Do people from the phillipines speak spanish?

Question

I see they have spanish surnames but i hardly see any of them speak spanish.

Answer 1

some do but the vast majority of them do not. when spain took over the philipines they made a point not to teach them spanish so as to control them better. they have the spanish surnames because of the spanish presence in the islands.

Answer 2

there are those that can speak but most can't. most of those who do speak, however, are either from the old rich families [with spanish blood in them] or those who learn it as a second language. there are also words in the filipino language that have spanish origins so some words can be understood. the spanish surnames, if not from a real history of spanish bloodline is a result of the spaniards not being able to pronounce filipino surnames, so they changed them.

Answer 3

The Philippines were colonized by the Spanish, that's why alot of our last names are Spanish. Filipinos speak Tagalog or another dialect of it, which has Spanish (along with Chinese and other Malaysian) words integrated into it. Filipinos share the same basic Mestiza ancestry as Mexicans, in that they are a Spanish and Indian(meaning a "native", not "indian" in terms of "Native American" or someone from "India")-bred race.

Answer 4

do people from the Phil speak spanish?--no.no one does or at least you can never hear two filipino talk to each other in spanish.(some who might learn it as a second lang)

most of us have spanish surnames cuz of the spanish colonization back years ago so thats why the surname remains and alot of the (spanish) word wer sqeezed in our language

Answer 5

there not ever was once a big scale immigration into the philippines and there's no want for an additional language after they have already got one. theres additionally a change among the way in which the New World was once colonized and the way Southeast Asia was once colonized. at the present time there's no must be trained spanish as their primary import/export companions speaks chinese language/english/jap

Answer 6

Unfortunately no, during the Spanish colonization years, the Spanish at that time wanted to supress the learning of the Spanish language similarly to the era of Slavery in America wherein reading and writing was banned to slaves.

Answer 7

Not many of us Filipinos speak Spanish. I can, but only simple phrases.

Answer 8

Some do.. most of them do not speak spanish.. We do have some words in our language that are also spanish words.

Answer 9

They speak a different dialect. But I have known Filipinos and they do understand Spanish.

Answer 10

A lot of them do, yes.