CHAVACANO Vs Spanish : How Similar Are These Languages?

Chavacano Vs. Spanish - It's probably the closest to Spanish of all our local languages in the Philippines. They say that about 70% of their words are loaned from Español.
I've never spoken to a Chavacano before but I understand and speak Spanish. So we thought it would be fun to try and see if I can understand my friend here when she speaks her native tongue.
How similar do you think they are?
If you're a Spanish-speaker, would you understand what they are saying?
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[@omarsanchezmbasogo3011]

This is called diversity. You can speak Spanish in Europe, in the Americas, here in Africa, in Asia and even in Oceania Our language is not restricted to Spain and Hispano America as some people think

[@jl7778]

Your language is not restricted to Spain alone, not because many liked to use it, but because your spaniard ancestors never settled in spain but liked to disturb others who were living peacefully.

[@koegs1937]

Ale ARAVENA OBREQUE in rapa nui

[@genarojimenez4744]

@Ale ARAVENA OBREQUE Oceania is continent ?

[@adrianwakeisland4710]

Tiene en oceania. En mi pais, la isla de Guam. El idioma castellano de mi pais es el idioma ingles de malasia y indonesia.

[@chemiguel940]

Bien dicho Omar. Saludos desde Nicaragua.

[@cassandr444z]

cebuanos: we have some mixed spanish words chavacanos: hold my beer

[@toiletholder]

It’s not a competition as to who is more Spanish. Chavacano speakers are generally Visayan heritage. Visayans adopted Spanish vocabulary and plugged it into Visayan grammar. When Cebuanos and Visayans in general say that their respective language has among the most Spanish loan words of any native language of the Philippines, they do so while understanding that Chavacano has the most. It’s just that Chavacano is difficult to classify as a native Philippine language. That is, a language that descended from the proto-Philippine language group. It is a creole language with Spanish as it’s main vocabulary source.

[@kevincarlsantos8160]

Hold my ass cassandra

[@matt_tron1014]

Spanish is not a hard language to learn. If you know how to speak english or any other romance languages, learning spanish will be easy for you. Since alot of filipino languages have spanish vocab words especially cebuano, we can understand and learn the language more faster i guess.

[@helcurtistheone459]

@@kevincarlsantos8160 hoy numa ansina respesta ku nel mujer

[@d30punisher80]

@@toiletholder on the contrary chavacanos of zamboanga comes from cavite where spanish brought us to zamboanga and build defend the FORT Pilar

[@benedictogonzalezortiz1396]

I am a native Spanish speaker from Mexico and I am amazed at this. I can't believe we don't learn about this. I've always been fond of languages and I remember looking up videos on Filipinos speaking Spanish when I was a teenager. Thanks for posting this! It's so interesting.

[@reggiefishandfun770]

Did you know Nuevo Espana administer Philippines for 250 years before Mexico liberated ezpanol take over Filipinas we have Mexico city in Filipinas province of Pampanga bro you bring avocado,pine Apple here in barter banana palmera coconut, tamarind during Manila Acapulco Galleon trade 1564-1815😂 did you know that? For every 100 zpanizh zoldier 1000 native American ratio that's why we have trio blood mexican and Peru Incas are soldiers at that time I'm not sure if I had native American blood but my grandfather is meztiso

[@JavierGarcia-ue8by]

Nosotros los Mexicanos ...y los Filipinos ...somos..primos.

[@JavierGarcia-ue8by]

Us...Mexicans .. and philippines ...we're ...cousins.

[@Art-rx6qz]

@@JavierGarcia-ue8by drop your ig

[@Lubeaut]

I have always known this 😂 where have you been ?😂

[@seraphicchic8829]

It's only been 30 YEARS since they removed Spanish subject in the Philippines. It's possible that they'll bring it back again... SLOWLY. If they made English as a mandatory subject in the Philippines, they can bring back Spanish as a subject too. Imagine it, we both can understand and know how to speak English and Spanish, the two of the most spoken languages in the world! It's better to learn a language while a person is still young tho Edit: Accepting Spanish Language is Not abolishing our Nationalism. Whatever happened in the past colonization of the Spaniards will be part of our country's history. But we need to move forward and never be stuck on the pain of the past. We need to adapt changes for the betterment of our fellowmen. Bringing back Spanish is a great idea. Plus it's part of our history. Language play a vital role in economic development of every country.

[@lychee4031]

That'll be so cool... I want it back

[@verbologos1520]

Un sueño hecho realidad.

[@quepasa9590]

They don’t want us to be smart . America should require Spanish ! We are not required anything but English .

[@ir3652]

Same but i got mixed feelings tho. Since im a history major po..i felt its kind of sad that our bayanis fought for independence from spain..but i wish it bring it back since culture you know?

[@rendellvalles6749]

What they should do is put Spanish and English as national languages and the languages spoken in each region should be a subject as well. Tagalog, Hiligaynon, bicol, bisaya etc. Need to live and having 3 languages spoken by people help in developing their minds.

[@not_wiyonee269]

Interesting.

[@CarlGal0015]

Me too.. i only know tagalog.. but im studying spanish hehe

[@mcuevas2]

Not even close..sounds very childish.

[@ZZPAFF123]

@@CarlGal0015 ¡Bien hecho!

[@CarlGal0015]

@@ZZPAFF123 si, buenos tardes senior! Estoy yundo a un curso.

[@ZZPAFF123]

@@CarlGal0015. Estupendo Late Bloomer. Te ayudo un poco: se dice "yendo a un curso", no "yundo". Un cordial saludo.

