Why dont the philippines adopt spanish as their secondary language?

Exactly what I'm thinking. Westerners are always wondering why Filipinos aren't fluent in Spanish while other countries which had been colonized by Spain speak Spanish now. Personally, I would love to adopt it as a second language, and if I'm a legislator, I would push hard for it, but apparently, Filipinos today don't care or don't want to care about learning Spanish. Others are still angry with the conquerors, but if you think of it, many great Filipino heroes speak Spanish then. Fluently. Honestly, it's making me feel frustrated. I prefer the Spanish influences than Americans'.

It's 3rd*

1. Because we have our own language/s

2. There are other cultures before the Spaniards came. Many of the language's words were taken and influenced by other Malay countries at the same time greatly influenced by the Chinese too.

3. Ancestors thought that speaking Spanish was rude.

4. Maybe because of the bad history.

5. in the revolt era, they used to use the Filipino language for secret codes so the spanish won't understand them at all.

6. In the time of the us colonization, people gradually learned how to speak English and several people from the newer generation was unable to learn Spanish.

How many languages do you think they were able to learn at the same time anyway?

XD

There are also a lot of Spanish loan words in the languages too.

truthfully, it fairly is an fairly exciting concern why Spanish did no longer grew to develop into our sturdy language interior the Philippines or we Filipinos did no longer even understand the thank you to speak spanish yet we are colonized by potential of Spain for 3 hundred years. interior the early cases, i assume our forefathers communicate Spanish yet no longer their sturdy language per se. President Manuel Quezon speaks fluent Spanish in the time of the 1930's. i assume 2 issues, because of the fact the Spaniards are abusive it fairly is the reason that's no longer spoken by potential of the Filipinos and the daybreak of the yankee impact has only approximately closes the doorways for Filipinos to verify Spanish through American way of lifestyles and ROCK 'N ROLL hits and character like Elvis Presley and others. it fairly is the reason each physique communicate English now even paying for toron or balut or fish ball interior the line they asked HOW lots is this BALUT... SHALL I TUHOG TUHOG THIS FISH BALL .....? it fairly is our lost truthfully if in basic terms we are able to speak 2 languages different than for Pilipino of our very own, like Spanish and English(study & write) we are able to invade the Latin American international places such as you pronounced right here Mexico, Argentina, Panama, Ecuador, Portugal, and so on....shall we are saying we Filipinos are the electorate of the international.

They should. So many Filipinos have Spanish names and surnames, and Tagalog has many Spanish words. But for some reason they seem to prefer American things.