I am wondering whether your native language or some other language spoken in the Philippines is sufficient, even if you do not speak it all that well. “Okay at best” is likely to be, well, okay.
As one rather old example. I was originally from Montreal, but attended university in the US. The only “foreign” language that I ever spoke reasonably well was French. However, French is quite obviously not foreign at all for someone from Montreal. US universities did not seem to mind. French was foreign for them and therefore counted.
I do not know whether you could similarly get by with a language that is foreign to the American universities, but not actually foreign to you.