[@dhasty088]

Did you know: that our original "NATIONAL ANTHEM, LUPANG HINIRANG" was written and sang in Spanish. 👌🇪🇸🇵🇭

[@NeetoryuKunRHMN]

Tierra adorada?

[@alexandria62753]

Dhasty TV you are very right its always given on examination in spanish subject and you get 10 points if you wtite it perfectly I still remember the first two lines.. 🇵🇭Tiera adorada hija del sol de oriente

[@keithhh]

Before Spanish it was in another language. You might wanna check this out kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIi2lGaYf61ooMk

[@johnhimaya3331]

Tierra adorada.Hija de Sol oriente. Los envasores en tu regazo esta.

[@lorztiamsing6591]

Yeah... we sing that when I was in high school

[@henhaooahneh]

It doesn't sound like "broken Spanish" but like old Castilian

[@manuelholanda4034]

La verdad es que sí

[@zeekfreak9640]

si, dokito frito, de lata de sardinas.

[@alxylg9322]

@@zeekfreak9640 halatang nang gagago lang haha

[@wewtew6883]

@@alxylg9322 hahhaha

[@alpacamale2909]

Para nada yo estudiaba castellano antiguo y esto se puede entender. Castellano antiguo es casi imposible.

[@tomasespinoza2751]

Chavacano and Spanish are very similar, as a native Spanish speaker, Chavacano sounds like a really broken Spanish. However, is very interesting to realize that as an Hispanic person I am connected to others who live so distant from me as the Filipinos. On the other hand, it would have been so interesting to know how Filipinos speak Spanish an have them be part of the Hispanic culture.

[@tomasespinoza2751]

Why not a Copa America with the Philippines as a guest team for the next edition?

[@robroux6074]

It's not Spanish .. . it's MEXICAN spanish . If it were SPANISH from Spain it would sound like CUBAN or Puerto Rican ' Dale' 'Cono'. But Mexican Spanish is a hyrbid of Classical Nahautl and Castillian(1400s) . .. 'Como Ta' ' Que te va bien' ' Tu Hablas espanol' That's Mexican because Spaniards would have said ' VOS' to say you. Spanish couldn't send troops to S. Philipines the majoriyt of the TROOPS and Settlers in South Philipines were of Nahautl and Mayan descent. Central Mexican Spanish speakers can understand CHAVACANO while Cubans could not. CHAVACANO speakers could understand Central Mexican ( Non Sinaloan-Norteno).

[@R.G.Willmore]

mis padres eran de Panamá y hablaban español y un inglés créole. Siempre me interesaron los idiomas créole y patwa.

[@djennym8389]

@Santiago P we actually love football as well because the spanish priests introduced them in Catholic schools..

[@pedroarjona6996]

I have read that the language combines an Spanish Vocabulary with an Australasian grammar, those da, lang, ti and tes that apear randomly in the phrases are prefix and suffix modifiers of tense, mode, case and number, important grammar information that in Spanish we present in a total diferent way, so both languages sound very alike, but are very diferent.

[@lueenim]

This is more like modern chavacano/ informal chavacano/ millenial-like chavacano. Formal chavacano is close to español but no one really speaks or uses the real deep formal chavacano (apart from our great grandparents) these days. But in general this is Chavacano. Kudos for introducing chavacan 😁👍

[@yssev07]

This is true. This is the form of Chavacano that's mostly spoken nowadays. Recently, I volunteered to translate some text from Tagalog to Chavacano. We formed a team. But, the others in the group would spell words informally. My OC side wouldn't agree so I had to edit it into formal Chavacano. 😅 Then asked my dad to proofread.

[@gentilewarrior]

Formal chavacano is Filipinos Spanish that so very close to Mexican Spanish with loan words from nahuatl.

[@glennardevangelista5615]

She speaks modern chavacano.. She dont know how to speak pure chavacano language..

[@jh1ib]

Tupaw tu, bien makapeste gale uwi ta ase pa de meskla de english pati tagalog.. mas bale lang syempre uwi mga hente de monte tan kwento chavacano

[@frebs141]

Formal Chavacano is used in News, Education and government. Ojala the fields in which it is used will expand (business, Music, Arts, Religion).

[@MrPete1530]

Just realized that Chavacano is Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Tagalog put up in a blender

[@0wnter1d1ck]

Italian not really

[@Softnsweetbb]

I heard no Portuguese or Italian, at least not how native Portuguese or Italians pronounce words so perhaps I didn’t recognize them

[@Y4DiiR4]

Yess, i heard spanish, portuguese, tagalog, italian...

[@ZZPAFF123]

Pete Rivera Torres.I have not found a single word of Portuguese or Italian.

[@ZZPAFF123]

@@Y4DiiR4 I am Spanish, and I have travel frequently to Portugal. The city I live in is highly visited by Italian students, with whom I share my subway journeys during the winter, so I am used to hearing them speak Italian. And I affirm that the young Filipina did not say a single word in Portuguese or Italian. Almost everything was Spanish, and part in another language that I suppose is Tagalog.

[@stephanielim5544]

I'm a Chavacano from Zamboanga as well and the first time I heard the Pope speak which is Italian, I somehow understood it. Which makes Chavacano a Spanish creole, with English, Filipino, and Italian mixed together with the accent of Portuguese. So yeah quite a language 😂

[@robroux6074]

It's actually also influenced by Classical Nahautl or Mexican Spanish because CHAVACANO sounds similar to Mexican spanish and unlike South American or Cuban Spanish which is directly Spanish. Mexican Spanish is also influenced by Latin because of the Catholic church that taught us the language. Reading up on the Manilla Galleon and found that 80% of the settlers in Zambo City were Nahautl(Aztec, Tlaxcalan) and Mayan. Yes , as a Central Mexican , I can understand ITALIANS much better than Brazilian Portugese & Cubans & Iberian Spaniards. That's probably why LAURA PAUSINI is huge in Mexico because her accent is a match.

