what is happening today with spanish language in the Philippines?

Question

Is there any place there where people still speaks spanish? I've read in Cavite and in the south people speaks languages which are similar to spanish

Answer 1

About 1,100,000 people in the Philippines can speak Spanish, and many still study it in High Schools (examples of such are Kostka School and St. Pedro Porveda School, both of which are exclusive schools). Spanish has never been the language of the natives, since the Spaniards refused to educate the Filipinos. Nevertheless, some people in the Philippines still speak Pidgin Spanish. One example would be the Chavacano people of Ternate, Cavite, who speak the Ternateno dialect of Chavacano (mixture of Tagalog, Spanish, and Moluccas or Gilolo language - an Indonesian language), and those in Zamboanga City who speakl the Zamboanguena dialect of Chavacano (mixture of Cebuano, Subanon, Spanish, and Tagalog).

Many Filipinos, primarily in the middle and upper echelons of society, can speak broken Spanish. In Manila, there has been a recent upsurge in the learning of Spanish . They go Instituto Cervantes ( branch of the Academia Real de Lengua Espanola in Asia), which is near Intramuros, because speaking Spanish nowadays seem cool.

But most Filipinos can actually read and understand basic Spanish due to the massive influences of the latter to Tagalog. About 25% of Tagalog words are of direct Spanish provenance.

Answer 2

Spanish is now not spoken via nearly all of Filipinos. Only a tiny minority, traditionally elite households with ties to Spain, nonetheless talk it, traditionally at house or to different Filipinos with Spanish ancestry. Spanish declined as a language ever on account that the Philippines was once taken over via the Americans after the Spanish-American, and later the Filipino-American, wars. It was once changed via English because the language of schooling, trade, and govt, and with language, if you do not use it, you then lose it, and that is what occurred to Spanish within the Philippines. Talk of Spanish being re-centered is impractical. How are you able to re-determine a language that's now not utilized in daily existence, or if the men and women who manipulate govt or the economic system, besides once more for a only a few, do not use it or don't seem to be even fluent in it? There was once a time while all tuition scholars needed to take Spanish, however only a few people who did can comprehend little various inventory terms considering that we under no circumstances had to make use of it after commencement. The equal factor occurred to people who found out different international languages however under no circumstances had the danger to make use of them more often than not.

Answer 3

Spanish was not the widely used language in the Philippines even during colonial times. It was not taught to the "natives" and only the Kastila or Spaniards born in the Philippines, some mestizos and generally the rich and powerful during that time were the only ones with access to schools and were taught the language of their "motherland." There were some Spanish words that trickled down and are still in use today. There are probably some places were there were a lot of renegades before who studied the language and passed it down. In any case, Spanish was only used by the elite and a handful few. Today, Spanish in its full form is not spoken in the Philippines.

Answer 4

English is now the 2nd Language in the Philippines

the people today in the Philippines speaks English than Spanish

But if you will see about 15yrs ago its a subject you must take

That;s why our grandparents speaks Spanish than English

But "chavakanos" speaks a lot of word of Spanish...

Answer 5

Spanish language is taking it's course back in the Philippines. I heard that in Visayas students were taught spanish. And there is a Spanish-Filipino criolle here in the Phil. called Chabacano with 5 dialects. My mom is Chabacano and she used to talk to me in Chabacano language since I was young but now, I am learning Spanish language instead of chabacano. Sorry for my bad English. Buenas Noches!

Answer 6

spanish is almost dead in the philippines. there was a time when a spanish course is a required language elective in college but not anymore--at least since 12 years ago, i think.
mostly, it is associated with high society-- those old rich who com from spanish mestizos/mestizas.
as piscean_apple said, chavacano comes close to the language but not close enough.

Answer 7

the spanish language is widely associated with the country's major dialects. but mainstream spanish was dead since the eighties were they abolish the spanish subjects. funny that 300 years of spanish reign the filipinos didnt embrace it compared to the english language that filipinos are very known of. this is their 2nd language.

Answer 8

A long time ago when you were studying or when you were in school spanish is a requirement to take in order to graduate. Now a days its just an option.

Answer 9

yeah,i agree with ms.priss.its almost dead,as in gone.my mom is an elementary school teacher and she said they have spanish as a subject before,way back 1960s.but u can still see that the traces of spanish era is still around by religion,culture,and family name.mine is salazar,my great great grand father is spanish. hasta la vista :)

Answer 10

I've noticed that there are still a lot of random Spanish words in Tagalog today. Trabajar, La Mesa.....quite a few others too.