Filipino Channel or any foreign TV channel for that matter

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rufff rufff rufffffff LOL! She is here, just adding in a lil bit of drama.

Phew..I thought you barked back it her and scared her away.

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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.

Dyesebel? About some mermaid? I remember because the first episode aired when I was last in the Philippines and my (now) niece loved it.

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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.

I have been trying to learn some basic tagalog words and phrases here lately... My Sarie has been very incouraging and helpful. I explained to her that I wanted to learn all of the 'basic' tagalog insults and curse words first so that if she was ever talking trash about me on the phone, that I would know it...

She then explained to me that if she wanted to, she would just use Cebuano and I would be clueless all over again...

She has me beat there... I admit it freely. Now, I focus on learning how to tell her how much I care for her and how to ask for food, beer, and food...

Small steps but I am trying!!!