[@azplays6821]

Hi can i ask for your help? I need to translate words in chabacano. Pls

[@stephanielim5544]

@@azplays6821 sure

[@hikazayanikushi9086]

The reason why there’s the Italian and Portuguese aspect has to do with the fact that Spanish, Italian, Portuguese among with French, and Romanian are part of a family language called the Romance language.

[@primitivochapa7837]

Amazing

[@pabloguerra3028]

Quiero felicitarlos por el gran video. Aunque no hable Chavacano.. yo puedo entender claramente lo que dicen y se me hace facil contestarle. Creo que las personas de Latino America y Las queridas Filipinas somos primos y tenemos una conexion muy grande. Ojala que mas personas en su pais tuvieran la oportunidad de volver aprender Español. Ya dominan el Ingles, el Tagalog, otros idiomas locales, y volver aprender Español seria relativamente facil. Saludos cordiales de Panama a las Filipinas.

[@csalazarfull]

I am from Ecuador Sur America and I remember that some time ago our natives spoke Spanish very similar to Chavacano. Old natives still do. I guess by ignorance, people was not able to understant that native's Spanish was really the one spoken by the 17th Century. Very educational. Thank you.

[@ajoajoajoaj]

There is a village I believe in Ecuador where they speak a language a language called Media Lengua, which combines the grammar of Quechua with the vocabulary of Spanish. It originated among Native labourers travelling to the city to work in the mid 20th century and snowballed into a completely new hybrid culture, and is a famous example among contact linguists of what are called "mixed languages" in the true sense of the term. Chavcano here is sort of mid-way between that type of language and the classic creole which boils down the grammar of a colonial language to a more primordial form.

[@philipjaysiscar]

Muchas gracias tambien mi amigo..

[@philomelodia]

I have studied Spanish of the 17th century. It does not quite sound like this. The only part of this variety that really has remnants of 17th century Spanish is the hard d and g between two vowels. It still had the grammar that we would recognize today back then so the grammar of Chavacano is absolutely not 17 century Spanish. As for why native American speakers of Spanish would sound like this is because they are second language speakers who Learned the language through absorption instead of formal study and because they are using the language just to communicate and get their point across. They’re not trying to learn the grammar to the extent that a native Spanish speaker learned so they will simplify the verb conjugations and will usually come up with some kind of tense marker like the Chavacanos use And they will get rid of gender altogether. The focus of the sentence will be on the noun in the way and the word order is put together is going to be highly influenced on their language of origin. They will also settle on one form of the word you. It’ll either be tú, usted or the more archaic vos. The verb conjugations will not match that form completely though. Anyway, I hope this sheds some light on things for people. It is a very interesting variety of Spanish.

[@LaraLim1010]

I’m a Zamboanguena... we talk chavacano...we use sorry but we say also “ta pidi iyo perdon”...

[@marinellaalba9452]

"I'm sorry" in chavacano is (Perdona comigo)

[@popisvlogs8286]

Gracias!

[@juancalderon6374]

That sounds a lot more like Spanish

[@OscarCortesV]

Sounds like "yo te pido perdón" I notice that they put the pronoun after the verb in many phrases.

[@primitivochapa7837]

Hola de los estados unidos

[@Slayer-33]

Holy hell, as a Dominican American her language sounds exactly like any form of Spanish, the words seem to be moved around a tiny bit but you can completely understand it, the accent is incredibly familiar and natural sounding as if it was typical Spanish, any Spanish speaker to her would be instantly understood.

[@adrianabad9823]

Que video mas interesante. Muchisimas gracias a los dos por realizar un video tan divertido e interesante. Soy de España y estoy deseoso de viajar a Zamboanga. Pienso que la cultura de todos los paises Hispanos, incluido Filipinas ha enriquecido y enriquece el mundo de una forma maravillosa.!!!! Los Hispanos tenemos la alegria de vivir, disfrutar, expresar y vivir en comunidad!!!

[@yssev07]

I am a chavacano from Basilan. We say "dispensa" for sorry. But, it's not common anymore since most young people are now starting to speak in Tagalog.

[@lucasscholl3595]

In spanish is "Despensa" (pantry), for the sound i confuse, for "sorry" we use "disculpa, perdón". But "dispensar" is used in religion, example for the marry in the case of priest.

[@yssev07]

@@lucasscholl3595 Si, I learned from my Spanish class that "disculpa" is more appropriate in general than "dispensa". But, I haven't heard anyone use that. I remember "pérdon" when I was a child; but, it's rarely used now. Everyone just says sorry. Maybe I should start using "pérdon" again.

[@jonjericomacaso5721]

Uy ta usa pa yo se dispensar palabra hahahahah

[@yssev07]

@@jonjericomacaso5721 ansina? Bueno pa tu. Aqui ralo ya lang gad se. Pero, bien bonito oi ta usa maga palabra chavacano. :)

[@josecardenas8224]

@@lucasscholl3595 you are totally correct about the meaning of despensa , but the word "dispensa" of the verb "dispensar " is a very old spanish way of saying pardon me or excuse me.

[@x22y44]

Soy paraguayo. Acabo de saber que entiendo un idioma más! Chabacano!

[@Nawy1761]

puedes encontrar a los chespiritos hablando chabacano

[@sofiamaimone6980]

@@Nawy1761 ¿ Hay que plantar el chabaavacono?

