r/Filipino

(TL;DR:my girlfriend speaks Bisaya dialect of Tagalog, I wanna learn how to speak it as well to surprise her)

Okay, so a tiny bit of backstory:my girlfriend is Filipino. If we wind up staying together through prom (high school relationships are super fickle cuz classes.) I wanna try asking her to go with me in it. She specifically stated the dialect is Bisaya, she learned it from her family. She absolutely adores her heritage, and I want to surprise her by learning how to speak the same language as her. If anyone knows any apps that are good or anything, please tell me

Due to the catálogos alfabético de apellidos (1849), Filipinos were forced to take a surname from the Spanish decree and nowadays, Filipinos can barely track back their real surnames and the meaning behind them. Our names tell stories and it would mean a lot to my partner and I if we could find out what my unique last name could be of.

We have tried everything from scratch, google searches and AI.

Does anyone know how we could discover our real Filipino surnames?

I just wanted to ask something that suddenly sparked my curiosity. I’ve heard that most Filipinos in the Philippines go through circumcision, so I was wondering if it’s still commonly practiced in other Filipino-American households too. Do they usually have it done at birth or during their teenage years, like in the Philippines? Or is it true that a lot of people there don’t really practice it anymore?

I’m also curious about how that part of Filipino culture is usually perceived, both by Filipino-Americans and by others in general. I grew up pretty confused about it myself, but I never really bothered talking to my family about it, so I’ve always been curious.

I’m not Filipino, my husband is half Filipino. We are having our first baby and his mom insists her grandma name be “mommy Lola” the mommy part rubs me the wrong way, as I plan to go by mommy/mama to my baby. Why not just Lola? Is this a norm in the culture?

like the viral song these days you know ? i want to use this phrase in a rap verse that im writing for school (i also hope this doesnt offend anyone because it goes so well with the rhymes 😅). Google says it means "dont tell anyone" is it correct ?