In general, which people speak better English, Filipinos or Thais?Pls prove your point.?

Question

Please cite sites or stats to prove your claim. Thanks.

Answer 1

I tried to 'research' this question myself without bias (I'm FILIPINO). So I looked at the percentage of literacy between both countries, linguistics, and personal experience.

As far as literacy goes, Thailand and the Philippines are pretty much neck and neck. Thailand is ahead with 92.6% can read and write that are over 15y/o (males-94.9%, females-90.5%).
The Philippines is at 92.28% overall (males-92.10%, females-92.47). English is the primary language of public education (the only subject not taught in english is 'Filipino').

For the Philippines, English AND Tagalog are the official languages. As opposed to Thailand where English is the second language. In the Philippines' government, english is the prevalent language used.

Linguistically, both are proposed to have links to austronesian languages (among other things of course), so the same may have the same degree of difficulty as far as learning english goes.

As far as personal experience, I've known just a few Thai people and they grew up here, so they no doubt have flawless english. My english is pretty decent and I moved to the US when I was 18.

Hard to say I guess, but the advantage for better english-speaking goes to Filipinos because of early instruction, history (US occupied the Philippines for a time), and the fact that Thailand is more traditional than the Philippines--the Philippines cannot help their colonial mentality due to their history.

These are just matters-of-fact, though. And it doesn't necessarily point out to whether one is better than the other, just differences in each countries current state, as well as their histories.

Answer 2

Filipinos. No matter how you compared the 3 it is still Filipinos who speak better English dialect. That is why the Filipinos are well sort applicants whether it is the Middle East countries or Europe to their employees. It is only now that they hire Indians and Malaysians too as long as they are Muslims in the Middle East. Not because I am a Filipino that is why I am vouching for Filipinos. I am presently in Africa for many years and have mingled with Indians and Malaysians and other nationality. Their English dictums couldn't be understood easily and some Indians couldn't speak a little English language yet they were occupied by British before.

Answer 3

I find Phillipinos speak English very well, the ones who I have met at least. Thais I don't know because I can't recall ever speaking to a Thai in person

First time I met a phillipino I thought he didn't understand English, so I spoke very slowly and emphatically to him, so he could understand.
I emphasised every syllable and he listened to me with great concentration, after I had finished my teaching to him he asked me what country I came from. I felt like such a dcik

not true weezy, in the phillipines English and Taginglish are widely spoken, culture and tradition has as much to do with it as the individual

Answer 4

Depends on the person...not the nationality

Answer 5

neither