Non-native: how is english language in your country?

Originally Posted by Summonmaster

In the phillippines though, we also see the usage of English for certain words and concepts, where it would be harder to use a tagalog equivalent. I can't think of an example since I don't speak tagalog very well, but there is definitely the adaptation of certain words from English (eg. television = telebisyon).

It's funny, because the same happens in Brazil. Concepts such as a "sale" or a "drive-thru restaurant" or "hip-hop" or "delivery" just don't have portuguese equivalents. So English becomes more and more a part of Portuguese as globalization takes place.

Jam it back in, in the dark.