![]() – from a Kiwi colleague who’s worked across various industries. ![]() Definitely the preferred accent over those you mentioned (other Asian accents), it’s much easier to hear and understand. I recognise Filipino accents – I was a caregiver in a psychogeriatric hospital and a lot of the RN’s (registered nurses) were Filipino. The clipped vowels and exaggerated consonants and other peculiarities of our Pinoy accent are a mixture of the above influences and our own addition through the decades of course, but because we are also migrants, we add local flavor of the language of whichever host country we are in.Īnd guess what? Because of our natural facility in English, and our ability to “mirror” whatever accents we are frequently exposed to (in this case the New Zealand – Kiwi accent), we haven’t encountered a single negative reaction to how we sound or speak (although the sample size is small, just the non-Pinoys we interact and encounter with daily), and we compare very favorably to other Asian accents, which will go unmentioned today. Then if you listen to YouTube and global comedian Jokoy, though he is already an American, there are distinct traces of Filipino in his accent. It’s no big surprise that when you listen to tennis Grand Slammer Rafael Nadal he sounds oddly similar to Manny Pacquiao. even our constant trade with China and neighboring Southeast Asian nations have influenced our accent. Many historical factors have shaped our Pinoy accent, but for me the two major influences have been our being a colony of Spain and a member of the American Commonwealth for three and a half centuries. ![]() To be sure, the famous Filipino accent is subdivided into regional and provincial accents, but we all know the most popular parts of how our tongues roll and teeth click, and we know which are best remembered by our non-Pinoy friends. You know who’s accent these pronunciations belong to, because it’s the accent you grew up with, your beloved Pinoy (Filipino) accent. “Creative” syllabications like “good morNENG” and “good ibNENG”.
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