[@tuamipsicologa]

¿Acabo de saber? Suena algo raro😅

[@x22y44]

@@tuamipsicologa Te lo digo en inglés: I just found out.

[@tuamipsicologa]

@@x22y44 SII, es como un me acabo de enterar o me acabo de dar cuenta de... Quería confirmar si sí se podía decir de esa forma porque suena incorrecto (soy hablante nativa 🤣)

[@epramos6800]

I'm a 8th generation Californio (look that up). Old family on my father's side in our state. My father in law is from Zamboanga City. He was born in 1932 and was lucky to be recruited by the US Navy to enlist as a ships steward. He retired a Master Chief Gunners Mate after 28 years. As a retired military man success in small business, he owned laundromats near college campuses or apartment complexes in Long Beach, Ca (a former USN base city and where my wife and two brothers were born) and neighboring Lakewood Ca. My father and he would converse in Chavacano and Spanish and teach one another the language for 24 years. My 'Suegro' passed away in his sleep this past March, 2020... He was 86... I miss you Pop and so does my Papa, you're compadre Reyes... we love and miss you.

[@lovellabucog2851]

My boyfriend is from Zamboanga City and I love listening each time he speaks Chavacano with his family.

[@eduardorubensanchez6672]

Gracias amigazo que bueno verlos juntos y gracias como siempre por compartir su cultura, saludos desde Argentina !!!!!

[@EricMartinezPH]

Gracias hermano por vernos, saludos y feliz año nuevo

[@BobbySyGo]

¿Sabés qué? Cuándo era niño empecé a aprender a hablar castellano de un par de amigos de Buenos Aires que asistían a la misma iglesia que yo. Mi abuela hablaba Chavacano y un día ella me escuchó hablando castellano y ella se sorprendió pensando que yo estaba aprendiendo a hablar Chavacano…

[@Ken-sr6eo]

We have surname Sanchez too here in the Philippines

[@rauloliveira2922]

Yo soy Portugues y hablo español tambien. Entiendo Chavacano muy bien. Pienso que se habla en Zamboanga.

[@yssev07]

Yo tengo amigos y amigas Brasileño y Brasileña. Ellos/ellas pueden entender cuando hablo chavacano. Y cuando hablan despacio y con claridad, también puedo entenderlos. :)

[@dasosterreich9672]

Eres de Portugal o de Brasil?

[@miggy_lan]

que bom! quantos idiomas entendes?

[@leopoldoortegabernardeau372]

Raul Oliveira O seu nome de família já diz tudo. I have a lot of portuguese cousins

[@jmudikun]

This was fascinating. Thank you for sharing this 😊

[@orangebiatch6689]

im here scrolling through comments and can't distinguish who's using spanish or chavacano

[@lucasscholl3595]

Hello, the right form in spanish os different, if you are interesting in spanish a recommend use Duolingo (app on PlayStore the Google)

[@jayrendon228]

@Jim Meza seriously? Buenas that's 1 dias 2 noches 3 tardes 4, should I continue? Excuse my spelling if it's incorrect, cause I'm a Filipino

[@jayrendon228]

@Jim Meza nope, definitely not our whole language is Spanish, cause we're Filipino's not Spanish, by the way, how old are you?

[@jayrendon228]

@Jim Meza oh, a kid, I see

[@khust2993]

Chavacano do not have Spanish conjugations

[@allaboutvictor5945]

This is great. As both a Spanish speaker and a linguist, this kind of stuff just fills me with joy :)

[@lordflipzo]

This is modern Chavacano, try speaking with the oldies or the ones who grew up away from the city center, they got more Spanish vocabulary that we don't normally use. Awesome vid, more please!

[@martinpardinas2162]

I suggest go here in zamboanga. There more locals know the translations accurately.

[@ginoongdenzel7838]

Petition to bring back Spanish in Philippines education system!!!

[@andresvillanueva5421]

@@ejnerbes1071 Why not?

[@andresvillanueva5421]

@si Markeyan The only reason Mandarin is popular is because of their population, considering only a few people learn Mandarin outside of China and isn't even a part of Philippine culture, why would we choose Mandarin over Spanish?

[@andresvillanueva5421]

@@ejnerbes1071 The Spanish didn't take away Baybayin, they kept it in their documents but the Americans burned them all when they prohibited Filipinos from speaking and writing in Spanish. Why do we learn English when almost 300,000 Filipinos were killed by the Americans during the American occupation? Why do some Filipinos learn Japanese when over 1 million Filipinos were killed during their 5 year occupation? Not even 50,000 Filipinos were killed during Spain's occupation, let that sink in.

[@andresvillanueva5421]

@@ejnerbes1071 I suggest you learn more about the Spanish era of the Philippines. It's not as simple as "Spanish bad".

[@andresvillanueva5421]

@@ejnerbes1071 Why are you so aggressive? The Spanish didn't burn them all, they kept it in their documents to learn more about the land they were settling in, they had it until the Americans destroyed their documents. Have you learned of how the Americans burned the important historical manuscripts back then and how they murdered educated Filipinos who spoke Spanish? That's what I'm talking about. Filipinos back then were never forced to learn Spanish, there's a reason why Filipinos today don't speak Spanish, the people who could afford to go to school during the 1600s - 1700s were the only ones who spoke it, along with Filipinos who descended from peninsulares. One of the first public schools in asia was created in the Philippines during the 1800s, the schools were free and every Filipino had the chance to learn Spanish in order to compete in businesses, just like what America and China are doing today in the market and in the field of business. We were never forced, if we were we would still be speaking Spanish. No, not everyone in the world speaks English, especially in latinoamerica and China, 2 of the most business-driven places in the world. If you're going to base your argument on business matters then what you're saying is already inconsistent because Spanish is one of the most important languages in the world when it comes to negotiating, along with English and Mandarin, considering there's more than half a billion Spanish speakers in the world. My arguments are nonsensical because I don't agree with your views therefore I need to scroll down? Amazing.

