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Post by buhi on Dec 1, 2016 9:05:29 GMT 7
Early morning ramble, well early for me.
Hats off to those farang who can speak Thai. I understand about 50%, but resort to Tenglish to communicate.
Was with Nok, rgs , not bird, rambutan. yesterday evening. An old friend. Lucky Boy has two substitute fathers, Nok, was there for him long before I arrived here. Rambutan is a simple,guy, no do not get me wrong, a simple straight forward guy, not a fool. He has never married, is not a pervert, just is himself, the way he has chosen.
We as usual, discussed education in Thailand. He initiated the conversation, not I.
Young Mac ( old Mac) was with us and his new girlfriend. I suppose that is how we meandered into the conversation. Nok, Rambutan, stated very clearly, he works in a 5 star hotel, thus can speak English and Chinese and Korean, how Thai are too lazy to learn. He said it, not me. I defended Thai, explained it was the fault of Thai education, a war I have fought for twenty years.
We reached no conclusion, but agreed.
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Post by buhi on Dec 1, 2016 10:11:30 GMT 7
I missed Japanese, my friend Gop the frog was with us , he who was sent to head quarters in Japan , to train. He too agreed.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 11:37:05 GMT 7
It's not the education departments fault if the students are lazy.
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Post by buhi on Dec 1, 2016 12:23:39 GMT 7
It's not the education departments fault if the students are lazy. Yes it is, make learning interesting, a joy. I have never taught a boring lesson. And yes, always prepared, not winging it, as I have heard other teachers say. Learning never ends, a lust for life. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2016 12:28:22 GMT 7
It's not the education departments fault if the students are lazy. Yes it is, make learning interesting, a joy. I have never taught a boring lesson. And yes, always prepared, not winging it, as I have heard other teachers say. Learning never ends, a lust for life. I'm sure your lessons were never dull Mr Buhi. |
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Post by smokie36 on Dec 1, 2016 12:36:52 GMT 7
My old French teacher used to teach us for half an hour or so then the lesson would turn into a q&a session.....usually leading into a story of his on something or other. His classes were a joy but this is a senior level....as junior kids we used to be shit scared of him  ...a carefully crafted look he had about him! |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Dec 1, 2016 21:37:12 GMT 7
Early morning ramble, well early for me.
Hats off to those farang who can speak Thai. I understand about 50%, but resort to Tenglish to communicate.
Was with Nok, rgs , not bird, rambutan. yesterday evening. An old friend. Lucky Boy has two substitute fathers, Nok, was there for him long before I arrived here. Rambutan is a simple,guy, no do not get me wrong, a simple straight forward guy, not a fool. He has never married, is not a pervert, just is himself, the way he has chosen.
We as usual, discussed education in Thailand. He initiated the conversation, not I.
Young Mac ( old Mac) was with us and his new girlfriend. I suppose that is how we meandered into the conversation. Nok, Rambutan, stated very clearly, he works in a 5 star hotel, thus can speak English and Chinese and Korean, how Thai are too lazy to learn. He said it, not me. I defended Thai, explained it was the fault of Thai education, a war I have fought for twenty years.
We reached no conclusion, but agreed.
The ploblem buhi is, its not nok, it starts with a ngo ngu learning to read Thai makes things so much simpler. เงาะ = rambuttan. นก = bird. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 1:58:57 GMT 7
It's a ngok.
Ngok ngok.
Who's there?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2016 19:46:31 GMT 7
Before I took on the challenge of learning to read, write and speak Thai (will still be learning even if I live to be 100) the only previous experience I had with learning a language other than English was three years of French language classes at high school. To this day I can still remember a lot of it and can read it to an extent.
Went to AUA in CR for 6 months in 2006, three days a week, two hour classes, one on one with a Thai lady teaching me. Ploy, she was great, very patient thankfully.
Did not take me long to learn little tricks when it came to remembering the names of the many letters (I had English style nic names for nearly every letter)
and for some reason the only way I could remember a new word was to write it in Thai a few times, then when I tried to recall the word in my mind I could see a picture of the written word.
A very well experienced language teacher was telling me once that the written word becomes a "picture" to us. When we are driving down the street looking for Bubbles Bathhouse and we see the sign we don't actually spell out the letters of the word, in our mind those written words are a picture of the place we are looking for.
So when someone asks me what the Thai word for "airport" is in my mind I see this - สนามบิน, then it's just a matter of reading the word.
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...a carefully crafted look he had about him!
