Filipino Channel or any foreign TV channel for that matter

[DEDixon 39]

How do you stand it when you can't understand what they are saying? To me, it is like a dog barking.... would get on my nerves.

I said "would" because we don't have the channel (filipino) and we don't watch any TV at all except for netflix movies, but my wife sometimes listens to stuff on the web. I gave her a headset so I wouldn't have the hear the yack, yack, yack... bark, bark, bark!

[Peikko 1,575]

What's your point, exactly? There should not be foreign language anything because you find it annoying?

[SMOKE 1,426]

What's your point, exactly? There should not be foreign language anything because you find it annoying?

http://pinoychannel.tv/

watch a little of that. it'll make you english-tagalog-english-visaya-tagalog-english..all in 5-10 minutes during the same show...it is annoying.

[_Simpson_ 250]

Mostly what I saw in the Philippines was American tv shows and whatnot, I do remember one filipina soap opera that the maids loved to watch. It took place underwater I think with some sort of fish people, I always wondered how they could take it seriously but they did and watched every night. Maybe somebody here knows the show im talking about.

Edited July 14, 2009 by looking_up

[mawilson 2,133]

What's your point, exactly? There should not be foreign language anything because you find it annoying?

I agree. Foreign languages should be banned.

[trinket 30]

I don't watch t.v in general, but I do watch Hindi movies time to time, also Bengali songs and I watch live broad casted Hindi and English news everyday on my laptop.

My husband doesn't have much say about what I watch, he actually enjoys Hindi songs. A lot of times he watches the news with me, English one though and the other day when I was watching a Hindi movie, he sat with me and watched, I was being a translator. I think I would be offended if he would say my language is dog barking.

You are married to someone of a different culture, so doesn't accepting their language, culture comes within the territory? Do you get out of the house when your wife talks with her relatives on phone?

[DEDixon 39]

What's your point, exactly? There should not be foreign language anything because you find it annoying?

Since this is the off topic forum and open to any topic, I was simply asking a question. For me, it is annoying, but it is ridiculous to insinuate that I am suggesting that "there should not be foreign language anything" as you so childishly put it.

[SMOKE 1,426]

it was a joke dude.

[_Simpson_ 250]

I don't watch t.v in general, but I do watch Hindi movies time to time, also Bengali songs and I watch live broad casted Hindi and English news everyday on my laptop.

My husband doesn't have much say about what I watch, he actually enjoys Hindi songs. A lot of times he watches the news with me, English one though and the other day when I was watching a Hindi movie, he sat with me and watched, I was being a translator. I think I would be offended if he would say my language is dog barking.

You are married to someone of a different culture, so doesn't accepting their language, culture comes within the territory? Do you get out of the house when your wife talks with her relatives on phone?

I would suggest not only accepting there language but also learning your SO's language.

[DEDixon 39]

I don't watch t.v in general, but I do watch Hindi movies time to time, also Bengali songs and I watch live broad casted Hindi and English news everyday on my laptop.

My husband doesn't have much say about what I watch, he actually enjoys Hindi songs. A lot of times he watches the news with me, English one though and the other day when I was watching a Hindi movie, he sat with me and watched, I was being a translator. I think I would be offended if he would say my language is dog barking.

You are married to someone of a different culture, so doesn't accepting their language, culture comes within the territory? Do you get out of the house when your wife talks with her relatives on phone?

My question isn't about acceptance, it is about whether or not it gets on anyone's nerves.

I'm not sure why you would be offended if your husband said your language "is dog barking" since we can't understand a dog when a dog barks and can't understand when we hear a foreign; it is just a metaphor, no reason to get offended. I wouldn't be offended if a non-english speaker said the same thing about English. Hearing a foreign language spoken in passing is fine, but when it is non-stop (like on the TV), to me, it equates to the next neighbor's dog barking nonstop.