[@antoniothebest4ever]

Amigo entrevista a alguna persona en Filipinas que hable español de nacimiento alguna persona mayor, son pocos 😢 pero es una alegría saber que aún quedan, el acento de esas personas es parecido al de España. Saludos desde Ecuador 🇪🇨

[@EricMartinezPH]

Siii eso en un buen tip, gracias!

[@juliapaolagarciaruiz1018]

Eric Martinez PH tengo un amigo Filipino que habla español, su abuela le enseño.

[@Benimore]

Guillermo Gómez Rivera es un conocido escritor filipino, mayor de 80 años, que habla español de forma nativa. Hace años fue entrevistado en un reportaje sobre Filipinas.

[@Pokarface7]

There is one man from Dumaguete that learned Spanish with other Filipinos when it was mandatory. He's already 80 though

[@Cesar_Octavio]

No hay, todo esto es mentira. Nadie habla español en Filipinas fijate sino el video, trata sobre el chabacano y el español pero los presentadores hablan en ingles. Y ni hablemos de los comentarios que han dejado en este video.

[@oolooo]

The Filipinos are part of the Hispanic nation and I love them like brothers .They represent us in Asia , the same way the Chamarros do in the Pacific and the Guineans in Central África . VIVA FILIPINAS Y VIVA LA HISPANIDAD .

[@LUBDMA]

Good to know, this is awesome. Thank you!

[@e.g.9809]

Great video guys!

[@andypilicita]

HOLA, saludos desde la mitad del mundo QUITO-ECUADOR seria genial que en Las Islas Filipinas practiquen mas el español pues es un idioma muy genial, espero visitar su país muy pronto

[@Joanneloveshim]

I'm from Zamboanga and because of the diverse culture that our city has, we can speak Chavacano fluently as well as Tagalog, English, Bisaya and for some Tausug. Proud Zamboanguena here!! :)

[@m.k.h.2718]

Great video!

[@alvarosantos8044]

Saludos desde España, no perdáis vuestra propia cultura y lo que queda del idioma español!!

[@betobenchavez1305]

Es español-mexicano en realidad.

[@monnn6645]

Philippines remove Spanish subject the only remaining english subject

[@jaynasser739]

Por eso estamos trabajando a un compaña de call center con Spanihsh lenguaje porque estamos hablando Spañol y Chavano tambien. Nice video sir.

[@EricMartinezPH]

Esooooo que genial! Realmente es una oportunidad que bastante Filipinos pierden por falta de curiosidad

[@juandiegoparales9379]

I hope that Spanish can return to Philippines, chavacano is just the first step! Greets from Colombia to our Philippine siblings

[@BobbySyGo]

Infortunadamente, el chavacano no es el principio de integrar el español en las filipinas, sino los fines de un idioma a punto de morirse en aquellas islas...

[@uwakyawa2280]

no

[@nandraenyeo999]

@@uwakyawa2280 yes

[@septbelleza1935]

no

[@Ken-sr6eo]

@@uwakyawa2280 Yes

[@yuworld4439]

Wooww🔥Looking forward to watching next video!!

[@KingofHeroes-MLBB-CQC]

This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this Very insightful. ^_^.

[@EricMartinezPH]

You're so welcome! Thx 4 watching my videos 💕

[@Joamnesiaaa]

Chavacanos from the mountains and the old people speaks formal and more similar spanish creole than those who lives near the center of the City. If you are a millenial Zamboangueno/Zamboangena and you speak tagalog chances are the older people will reprimand you. One time when I was riding a jeepney to Pasonanca, I spoke tagalog to an old person, then he reprimanded me saying " Porque man ustedes ta abla tagalog? Na Zamboanga kita ustedes, man Chavacano tu" (Why are you speaking tagalog? We are in Zamboanga, you should speak Chavacano). It's really hard to speak Chavacano nowadays when you really can't practice it because most of your peers speaks either tagalog or english, and only some speaks chavacano.

[@soniacastillo6245]

Hola Eric! Estoy sorprendida es mal fácil hablar chavacano Me encanto este vídeo

[@nishel4724]

I am super impressed and amazed!!! Thank you both so much for this fun and informative video!!! I am an African American female Spanish teacher, interpreter and translator by trade who lives in EE.UU. My biological abuelo lived in the Philippines and was fluent in Tagalog- I met him when I was in my 30s. I've decided to learn to speak Chavacano. I lived and studied in España (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid) and I agree- Chavacano appears to have 70 to 80 percent (o más) of the Spanish vocabulary. ¡Que genial! Hopefully the next time I comment it will be completamente en Chavacano!!!! ¡Cuídense mucho! Srta. C

[@EricMartinezPH]

Holiii amiga, thanks for watching our little video and the kind words ❤️ Best of luck with chavacano y un abrazo fuerte

[@CritER2023]

Wow! Nice video!!

[@gerardogama120769]

Mexicanos y Filipinos somos primos! ♥️🇲🇽♥️🇵🇭♥️

[@eduardochavacano]

Filipinos very desperate to claim to be Spanish. This is Chavacano and not Filipinos!

[@Lorenzoremiy]

@@eduardochavacano there are actually Filipinos of direct Spanish ancestry.

