Just read your Sunday 11/5 line about life in Thailand. Entertaining that’s for certain, but additionally extremely revealing. Why – You may ask? I would ike to quote: 1. The stupid, arrogant, racist instructor wonders exactly exactly exactly how it really is to be always a farang and not Thai. 2. The bitch regarding the picture providing you the little finger. 3. Your facts about “Square-Head” who would like the players to bow down. Stick, how could you being an obvious smart and smart child nevertheless be surviving in this smiling (not really much any longer yourself) hypocritical, Orwellian 
nightmare of a country as you mention? You might be from a advanced level tradition, humanistic, successful, reasonable, decent society with the characteristics that Thailand doesn’t have. Have you thought about it may really be one step down in development for your needs, therefore to state, to keep right here for a long time at a stretch, really involved in this detergent opera that Thailand IMO is? You talk the language fluently now i realize why have you been then nevertheless baffled about the things that are crazy? Possibly in the event that you had a spiritual / philosophical background some things would fall under destination. Like, why it really is completely normal to lie, cheat, steal, and laugh in the exact same time! I think oahu is the Buddhist notion of the impermanence of everything material – and a lot of important: there isn’t any Jesus, no “eye within the sky” to help keep you on the right track, and so no feeling of conscience, morality, shame, good or bad, once we have actually into the Christian countries. I do not suggest to express that all things are perfect into the world that is christian heck, we’ve way too much feeling of shame and sin. This is exactly why we want it right right right here into the Kindergarten, where no body is accountable, while the only thing essential is area and face. For my own well-being we choose never to discover Thai. I allow the misses handle all of that stuff while We pretend to function as stupid farang! I am resigned and I also’m NOT interested in participating in a lot of Thainess, many thanks! Essentially i suppose it is the climate, the living that is cheap together with madam needless to say. The remainder they could keep, the arrogant, racist, immoral Thais.
What exactly is the point of learning Thai?
After reading your regular as to how you learnt Thai, one comes with to wonder in the event that work, energy and expended mind matter in pursuing a language that will be dead beyond the boundaries of Thailand is actually worth every penny. In several respects it is because useful as learning Latin is actually for the people of us away from medical and appropriate occupations and unless Thailand will likely be your property for the following 20 or more years and you may really show some degree of return and concrete advantage from this then chances are you do have to ask in the event that value versus input ratio stacks up. I learnt a great deal of passive Thai inside my stint in LOS and it is amazing that which you grab sitting in board conferences as well as in taxis the good news is i will be straight right back involved in real life once again truly the only time Thai becomes of good use is when A) i will be viewing Liverpool beat the crap away from guy City and I like to shout Thai obscenities at square face to be an obnoxious Thai with complete advantages in my own nation while we continue to have none in their, and B) whenever I have always been wanting to charm the jeans off a number of the Thai pupils at college prior to failing them for sheer laziness. As you care able to see these two do not actually warrant the necessity for us to discover Thai to a higher standard when I simply use the things I understand to just take the piss alternatively. Even if the missus catches up with several of her Thai buddies when you look at the Thai community right right here in Blighty not one of them actually talk Thai, either preferring alternatively to converse in Tinglish or Isaan begging the relevant question of ‘what’s the idea in mastering Thai anyhow! ‘
The thrills for the Thai ajarn!
Loved your description the other day on learning Thai which reminded me personally of my personal experience a couple of years straight back. Signed up for a powerful thai language program at one of several top centers of learning in London. First instructor ended up being great – encouraged you to definitely speak right away, high in enjoyable making quick progress. Ajarn 2 literally will never allow you to talk and place her hand to her lips once you attempted to utter an audio. All rote learning and reams of photocopied sheets. One she said to all of us, “Tell me personally in English exactly what things that you do not like about Thailand. Time” Politely we declined, saying we never criticised Thais or perhaps the nation. She insisted. Saying she failed to mind whatever we stated i really could state any such thing i desired. Finally reticently we said, “Well some Thais is found by me a bit racist”. An audio originated in her comparable to a squealing pig being castrated, a bellow emanated from her nose just like a bull on temperature and she stomped her legs such as a horse. She quickly turned her straight back for the next three lessons on me and did not speak to me. Another course was found by me!
