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EVEN in the first two decades of American colonization of the Philippines, Filipinos were already teaching English to fellow Filipinos. The late Br. Andrew Gonzalez said that this was the moment when Philippine English was born. True enough, as the American colonial government-commissioned Monroe survey was implemented, they found out that Filipino children learned English quite well and quite fast, but they spoke a different kind of English, different from their American peers. Understandably, for quite some time, it was simply referred to as a different kind of English. It was the late Prof. Teodoro Llamzon, who after studying linguistics in the United States came back to the Philippines (and who eventually became one of the pillars of Philippine linguistics), noticed for himself that Filipinos indeed spoke differently from Americans.

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