Is there really a diction problem among Bisayas when it comes to ENGLISH?

[james52]

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It doesn't matter what language you speak, to be able to speak a good English it would take a lot of listening, a lot of reading, a lot of learning. I have heard a lot of Cebuano's speak good English but some has flaws, i mean, we all are. We cant blame ourselves, learning this foreign language is a long process. If we will compare ourselves with our Manila counterpart, i guess we are all the same. But we need to be proud of ourselves too, We Filipinos are better English speakers than the English themselves, as they say. We are the only nationality who can fake the American accent...But everything boils down to how we learn this language, and to get to where we want to achieve, lets face it, We need good English teachers too.

[RheaAbz.]

IMHO, basing from my own personal experience, visayans can speak better english with almost no accent than tagalogs. Their counterparts when they speak obvious kaayo ang accent. Listen to Kris Aquino speak. She can speak english fluently but with very strong tagalog accent. Its no big deal ang importante, masabtan ka. Because even Americans, they dont care how you deliver your words. The most important thing is that you get your point across.

i strongly agREEEE!!......

[masterjanuarius]

paranaque accent? bwahahaha! kapampangan naa pud! mga ilocano kung mag tagalog gahi man pud ug dila diba?

haha .. you should listen to the "natives" of parananque when they do the "comedia" bro .. hehe .. mura sad na ug sa cebu: ang cebuano sa ciudad di pareho ug accent o twang sa dalaguete, western side, or mindanaons or negros .. sus, it takes only a little bit of listening to figure out the difference ..

[cebulifer]

next time im in manila. i will try to listen carefully.

[masterjanuarius]

next time im in manila. i will try to listen carefully.

that's good bro. suggestion: go to the palengke of la huerta, parananque. it's fun hearing these people speak tagalog musically .. or *****g, rizal, but even binangonan, rizal is already fun to listen ..

[phyler]

in my call center days, one of the complaints during a call back is that
"they don't understand the OTHER GUY..."
of course we apologize...
and when we look at the previous call, 'twas routed in Manila and answered by one of our Manila counterparts. mostly around 90%.
there is very little or no complaint about english on cebu reps, only technicalities.

what do we have? a more or less irate caller!

[e_mer8]

Naay koy kauban sa trabaho sauna nga taga ilocos, kung mokanta siya mas gahi pa cebuano.

[cebulifer]

heard about the bumperrr to bumperrr ilocano joke? hehehe! must be heard. walay epek kung sa post!

[ronz_rodz]

kay naanad man gud mag talk sa bisaya.. if ma practice tan.awa lang .. mas maayo pa mag pronounce kaysa mga americano/na

[cebulifer]

yeah. i have talked with some americans and I can barely understand them.