I am sure not unlike the blank look I get when I try to joke with aking Asawa

 

Learning local lingo is worth the effort

G'day Tom, i must say "good onya" for learning some Local Lingo, The Filipino community will love you for it. Have been learning Tagalog and Visayan since even before I Married akong Negrene asawa in Marilao, Bulacan (20/03/09).How my wife and i happenned

Vocab is now a few hundred words in both languages.
Right from my 1st visit in March09 i learned the tagalog greetings for Good morn/miday/arvo/evenin etc
The SM security guards would thank me when i greeted them with Magandang umaga/hapon/gabi.
The Pinoys laughed at my early attempts at saying "SALAMAT", which i pronounced something like "salamander", but eventually, i got "salami" in my head and got it right.

Tom i notice that u use the Tagalog "my" (aking), you will have to start learning Visayan also/Din/Pud

Here are useful phrases:

Tagalog: Aking asawa maganda talaga
Visayan: Akong asawa gwapa jud

Tagalog: Mahal kita
Visayan: Nahigugma ko nimo

I said this at our wedding and reception, it went down VERY well:
Hindi kita iiwan, kasi mahal na mahal kita!
My pronounciation was woefull but the sentiment was applauded

Here are some Visayan phrases i learned because/kasi/tungudkay i heard them so often (kasi ako pasaway)
Dili ko ganahan!
Makalagot ka!
Maglagot ko nimo!

If you hear your asawa say these, you are in trouble

keep up the lingo learning bro

Prenilie's Bana