[@altheazyraflores7957]

@@eduardochavacano what?????? Filipinos regard to the whole, as in the entirety of the Philippines' citizens. So basically, chavacanos ARE filipinos. AND DESPERATE?? excuse me?? We are our own blood line. The colonizers are to blame

[@ade910]

@@altheazyraflores7957 "to blame"? Like its a bad thing?

[@canarioyespanol6446]

La hispanidad entera es primo hermano de los filipinos. Cuando nueva España decidió secesionarse de España corto el vínculo con Filipinas, hablo en lo político no en lo cultural

[@darlingmuskus8506]

Pensé que eso de "hablar chabacano" era una mala broma de mis abuelos, pero ¡En serio existe! Jajajajaja es tan interesante.

[@zachxL]

Ha ha ha ... chistoso!

[@punchbab9642]

I love your content bro! Muy bien! Take care amd keep safe✌🏽

[@randydiomaboc6904]

I hope ur channel will be successful..thanks for ur videos

[@AnnaLaViajera]

Nice video as always Eric😊... perdón, hasta ahora tengo pendiente de publicar mi vídeo de ti... jeje

[@EricMartinezPH]

No te preocupes amiga, anda viajar! 🤗

[@chenglegaspi3793]

Que tal ana, yo de cavite pero mi chavacano de zambo. Querre yo manda uwi contigo el cancion " mientras yo vivi" si pwede?

[@Armis71]

Sorry, could it be "pasencia?" It must be the younger generation. I never heard my grandparents actually use sorry to some extent when I was a kid and when they were still alive in the '70s. I truly enjoyed this video!

[@lucasscholl3595]

The right form on spanish is "paciencia", if you are interesting in learn spanish.

[@ralphskielarrakov1597]

chabacano today is very different from the old.. old one is more archaic spanish portuguese... the words younger generation use are very limited because they only use common words. by the way if you happen to live in the mountainous area chabacano people use pai and mai to adress grandparents.. portuguese say pai to address abuelo and mai as abuela,.. and italians use cosa for what, di for de. cool isnt it..

[@lalavibes8054]

Paciencia is patience.

[@jdb6026]

@@lalavibes8054 Yeah. Colloquially, in most Filipino languages, "pasensya" is a a light way to say sorry. Using it literally trabslates to "I'm sorry for the inconvenience, please have patience with me." Usually, pasensya is paired with na (already), so "pasensya na (po)" is the outcome. It loosely translates to "Have patience now, please."

[@jdb6026]

I usually say "lo siento" for sorry. Permiso sounds more like "permition." If I want to excuse myself, I say disculpe instead of permiso.

[@diegogamer7460]

Soy venezolano y gracias a ustedes se un poco de chabacano y vaya que lo entiendo perfectamente por que es igual a español, que tengas éxitos con su carrera de youtubers, dios los bendiga

[@lychee4031]

Schools should teach this to students. Not only this language, but also other native languages and also cultures that are slowly starting to fade away... I wanna learn more... :(

[@uvuvwevwevweonyentenyevweu7094]

Ma sisira ang akin utak hahah o magoba ang utok ko hahaha pero pwede itod lol sa mga bata kayas hapos sila tolo an sang lengwahe.

[@kawaiiidol1024]

I've learn a little bit of Chavacano for staying in zambo city for 4 years

[@gilbertslam]

When I took Spanish 100 in college, we were taught Lo Siento for I'm Sorry. Our professor told us the translations varies per countries. So, I'm Sorry also translates to Perdon. She is from Nicaragua

[@powerdriller4124]

"Perdón" only applies where in English "Pardon" would also apply. If one is feeling sad because someone´s misfortune: "Lo siento mucho" is the expression to say, "perdón" would be totally inappropriate, equivalent to say "pardon", when somebody tells his mother died.

[@Fernandodelahoz130]

Wow, I’m a native Spanish speaker, and a friend from the Philippines told me about Chavacano I thought I was not going to be able to understand it, but I see I was completely wrong, great video

[@R.G.Willmore]

I love it!!

[@crazzyeye2099]

This is the one im looking for .

[@911_jiosalvador4]

Hi!!! I am from Tetuan, Zamboanga City, We will work together fellow Zamboangueños to rebuild 70% or much better than the majority Chavacano language, because I observed, in the next generation gradually increasing Cebuanos or Bisaya Language which is already there but, both Zamboangueño, they also no longer teach people from other provinces to use "Chavacano", it is a bit unfair because we are from Zamboanga City visiting Cebu, Davao, Cagayan de Oro, Dumaguete, General Santos, Butuan, Dipolog, and Pagadian , we are adjusting to their official language, they should be the same if they are in Zamboanga as in "ASIA'S LATIN CITY", they also adjust or learn to use chavacano, we do not, we do not need a sudden full sentence even in the basics word of chavacano. Gracias por ‘ste video, man ayudahan quita inciña kanila usando el majoridad lenguaje chavacano.

[@JulioMartinez-fb5yy]

Suena bastante bonito !! Me gusta 👏🏽

[@frankpuga7454]

Very interesting!

[@AlbertWesker_GOAT]

Es simplemente increíble, estos idiomas se crean a base de ignorancia y confusiones producto de la mescla de personas proviniente de diferentes lugares la mayoría son palabras tagiversadas del Español, si hay un lugar a donde quiero ir, es Filipinas, sería muy interesante interactuar con con personas como los chabacanos, ahora que me acuerdo creo que es en Colombia donde dice la palabra "bacano" que es muy similar a chavacano podría tener su descendencia en ese sentido.

[@mytwocents7464]

Muy interesante, el pasado colonial y el legado hispano de las Filipinas no es tan conocido en Latinoamérica. Gracias por compartir y saludos desde Argentina!

