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

Originally Posted by Minoko

English is taught starting from elementary (private) until the end of highschool..I'm not sure about college..Filipino is also taught..even until College. We use SRA (forgot what it stands for) in grade school for reading , we also have that 2 a year book report..and we study grammar in Language...by Highschool we start studying stories...and reviewing grammar..we even had romeo and juliet for a time... Anglo-saxon literature...and some english stories made by Filipinos at the time of Japanese occupation.

Oy! I had SRA too back in elementary.

So anyway, English is the secondary language of the Philippines. And for that, the Philippines is considered the best English-speaking (in terms of pronounciation) country in South-East Asia. Although that does not mean that most Filipinos can speak proper or perfect english.

For example, here in my province (Cebu, Philippines), although many can write gramatically correct english, most have difficulty pronouncing it right. For example, "soft", "soup", and "soap", are all pronounced as "soop" by the common dude.

Usually college-level/graduate people can speak almost-perfect english, but you can still notice the accent. Unless you work at a call center, then that's the time one can speak a neutral american accent.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

What the hell did you just say?

sugoi desu!

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