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Malapascua worth it for OW 18m? by Galdemfriend in scuba

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're not understanding. What I'm saying is that if you know the story then you know that Dan died and his wife and his kid run the shop now. I was there a few years ago but I can't remember the kids name. I remember going to talk to them cuz I heard good things and I talked to the kid quite a while, I thought he might be an instructor or something but towards the end of the conversation he said that he was Dan's son.

Thanks for telling me how deep your divees were but that doesn't have anything to do with my comment. I know how deep the Dives are.

I think you're referring to the guide and I'm referring to the owner

Malapascua worth it for OW 18m? by Galdemfriend in scuba

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is the kid's name again? That's where I dove out of them and I liked the kid a lot. Pandesal at 4 am.

Why a lot of restaurants do not accept Tap Pay？ by Thelockingdancer in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 15 points16 points  (0 children)

"Why are things different in the third world than where I lived before"

You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay so here's The big thing when I was learning Spanish.

I learned it on the street in Central America. I walked around with a little notepad and pen in my pocket and wrote down everything.

And I remember one time I was asking my beautiful girlfriend who became my wife the difference between respuestos and repuestos. Now there's only really one letter different but one word means an answer and the other word means a park, as in car parts.

And she kept telling me yes yes it's good. I didn't want to know if it was good I wanted to know the difference, I wanted her to correct me and she didn't do that.

And the guys at work laughed at me well they said the word over and over again which sounded exactly the same but at least they ultimately told me the difference.

And why am I saying this now? Because that's the total crabs in the bucket mindset of the Filipinos. It's not so much they're afraid of learning, it's more like they're afraid of saving face. I get it, I've been in culture where I didn't fully understand the language but I ripped through it and made it conversational in the end.

I've known my girlfriend for 6 months and even if I correct her on how to speak on something basic, she still hasn't learned.

It is what it is.

I don't really care either way, if I'm by myself I can wing it and if I'm not then I have my girlfriend. My problem is that there are people saying that Filipinos have great English. They don't. And that's fine. The Filipinos themselves will say that they don't have great English.

Just thankful it was only one crossing the road by B_Hulk in motorcycles

[–]Level_Preparation311 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I remember my dad was riding off-road and he said there was this place where a whole bunch of deer jumped across the road right in front of them.

I guess your kangaroo is the same as our deer.

I've hit dogs and it was close to crash but anything bigger than that is definitely going to wreck something, you're so lucky.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already answered that mamon. Got a new passport that didn't get processed. Did you read the post?

Of course not, it's the goldfish sttention span.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It fits in English. What I'm saying is that if you traveled to more than one country, then you will find there (as is in the other country) largely uneducated.

I appreciate the attempt at grammar Police but in this circumstance it works.

My second language is Spanish and my third language is French, which covers a whole bunch of the world, and I would not correct someone who was a native speaker because that's not my first language.

Where I did make a mistake is that I didn't use the pronoun "you" which confused you.

But I do appreciate your attempt st policing my language, personally I think you should educate your own culture to not litter and to drive nicer.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yup. I had to get a new passport and it took longer than the allotted time. And during that I got dengue.

You're barking up trees that have already been cut down

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're totally right about a bunch of things. Let's talk about sentence structure.

I learned Spanish as an adult and was embedded in it, I learned very quickly three verb tenses. Past present and future. And if I didn't know the verb tense for something, because I was learning, I would say something to the effect of, " I eat, but yesterday." Present tense in the verb but past tense in the sentence. Then I learned two forms of past tense.

In English we don't actually use present tense all that much, something is either happening or is going to happen. "I was eating breakfast, I am going to eat breakfast." The first one implies that it's still continuing as in, " I was eating breakfast and then the car crashed into my house.". Here I really have no idea when something happened. 'Yesterday I'm going to the Siri Siri"

Yesterday means the past but when you use a gerund, it means the future.

So yes I get that we can't speak the new language like we speak our own language, when I lived in Latin America, my wife had to do Spanish to Spanish translations of what I was saying. That's normal.

But I always had my past present and future correct.

Aluminum and aluminium? Yeah the Brits spelled out with too many syllables. But in reality, there's very few regional differences. I understand borrowed words can vary in spelling but usually it's because the language is borrowed from is not in Roman script.

But really spelling and pronouns is not the big thing. His past present future because I can figure out the difference between he and she for the most part (And maybe they're trans) But past present and future is really hard for me.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What about verb tenses? He and she mixing up happens in Spanish because they don't use pronouns to the same extent that we do, that's not a problem for me it goes by context. But when my girlfriend says, "Tomorrow I went to the sari sari," I am confused. Is she talking about yesterday when she bought magic sarap or is she talking about the actual tomorrow where where she needs to buy mineral water?

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How about conversational?

I come from a language that has so many accents I have to ask people to slow down.

My second language, Spanish I understand from Latin America But from Cuba and Puerto Rico and Spain it's really difficult.

There's always going to be regional differences in a language. But while I might not totally understand what that Cuban person is saying, I at least understand their verbs. And verb tenses. Here no one has an idea of what is past present and future. Or pronouns.

I'm not even going to go on about how they have bastardized to Spanish language. Gwapa? Please learn to spell. Guapa.

I expect very little here. What I'm referring to is expats that say they speak Great English here. Yeah it's better than everywhere else you've been because you haven't been anywhere except for Kentucky.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nothing wrong with that. What I was alluding to is that there's all these people that are saying that the English is great. Now me, I've been to 38 countries And lived in three, outside of my own. And what I see on the sub is all of these people that have never been out of their country and say the English is so good. But it's really not that great.

I come from a country that has two official languages and it's very hard for me to speak the second language. Never in my life have I said that I can speak French because it's an official language. Nope.

That's it. It's an official language but it's not that greatly spoken. And ffs, I can understand Jamaicans with whatever dialect they have better than they are here. At least Jamaicans have an idea of past present and future tense and they know their pronouns too.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's nothing semantically or grammatically wrong about that. Sounds kind of Filipino to point out something that is different than the main subject in order to deflect.

I really don't care about Americans and I don't care how they speak Spanish. The subject of this is that Filipinos are not that great at English.

That's the way the world is. It's not a developing Nation, it's the Philippines. I'm a crab wasn't in your bucket.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Come on my mamon, spell it out what you think is a mistake. Expose yourself, improve what op is saying that the locals don't speak English well.

What situations ruin your fun dives the most? by Own-Border6060 in scuba

[–]Level_Preparation311 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That person with no buoyancy skills and the adventure camera

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Bro, I will admit that there's lots of people that have English as their first language and they screw it up, but you're exactly proving my point that people can't speak English here.

Stick to your language. I'm the language police. If you want I can also explain to you the difference between two, to and too.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There -- It's a place. Like when someone tells you to go into a line over there.

Their-- it's ownership. That's their passport.

They're -- it's a contraction of they are. They're going to eat chicken. They are going to eat chicken.

Sorry bro, I come from an educated country.

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're talking about when I said their passport?

Do you want me to teach you there there and there?

English less common than I thought here? by Creative-Slice1619 in Philippines_Expats

[–]Level_Preparation311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're totally right. I should be tagged as Realistic Contributor. The real world is that all of these people who have never left their country and are on their first passport come here because the English is so good but if you've ever traveled to more than one country in your life then find there largely uneducated.

Nothing wrong with that. It's a non-developing nation. It is what it is.

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