[@philip8166]

gracias mi hermano de Filipinas también.

[@alfredoferreira89]

Muy hermoso lo que he oído. Es la primer vez que oigo a alguien hablar en chavacano y me ha emocionado tanto oírlos a hablar en chavacano que he llorado de la emoción. Tengo una lista de cosas que quiero hacer antes de morir y en la lista he agregado una cosa más que quiero hacer antes de morir y es ir a filipinas y hablar en la calle con muchas personas que hablen chavacano y aprender un poco de chavacano. Su idioma el chavacano es una variante criolla filipina del español ámenlo cuídenlo conservenlo porque es un patrimonio invaluable solamente lo he oído desde hace pocos minutos y ya estoy enamorado de su idioma.

[@EricMartinezPH]

Estoy duper de acuerdo de la importancia de nuestra lengua de chavacano y es un orgullo nacional 🔥 Un abrazo hasta alla hermano ❤️🇵🇭

[@Jixsurez]

I gotta show this to my mom! Greeting from us Salvadorians! I always say that filipinos are my cousins since we both have spanish ^-^

[@deadpool113]

Philippines was part of Nueva Espsña along with Mexico, central america, southwest of the US and caribbean islands. Lots of their languages have spanish loan words and expressions. And some Filipinos are mixed with Spanish people. So it's nothing surprise that there are spanish creole bcuz actually lots of historical figures in Philippines spoke Spanish as their mother language. But still it's marvelous that part of Mindanao which has far less Spanish colony history than Visayas and Luzon has the only majorly spoken Spanish creole language. Unlike central parts of Mindanao, Zamboanga became part of spanish colony earlier. And authority used Zamboanga as their frontline of the colony and hub of asian trade. So they put so many Mexican and Peruvian soldiers and officers to Zamboanga. Also just like Singapore, being a trade city dragged other parts of Filipinos such as Hiligaynon and Cavite ppl. So diversity required common language that can communicate and they needed to communicate with Latinos and Spaniards so Zamboangueños started to speak somekinda inaccurate spanish that has Visayan grammatic features. It became Chavacano nowadays. And as the Colony extended to the deeper parts of Mindanao Zamboangueño became lingua franca of newly conquered Mindanao along with Visayan languages. That's why muslim majority regions in Mindanao has chavacano speakers even tho their hostility against christian Filipino regime.

[@francissantos7448]

Hey kids. I am soooo glad to stumble into your channels. Thanks you-tube and covid 19. I will absolutely follow this channel and the wonderful multilingual lady with you. I am a linguistcs fan and I can easily learn/practice using my old brain to be able to communicate with a new language....Chavacano. Rather than learning to speak Chavacano itself I will bridge it with Spanish. I can get by with tourist Spanish already so just a little immersion and a little more phrases might do the trick. I don't have problems with Taglish because I speak fluently the bilingual ends. I am hoping I can do that with Chavacano. Improve my Spanish and the Astronesian hardwired in my brain might allow me to fake Chavacano. I am pretty sure my version of Guatemala Spanish will get by in Zamboanga. Saludos.

[@user-mo9fz4tk2r]

Gracias, Eric y Anna. Muy interesante. Muy agradables (charming), ambos.

[@EricMartinezPH]

Gracias por vernos 🍻

[@primobenavides833]

My Grandmother was America native from Mexico. Maya from the Yucatan area. She spoke Spanish almost exactly like Chavacano. I was born and raised in Texas. I joined the Navy in 1972. I was stationed in Hawaii and met my spouse. She spoke English only. She was 3rd generation Filiipina. Did not know any other language except local slang pigeon English. I got orders to Spain. My spouse learned the Andalucian dialect in Cadiz Spain. I know how to speak Spanish. I grew up speaking Spanish in Texas and English is my second language. I could not understand or speak Andalucian. Later travelled about Spain I met people vacationing on Palma de Mallorca from Madrid. They overheard me trying to communicate in Spanish. They invited my spouse and I to join them. I could understand them. They asked where I was from. I told them I was from Texas. They informed me that the Spanish I was speaking was equivalent to an English man speaking Shakespearean. Forward to my spouse finally met my Maya grandma. My grandma thought my spouse was Maya. They both communicated like what Chavacano sounds like. We have never been to the Maya area of Mexico. I do not know if all the Maya people all speak Spanish that sounds like Chavacano.

[@JackofAllTrdadesMasterOfNone]

The truth is Mexicans arrived in the Philippines in 1600s during Manila-Acapulco Galleon trade. Mexicans were sent by Spain to oversee their colony in the Pacific in fact there is a name of a town in Pampanga province in the Philippines named "Mexico"

[@justw8nillbgr824]

English: the little boy is running. Chavacano: el niño misotoy.

[@bongmontano4213]

Bwahahaahha

[@adolfschicklgruberhitler4350]

Philippines: **Gains independence** I will declare Spanish as my official language United states: So you have chosen death?

[@_elle819]

😂

[@R.G.Willmore]

This is great!

[@R.G.Willmore]

Ang mahibal-an bahin sa Chavacano, ug sa katawhang Pilipino. 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@R.G.Willmore]

¿Se habla chavacano solo en la parte más meridional de Filipinas? 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[@anipereira9336]

Is nice, I like this video. Thank you

[@pedroalbertogarciabilbao1980]

A la srta. Anna cualquier español culto puede entenderla casi todo. Algunas formas de emplear el idioma que ella utiliza son estructuras antiguas del español. Es hasta hermoso poder escucharlas. Como el chabacano es un idioma criollo, es decir, fruto de una convivencia de dos o más lenguas simultáneamente, presenta variaciones importantes en el léxico (las palabras) o la estructura gramatical, pero creo que podríamos entendernos bien. Para entenderse lo que hace falta es voluntad de hacerse entender y comprender al otro. Desde España, un sincero saludo a Eric y a la señorita Anna. Gracias de nuevo.