[mawilson 2,133]

I don't watch t.v in general, but I do watch Hindi movies time to time, also Bengali songs and I watch live broad casted Hindi and English news everyday on my laptop.

My husband doesn't have much say about what I watch, he actually enjoys Hindi songs. A lot of times he watches the news with me, English one though and the other day when I was watching a Hindi movie, he sat with me and watched, I was being a translator. I think I would be offended if he would say my language is dog barking.

You are married to someone of a different culture, so doesn't accepting their language, culture comes within the territory? Do you get out of the house when your wife talks with her relatives on phone?

I would suggest not only accepting there language but also learning your SO's language.

He's already fluent! Yack, yack, yack... bark, bark, bark!

[DEDixon 39]

What's your point, exactly? There should not be foreign language anything because you find it annoying?

http://pinoychannel.tv/

watch a little of that. it'll make you english-tagalog-english-visaya-tagalog-english..all in 5-10 minutes during the same show...it is annoying.

Yeah, they say just enough in English for you to tune in a little then bam, back to Tagolog. I feel so left out... and annoyed!

[DEDixon 39]

I don't watch t.v in general, but I do watch Hindi movies time to time, also Bengali songs and I watch live broad casted Hindi and English news everyday on my laptop.

My husband doesn't have much say about what I watch, he actually enjoys Hindi songs. A lot of times he watches the news with me, English one though and the other day when I was watching a Hindi movie, he sat with me and watched, I was being a translator. I think I would be offended if he would say my language is dog barking.

You are married to someone of a different culture, so doesn't accepting their language, culture comes within the territory? Do you get out of the house when your wife talks with her relatives on phone?

I would suggest not only accepting there language but also learning your SO's language.

I can't learn it - really. I wish I could. A few years ago, I tried super hard to learn Spanish, but failed. I remembered words, but I couldn't form a sentence to save my life and I couldn't understand native speakers unless they spoke in individual key words really slow.

I think I could learn Spanish if I lived in say Costa Rica where most of the time, I'd have to speak it. Little by little, I think I could learn it. But, the trouble with Tagalog is that those who know it, usually also know English so reverting to what each of us know for convenience usually prevails.

[trinket 30]

What's your point, exactly? There should not be foreign language anything because you find it annoying?

http://pinoychannel.tv/

watch a little of that. it'll make you english-tagalog-english-visaya-tagalog-english..all in 5-10 minutes during the same show...it is annoying.

Yeah, they say just enough in English for you to tune in a little then bam, back to Tagolog. I feel so left out... and annoyed!

I wanted to be sarcastic with how I answer you, but then it wouldn't be a mature thing to do, so let me wear that maturity cap and say a few things anyways.

--Sure a lot of things annoys us, BUT who feels more left out? You the American living in US who has to endure taglog once in a while or your Fillipino wife who has left everyone and those taglog shows are actually comforting for her? Makes her feel she isn't that far away from her roots.

--Dog barking, at least from the culture I come from is kind of an insulting phrase to say to someone, so yes I would be offended if my husband would say -- to him my language feels like its all yapping. But thankful that day will never come, as he is considerate enough and lets me enjoy things which makes me happy.

About annoying thing, sure there are many American things which annoys the hell out of me, and there are many Indian things which annoys the hell out of my husband, but that doesn't mean I will go on insulting those. If I didn't like ABC thing, I would just stay away from it.

And personally foreign language doesnt' really annoy me, I remember watching a Spanish movie a few years back without any subtitles, actually me and my grandma watched it together and we both enjoyed the movie, I still remember the story of it, just because it was foreign, it didn't feel like dogs barking to me.

And there have been a lot of times when I used to watch some English flick and my grandma who doesn't know English would sit with me and watch, sometimes I would translate but most of the times she would know whats going on.

[bulaklak 0]

If her native language annoyed you perhaps you shouldn't married her in the first place.

and if her language is sounds like a dog to you,then probably you married to a dog like?

Edited July 14, 2009 by lotus101