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Filipinos are friendly and helpful when communicating in English with foreigners initially. However, challenges arise when their English skills are inadequate, as they become shy and stop talking or walk away. As an expat store owner, the author struggles when Filipino customers are too shy to enter when he is present alone, and some are offended that he does not speak Tagalog. He deals with these challenges by communicating in any way possible, such as using friendly gestures and smiles, but finds rudeness and interrupting the hardest cultural issues, especially in his own store.

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Interview

Filipinos are friendly and helpful when communicating in English with foreigners initially. However, challenges arise when their English skills are inadequate, as they become shy and stop talking or walk away. As an expat store owner, the author struggles when Filipino customers are too shy to enter when he is present alone, and some are offended that he does not speak Tagalog. He deals with these challenges by communicating in any way possible, such as using friendly gestures and smiles, but finds rudeness and interrupting the hardest cultural issues, especially in his own store.

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Communicating with Filipinos:

An Expat’s Confessions

November 14, 2019


1. What are your pleasant experiences in communicating with Filipinos?

Friendly ,helpful,willing to use their English skills at first.

They appreciate me using even a few words of tagalog.

2. What are the challenging situations you have encountered?


They get shy and stop talking as soon as their english is inadeqaute to
communicate their meaning, sometimes they just walk away.

I operate store with my filipino wife and some people are too shy to come in
when I am there.

Some are offended that I don’t speak tagalog and I also struggle with
cultural differences when dealing with customers.

3. How did you deal with these challenges?


Do my best to communicate in any way I can,g ive friendly source and smile
a lot.

The rudeness in not falling in line and interupting when I am dealing with a
customer is the hardest cultural issue I encounter in my store and when I am
shopping in other store and shops.

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