Can Filipinos speak Spanish? History and Reaction to Spanish in the Philippines

Today we take a look at Philippine Spanish. We are going to look at the history of Spanish in the Philippines, then explore how similar are Spanish and Filipino by comparing several Tagalog and Spanish words and finally we will have a reaction to a Filipino speaking Spanish. We will find out how much Spanish Filipinos speak?

I recommend the channel of my friend @Luel Zone
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuhmUtkgxNNSBXGa6weLYWg
And watch all of our Filipino related content
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNUOuOEhuZM&list=PL-wrujNQZDM7hqDpA0hIKpC2c5GIUl6S4
Transcript.

So when I started this channel about hispanic culture and languages, I didn’t think I was going to be talking about the Philippines. Little did I know that years later, I was going to have so many followers who would share their culture! And that our community wouldn’t exists without Filipinos.

So today I am going to look at the Spanish language in the Philippines, the influence of it in language and react to how well Filipinos speak Spanish.

Spanish has influenced the Philippines since the 16th century. In fact, the name of the country Philippines comes from the king Philip II of Spain… El Rey Felipe decided to call the islands Islas Felipinas which eventually became the Philippines translated to English.
On a side note- Another interesting fact is that a lot of the Spanish people who colonized the archipelago came from Mexico.
Spanish was an official language in the Philippines and as well as a lingua franca until half of the 20th century. At some point over 60% of Phlipinos spoke spanish.

The US of course tried to make English the main language, and many Filipinos also preferred English because they saw the former Spanish occupation in a negative light, and seeing the US in a more positive way. Spanish in the Philippines quickly declined significantly until the end of the 20th century.
In the 1970’s and 80s there was a change in which English and Filipino became the official language which further cemented the decline of Spanish
Cry cry (so Spanish language in the Philippines was not as prevalent as before
However, in the 21st century there has been a revival of the interest in the Spanish language. After all, a lot of the history of Philippines is written in Spanish and there are still many official documents with legal weight written in the language. And not only that, Filipinos have enriched our language for centuries. Think of the book Los Pajaros de Fuego written in Spanish by a Filipino journalist. King Juan Carlos I commented in 2007, "In fact, some of the beautiful pages of Spanish literature were written in the Philippines."

Now let’s take a look at the influence of Spanish in Filipino languages. In the past we have talked about Spanish creoles like Zamboangeno and Caviteno. Don’t forget to watch these videos.

But let’s take a look at a non extensive list of words in Filipino that come from Spanish

habichuela
dulce de leche[
melocotón
estacionamiento
dinero/plata
camiseta
Now I am going to react to one of our most loyal followers Luel speaking Spanish Now I know that FIlipinos speak Spanish to different degrees of expertise,but this is just a sample.

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