[@NiX_aKi]

Pacio is also used. Donde is still used but younger people drop the D. Perdona comigo / dispensa Sabe tu combersa en/na espanyol?

[@PanciToriko]

Me encanta como hay tanta similitud entre los idiomas 😅 Gracias por compartir

[@DrewTheNomad]

Qué fascinante! Soy un Pinoy pero nací en Estados Unidos, y no sé hablar Tagalog, pero me enseñé Español desde el año pasado. Voy a viajar a Philippines pero no estuve segura cuál ciudad que quería visitar. Después ví este video, ahora yo sé que quiero ir a Ciudad de Zamboanga, entonces puedo hablar en español con los locales y tener una conversación con este idioma maravilloso 🤩

[@ruthnoemyramirezreasco576]

August Who Greetings Since Ecuadorian 🇪🇨🛩️🇵🇭🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@moshesierra6849]

I can see more Spanish with some Filipino Definitely Filipinos are our Asian cousins ( I’m a native Spanish speaker)

[@ungenx]

Deja conmigo solo! que divertido, it looks you guys have some italian mix also. muy interesante!

[@pedroalbertogarciabilbao1980]

Muchas gracias por este video, amigos. Sinceramente.

[@Ericson-vk6bx]

Los amo mi gente linda y sonriente de Filipinas 🤗❤️🇵🇭 saludos desde Lima Perú 🇵🇪✌️😎

[@carlosovni7100]

Tremendo video, ese español es prácticamente el mismo que el de mi isla.... saludos desde Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Chavacano para nosotros es como...que no coje nada en serio, que siempre está relajando.

[@diamantestres]

¡ feliz navidad y próspero año nuevo 2021 !

[@damianloder6080]

Very interesting video

[@ZZPAFF123]

En efecto, casi todo es español. Si habla despacio, un español podría comprender la mayor parte de que lo dice esa bella muchacha. Buen vídeo. Saludos.

[@wallacedasilva_ec]

Wow! Nunca había escuchado ese idioma. El chavacano suena como cuando alguien está intentando hablar español y no puede organizar las palabras.

[@EricMartinezPH]

Realmente es asi 👌

[@guerrerin76]

@@EricMartinezPH Es un lenguaje excepcional porque mantiene la gramática de un idioma de origen malayo pero casi la totalidad del vocabulario es español.

[@enriquemontesespinosa1027]

Es muy bueno tu video

[@angbagonghenerasyonmovemen4449]

Thank you! You remind my chavacano language.

[@wrldcurious]

I’m a native Spanish speaker and I agree with your guest about the similarities between the languages. I also noticed Portuguese in the Chabacano language. Thanks for the video and I’m now subscribing to your channel. Good job. 👍🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@EricMartinezPH]

So true!

[@rojmendoza5739]

I love you, ta ama yo kontigo. Kere yo kontigo is gusto kita

[@MysticTheStrider]

As a Filipino American that knows Tagalog and Bisaya/Cebuano growing up, it's crazy how "Hinay Hinay" is Cebuano/bisaya... so I'm guessing Chavacano uses bisaya words like same with illonggo. Just the grammar is different.

[@abrahamguerra2520]

Creo que aprenderia Chabacano viviendo un mes ahí 🤣😂

[@jairusbuyo3980]

Battle of the languages the most common will stand.. hope they can preserve it

[@LuisFelipe-tc5er]

Gracias muchas gracias

[@GR-le1ms]

She's so pretty

[@mau.egiziano]

¡Me encantó el video! todavía me sorprende que en Filipinas se habló español novohispano, se creó el chavacano y que además el Tagalo tiene palabras en español. Saludos desde Chile.

[@theaterofsouls]

actually most if not all languages in the Philippines have spanish words in them... haha

[@fernandodj328]

Tienen que recatarlo como educar a los ninos más para mejoren la evolucciónen y lo evoluciónen a un español perfecto

[@Ken-sr6eo]

@@theaterofsouls They have even tagalog we have spanish word like kutsara and more

[@RowelTVPH]

Buenas dias! Gracias na di tuyu video amigo

[@josemoran4974]

Me gusto mucho el video.

[@tagaislaako4260]

I have learned spanish for 4 semesters in college during Marcos regime. I can already speak spanish at that time. But during Cory's time spanish was removed in the curriculum and computer was introduced. Now seldom knows that philippine dialects have spanish words.

[@minoecole6447]

We have Spanish subject in Zamboanga

[@vf2929]

@@minoecole6447 wow Sana buong bansa!!!

[@marilynsantos9728]

Nakakainis talaga mga Aquino maganda matutunan Spanish dapat iabalik nila

[@Nj-xq6vw]

Maganda tlga pakinggan ang salitang chavacano at madali lng sya pgaralan. Kumbaga simple grammar lng sya ng spanish. Yo de zamboanga,aqui ta conversa el lengua materna chavacano.

[@skylarmoretti6562]

Anna somehow has less Chavacano vocabularies. Also, there are English words that chavacano doesnt have a direct translation.

[@Art_Travel_and_Hobbys]

Cool mixture of languages... 👍🏿

[@lorztiamsing6591]

When I was in my senior year in high school... we also had a Spanish subject, we even sing the Philippine anthem in Spanish.