Currently, learning a foreign language with foreign teachers, especially teachers from the Philippines, is no longer too strange for Vietnamese students in particular and Asian students in general. However, there are still some parents and students who do not have much time to learn about this option, so Fast Language would like to dedicate this article to provide more experiences drawn from working, studying, and then recruiting Filipino teachers.
Filipinos in general and Filipino English teachers in particular have very impressive English proficiency
About 10 years ago, when I had the opportunity to participate in a telecommunications infrastructure project in which I worked with a group of Filipino colleagues, my initial impression of them was their "very good" and very consistent foreign language skills.
Previously, my understanding was quite limited that only Singapore in Southeast Asia was fluent in foreign languages.
After further research, I learned that the Philippines ranks first or second in the world in the Call Center industry. In short, when you call the switchboard of multinational companies, most of the people who answer the phone in English are Filipinos!
Yes, they use foreign languages fluently, pronounce clearly, are easy to hear and understand, and they communicate in English so fluently and naturally that it is difficult to recognize that they come from a Southeast Asian country whose national language is not English.
This has actually been internationally recognized for a long time, it's just a little embarrassing that the author of this article also knew quite late. Interested parents and students can refer to the Education First's English Proficiency Index (EPI), the Philippines is always ranked very high in Southeast Asia and ranked very well globally.
Apart from the fact that the Philippines was once a colony of the United States, a closer reason explaining their foreign language ability is that almost all subjects in the Philippines are taught in English.
This may be somewhat controversial, Filipinos use English so much that it is almost difficult to find a daily conversation that they use entirely in Tagalog (the national language of the Philippines), almost every passage encounters English in it.
If you have ever traveled in the Philippines, you can easily recognize that information, signs, commercials, etc. are all in English. So it can be temporarily compared that Filipinos are favored to learn the international curriculum from a young age, so sometimes they use international languages more comfortably than their native language.
With Filipino English teachers, it is not uncommon for them to communicate at a level close to that of native speakers, speaking both posh British and American accents.
Source: https://www.humanresourcesonline.net/, 5 Asian countries with the highest English proficiency 5 Asian countries with the highest English proficiency
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