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?

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 The teaching of Spanish was revoked during my time and I was looking forward to learn the language myself then.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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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?