spanish language back to philippine schools in 2010

I'm a teacher in a public high school in my place and for the fact, there is a shortage in the number of teachers. Public High schools lacks teachers in some subjects so if a Spanish language subject is added, where would we get the teachers to teach in this new subject? And for the fact, students in the provinces where the local dialect is majorly spoken, they are having hard time in learning our own language (Filipino) and English, so why add a new language to learn?

Well having a spanish language added to curriculum would give an advantages and disadvantages. Its up for the government to cope up with the shortage of the teacher. I hope they will not put all the burden to the lower level teachers. Sometimes in public school its always the teacher who is in the lower level will handle a lot of more subjects. I just dont know for some. But if this will be implemented i hope government will need to take a look and resolve the issues that we are facing now with our quality of education. For personal view, Spanish language is what I'd love to speak rather than english. I find if more fascinating and romantic if you speak the spanish language. According to them our accent is quite near in the spanish accent than in american accent. If we speak the spanish langauge we would sounded spanish.

I was not even aware there was a need for the spanish language to be taught in the Phillipines. Do you have a large spanish speaking population in your country or something? Here in the U.S. spanish is taught in schools and if a second language is present on a document, packaging, etc, it is usualy spanish. What gets me is that I live about 60 miles from the Quebec, Canada border. We get a LOT of french speakers comming through my state and yet still, schools and state government offices push spanish as the second language. There are proabably a maximum of maybe 10 people in the entire northern half of my state who speak spanish as a first language....I just don't get it.

If this is true I feel so sorry for my son because he is having a hard time speaking Tagalog and now they will add Spanish. I wish the government gave us the freedom to vote if we want Spanish or not in High School. Isn't what democratic country is all about?

I am in favor of reinstating the Spanish Language in our curriculum. The teaching of Spanish was revoked during my time and I was looking forward to learn the language myself then. In the age of globalization, it is favorable that we learn another language aside from Tagalog and English. I remembered a recruiter in a recruitment and retention learning session, having difficulty getting Spanish-speaking call center agents (younger take note). So they resorted to hiring seniors who speaks fluent Spanish.

wow that would be great.Im a Filipino but I speak business level in Spanish.I even found Spanish more interesting than English, maybe because we dont consider it as a second language anymore. Filipinos speaking English and Spanish in the near future?wow!

Well I guess historically, we can say that the Spanish influence can barely be felt in us because American culture is a more popular choice nowadays. I think that Spain is trying to revive their lost heritage here in the Philippines. We cannot blame that to us Filipinos since we were enslaved for 3 centuries and so far we hated them for doing so. Reviving the language might not be that very attractive to many and it may even become a burden to many students as well as teachers because that means they have to relearn this lost language already. What is now popular is Chinese influence because there are many Chinese Schools sprouting around. The schools are known to produce a very productive student because it is believe that Chinese are more business oriented that is why their schools seemed to be more attractive to many and they say that learning Chinese is advantageous since many businessman nowadays are Chinese speaking as well.

i really think that we can use the funds given by the spanish government for better use but it is their money so they can do as they please. i don't mind students learning another language. imagine, the expenses one must cough up if he/she wants to learn a foreign language so getting it free, albeit , only spanish, is a good one in my opinion. maybe, they can introduce spanish class as an elective much similar to home education class or workshop. by doing so, it ensures that those students who will tkae the class are the ones who are really interested making learning spanish an actual 'interest' rather than a 'boring subject'. just my two cents.

If Spanish language will be integrated again in the curriculum, I think the school will have to train teachers to handle the subject. Personally, I wanted to learn at least two additional languages, I wish to study French and Spanish, I always viewed it as a great advantage having to learn different languages, lots of opportunities coming along the way. So it is a good news to all.

i studied basic spanish when i was in college and for me, the language is easy to understand and learn. why? because there are common words that we are using nowadays that originally came from spanish vocabulary. i think the problems that we can encounter in studying spanish are first: the gender of the things. (el for male, la for female) second: conjugation of verbs - it needs the power of memorizing. hahaha! for me it's okay to include it in curriculum hahahaha! for sure the students' will disagree since they will have "additional" subject to study! hahahaha

The only problem I see is that the addition of spanish will make it hard for students to study since they have more on their plate than ever before. I just hope that the students who learn will enjoy their learning of spanish. I have tried to study spanish myself using a cd but lacked the time so I stopped. The cd program had a lot of distracting graphics that I couldn't memorize what I was learning. I like the learning tool to be simple and effective.

It would be great if this project will push through, it will also enables jobs for the teachers, and I think it will not do harm from learning english. Learning new languages will make you more opportunity.

I like that, I also want to learn spanish language because aside of i wanted to go one of the europe country their language is not so hard to learn (I think). And our country was been colonize by the spaniards before, that's why some of our culture or language is from the spaniards. Like in Zamboanga, there language there is Chavacano (is my spelling right), a half spanish and half zamboaggenio i think. But the problem is the government have a budget for this?

As I said in another post. Spanish is not only the 3rd most spoken language around the world. It might overtake English in a matter of years because the Spanish-speaking population is growing faster than pretty much anything. I may sound a bit "biased", that's because Spanish is my first language and I think it's a beautiful language. Im glad that the philiphino people will have the opportunity to learn this language. Im pretty sure you won't regret it.

Oww...too bad I missed that! I'm already a college graduate. I wanted to learn Spanish and I have no time to study yet. I also am trying to learn other languages that I would like to learn before studying Spanish. I feel all right though since our language borrowed words from their language. I don't know the reason why they would implement this though. It's all right but I don't think it's necessary.

LOL that is a nice line there :-) I went to school in those times when Spanish was still taught in schools ( long time ago, eh?) I had it also in 4th yr HS and Spanish 1-4 in the university. I find Spanish a beautiful language and i learned that many words from my Bisaya dialect are derived from this language. But it did not serve me any purpose though. I have not seen or met any chance to use the language. But it sure is nice to understand simple words - just like what you have written above :-) When the dept of education sees it to be important to have it back in the curriculum, why not. The more one learns, the better! Its just a matter of welcoming knowledge.