kindergarten until SHS, not just for historical nostalgia reasons, but also for economic competitiveness reasons where the Philippine government through DepEd should train the next generation of Filipinos how to speak Spanish at an early age and work as bilingual analysts in the BPO industry or study and work in Spain and Latin America.

[dennisdec]

The then President Gloria Arroyo tried to reintroduce the Spanish curriculum some time in 2008 but it was short lived due to strong condemnation by hardline Nationalist groups could face impeachment for violating Article XIV Sections 6 and 7 of the 1987 Constitution which provides that Filipino and English as the official languages of the Republic of the Philippines. Spanish was deferred by the then Education Secretary Bro. Armin Luistro, FSC then Dr. Leonor Briones a staunch Nationalist and in the present situation the Spanish curriculum is in a lonely struggle as Asian pop culture such as K-pop and Japanese anime has long dominated the Filipino youth.

[khantsal]

Philippines still speak Spanish at the time of spain handed over control of Philippines to united states after americans occupated Philippines, they removed Spanish from Philippines educational system and replaced with only English. After WWII Spanish speakers started to decline and around 1970 Spanish language was completely lost in Philippines. In this time US was world power and their culture have so much influenced to the world and English become global dominante language so most of Philippines speak English instead of Spanish.
Today Philippines was recognized globally one of the best English speaking country in the world.

[jonivillanueva]

spanish language still exist here in the philiphines we know how to count spanish lnguage.and spanish language still part ot the tagalog language

[charlesbarrios]

Ilonggos have a lot of spanish words though not as intensive as chabacano. My father and his cousins speak spanish in 60s. My fe de bautismo is in spanish. I don't know but I love my spanish heritage.

[nicanorbadal]

I think the philip pines should have a flood of mexican telenovelas en español com subtitulo de inglés

[leejohnchristopher]

No lo estaré de acuerdo que el español en Filipinas morirá. Es una parte integral de nuestra herencia y identidad como filipinos. Espero que algún día regresará.

[dennisdec]

These days the Filipino youth are not inclined to learn Spanish as they are more influenced by Kpop, Japanese anime and Asian cultures, also the Philippines is integrated into ASEAN I speak Mandarin and Bahasa Melayu or Malay for business, tourism also learning Tieng Viet as influences from our ASEAN neighbours dominated our country and not keen on Spanish.

[nicanorbadal]

There are some spaniards that are certainly bad people but there are tons of bad people everywhere...the philippines was under spain 6...7x longer than was under america...but today more filipinos speak english than spanish...one of the reasons is that because the americans have the mandatory...lectura escrita y arithmética and english is maybe better than spanish...our great unclegranpa jose rizal seems to have discerned it during his time

[emdgheh]

Comes down to if one wants to be successful in the world or not.
Lets face it, when it comes to commerce this world is rapidly becoming 2 languages to get ahead, Mandarin and English is really all you need.
Admittedly I have a personal bias and would also add Japanese to that perhaps others, but one thing is certain just by looking at a map with economic statistics on it....spanish is not necessary.

[PeterPaulRoldan]

Pues, la leche de ese idioma ¡¡¿cómo nos importa hablarlo?!!!!

[antigraftandcorruption]

Because Spanish people also speak English nowadays