Filipino Tour Guide

I think one of the objectives of the Dpt of touris...

2010-12-01T05:46:33.040+08:00

I think one of the objectives of the Dpt of tourism should be to increase the numbers by alluring the Hispanic clientele. It´s 500 million people including the USA.
So far, you´re only concentrating on selling beaches, resorts, gambling and a little bit of nature and adventure tourism, and you have taken no acknowledgement of the Spanish heritage at all.
1.6 million arrivals is NOTHING

I understand where you're coming from, señor b...

2010-11-09T19:18:02.596+08:00

I understand where you're coming from, señor but to be accurate, I'm aware that there are 20,000 loaned words from Spanish. Words that shaped us into who we are today. A contribution that helped in enriching a culture.

I think that this should be acknowledged but the common reading of Philippine history has taught some present-day Filipinos to disdain anything from Spain, which

Señor Ocampo You say you know Tagalog, English and...

2010-11-08T00:52:50.547+08:00

Señor Ocampo
You say you know Tagalog, English and a bit of German... what you probably don´t realise is that you and most Filipinos (ignorantly) know more Spanish than you think.
Knowing tagalog gives you more than 4000 words that come from Spanish, but hard line tagalistas have long tried to erode that presence in tagalog by changing the morphology of many of those 4000 words.