Learning Bisaya, LISOD!
Bisaya - thats what they call a person who speak Cebuano and grew up in Visayas or has a Visayan decendants, Cebuano is a dialect of different provinces in Visayas and in Mindanao.
I admit as a person who grew up in Metro Manila I find it too hard to learn bisaya and I wanna quit, lol! Well being married to a bisaya for seven years now is really really really hard for me. Just imagine everytime there will be an affair like birthdays, weddings, reunions or even only a visit of his relative in our house would be a big stressful experience for me. Yes I want to learn, yes I tried, yes I understand a little but you know specially if you know how to speak bisaya I know you know what I mean. When his relative talked too fast bisaya and when they do that I get lost, just imagine that and I just ended up nodding.
My husband really wants me to learn it, I tried. I learned and understand it but only a word per second please, lol! But you know when I am reading text messages from his family in Ozamiz, I understand everything but when conversing, no. I dunno what is my problem, maybe just the speed, hehehe. I was once advised by my friend to learn it to know if they are cursing or swearing me already or what, lol! But you know the first words that I asked my husband are all the bad words, so it wont escape my ear, lol!
I just want to share to you what I learned today:
what are you doing? - unsay imong gibuhat?
is it flooding there? - gabaha ba diha?
im leaving - lakaw sa’ko
and too many more that I wish I will remember everytime I needed it, lol!
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:46 am
You’re learning quick, Sis! hehe! I am from Mindanao and my father is Cebuano, and majority of the people here in our city speak Cebuanos. But we speak Tagalog at church. I can speak both fluently.
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admin reply on August 28, 2008 11:04 am:
i wish I can be fluent soon but the tones and the stops are kinda hard and is also similar to chinese like different tone means different meaning hehehe..
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August 28th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Tudluan tika Ate Joyce unsa-on pag sulti ug Binisaya.
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admin reply on August 28, 2008 9:14 pm:
bitaw!
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August 28th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
In my old job in the NGO world, we used to run trainings all over the country. I found that hindi naman mahirap maintindihan at matutunan ang bisaya as long as within a certain context. Pero syempre, outside of the training, medyo mas mahirap na ngang makaintindi.
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admin reply on August 28, 2008 10:01 pm:
cguro kung lahat ng tao sa paligid ko nagbibisaya madali siguro matandaan ang words hehe pero sa bahay kasi namin asawa ko lang ang marunong kaya nalilimutan ko din agad
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August 29th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Its not lisod sis … promise. It really is easy … and I guess I have almost the same problem with Tagalog hehehe I can understand very much of course but damn I just cant talk in Tagalog. Its so hard … huhuhu
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admin reply on August 30, 2008 12:46 am:
maybe what we really are not used to are whats hard for us, ga lisod ako ug binisaya hehehe..
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August 29th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Noon medyo tinituruan ako ng ofc mates ko pero Ilonggo. Natuto ng konti but when I transferred jobs, nawala na rin. Guisto ko rin Kapampangan kasi parang kumakanta!
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admin reply on August 30, 2008 12:46 am:
parang ojo kaluguran daka ang kinakanta mo ah hehehe..
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August 29th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
LOL… I’m from Negros, and I studied college in Cebu. The first time I rode a bus going to Cebu, I was amused with how the cebuanos talk to each other like they’re having a fight or argument… later I learned, it’s just the tone and the way they speak which is so different from the soft-spoken Hiligaynon (Ilonggo) dialect we have.
Anyway, I had to survive my first years of college in Cebu, so I kept a notebook with a list of cebuano terms especially the slangs. It helps to practice it even if you’re not that confident. I unknowingly used one bisaya word to sound like a pro and my boardmate laughingly told me it’s a swear word.
Just keep on practicing your bisaya! It may sound funny at the start but later on, you’ll be fluent in it soon!
ayo ayo!
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admin reply on August 30, 2008 12:54 am:
I should maybe start carrying a notebook soon too sis hehe what is hard with speaking bisaya is the word here, there, tomorrow, now, later, again (diri, didto, ugma, karon, unya, utro) sometimes i switch all those stuff when conversing. LoL!
one incident happened is i supposed to answer ugma but i said unya so they ended up showing in our house that day when it is still tomorrow, LOL!
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September 2nd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
hi JOyce, I know exactly what you mean.I am a bisaya myself and married to an American man,I’m somewhat the same in your situation.Yes,I understand english but when all Americans gather together and speak so fast,I get lost too.
But,when tagalogs talk? I can understand it.Lolz.. bisayans do understand tagalog pero hirap sa dila pag kami ay magsasalita na.
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joanjoyce reply on September 4, 2008 10:56 am:
i think it is easy to learn tagalog talaga than bisaya, lamo na six years na di pa din ako matuto e hehehe
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September 11th, 2008 at 8:49 am
i am bisaya and i must admit, its hard when we talk real fast. daghn man gud shortcuts like balay would be ‘bay, wala is ‘wa and so on and so forth..
anyway,its a fun language, (love ur own) ahahaha
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joanjoyce reply on September 11, 2008 1:38 pm:
sinabi mo pa sis di talaga ko makahabol pag ambibilis na magsalita e
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September 16th, 2008 at 11:36 am
mahirap ba talaga ang bisaya? eh ako, i have to learn tagalog na kasi pupunta na ako pampanga
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joanjoyce reply on September 18, 2008 10:24 pm:
kapampangan dapat pag aralan kasi sa pampanga ka pupunta hehehe.. mahirap talaga magbisaya ambilis kasi e
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