sirchai

I confess that after more than 20 years of computer use, I still don't understand most of the options listed when right clicking.

Can somebody post a list with simple explanations?

I bet I'm not the only one.

Google it.

Gf said i have to send photocopy of passport and sighn it... so she can have the babys name iv chosen and the last name of myself aswell.... is this procedure.... i dont want my identy stolen

Watch identity theft, or read "Private Dancer", first.-

Meanwhile, locals have sought the Fine Arts Department's permission to take the discovered skeletons to a local temple to conduct religious rites for 7 days. Locals consider the skeletons to be those of their ancestors, and have kept a close around-the-clock watch on the remains to prevent theft.

Here's a secret photograph sent to me by the farmer who owns the land, where they unearthed the earth.

One can only use his imagination what these monks are doing to THESE BONES.........

I am a Yemeni man I want to get a visa for tourism is it possible to get it on arrival I will stay 5 days at Bangkok ,because there is no embassy here please help me

Are you an extraterrestrial ,who accidentally traveled to Mogadishu? Google it, please. Here we go:

http://thailand.visahq.com/requirements/Yemen/?js_widget_requirements_link

Best would be to ask the superiors of bigger schools, his English ability might get him a job where he can teach both languages.

Just for the show, if he teaches English in Thailand, he'll need a TOEIC examination ,which is a piece of cake.Good luck for your friend.-

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I’ve experienced a similar phenomenal. I grew up in a bilingual environment, using English and German from early childhood on. I had to use both languages on daily basis, when still in Europe and being pretty good in both languages, as I did translations for the American Armed Forces.

After living in Thailand and also learning quite a few words in Thai, I sometimes know the German word I’m trying to say only in English and in Thai, and need a long time to reinforce it.

Then when on the phone, speaking German to friends and relatives, telling me that now I speak German with American accent, as I’m seldom using German nowadays.

Found my own way to get my German skills back, by using the net. Many Thais who’re teaching English do not have the chance to communicate much in English.

When do Thasi have to speak English in their own country, besides when teaching the language? In the beer bars all around the country a must.

You’re only efficient in a language, if you can “think” in the language, you’re speaking. Or trying to speak.-

I like to listen to mp3s on my phone headphones as I’m driving around. I love listening to BBC 6 Music (shows such as RadMac & Don Letts). I therefore use get I player which rips BBC radio shows in to mp3s.

One more oxymoron on the roads.

I want my name on my child's birth certificate with my current Thai girlfriend but I'm not yet divorced from my previous Thai wife who lives in Australia.

You might consider to see a psychologist......

Legit Window 8.1 will add 3000 baht to your cost. I've found Dell to have excellent support and they don't seem to care where you bought it.

+ 1 can only reckon DELL's service.

Please do yourself a great favor and buy a DVD player with a USB. I've got 16 GB of music, doesn't matter what files and could drive from Ubon to Chiang Mai and back and would never listen to the same song again.

Isn't really expensive and comes with a remote control. I reckon JVC.

It's the 21st century, dude.

Now, about the expectations of someone with an English degree. Now a days, people who graduate from University with an English degree can generally speak English well. I think this thing about people graduating and not being able to speak English well is 1) based on people who graduated before native English speakers were common, or 2) another case of the condescending attitude many Farang have toward Thais. For reason 1, I can only say if Thailand had not graduated people with English degrees before there were native English speakers to help them learn to speak, our job as teachers now would have been much much more difficult. For reason 2, what can I say? Some Farang here are just jerks, they were jerks before they came here and they are still jerks.

Strange people now a days. Would you consider yourself to fit in the last category?

My life is quite happy....but i was trying to find the point of your post. "Trying to understand" why you made the post

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Maybe because a foreigner living here for a long time had realized that it's not always the Thai system that's wrong. Please read my post again.

It's more and more obvious, why quite a lot of people, who were an asset to this forum do not post anymore here.

If you don't understand my point, start to develop your reading skills, please. I'm out of here.

Seems that so many here live such an unhappy life that they're not even trying to understand my post.

Just another example that Thai degrees arent worth a ****

That is a useless remark.

Until recently, most Thai university students didn't have regular access to native English speakers.

Most Thai assistants have English degrees, it is hardly their fault they were not able to have access to English speakers.

ok..but a if someone has a PhD in English, that implies that they are at the HIGHEST educational level someone can get in a certain field....if they cannot string together a few sentences than that in itself proves the fact that the degree isn't worth a dime....or at least the institution's standards on what sort of qualifications someone needs to have to earn such a degree is seriously lacking....

if someone really qualified as a PhD, you would think that their knowledge would match up with the piece of paper given to them after completing all the requirements for said diploma...right?

it would be the same as saying someone with a doctorate degree in mathematics that can't calculate the square root of sixty-four....

I agree that it might not be their (PhD students) fault that they haven't had the access to Native English speakers, so blame it on the educational establishment that formulates the criteria for earning such a degree...degrees aren't given out like party favors, someone should show they are capable and worthy of earning such a thing....

at the end of the day,

if you aquire a professional degree in a field, I would certainly hope that the your level of expertise in the subject would match what you were given on a piece of paper.....so if a degree is given out without any sort of proficiency on behalf of the candidate in said field, then yes, the degree isn't worth much at all is it?

I can see you have not taught English to many if any high school or older students.

Thais with English degrees can actually do more than string sentences together, when writing. But this is a much different thing than being able to speak and understand.

I see it all the time; students as young as 12 years old who can read and write English very well, but have little or no listening and speaking skills.

Many Thai teachers still lingering around Mathayom and universities learned English long before seeing our white faces around the school became a regular thing. They learned to read and write quite well and do a very good job with the resources they have teaching Thai students the same skills.

I understand where you are coming from. When I first came here I worked in a government school and could not believe how few of the English teachers could carry on a conversation. But, over time, I came to understand the reality of the situation instead of criticizing it.

In all fairness, please look at so many foreigners. living and working here for a long time, who can't even order a freaking noodle soup at a restaurant.

And there're people here for more than 15 years, without any command of the country's language they're living in.

Why did those NOT pick up some basic Thai to have a basic conversation????

Once some of them can say Sawasdee khrap/ka, they're telling people that they can speak Thai.

USA vs. Germany !!!! Group G.

26 June 2014, 13h local time Brasil, 18h CEST, 23h Bangkok time

Or:

Ecuador vs. France, Group E, 26 June, 3 am Bangkok Time

I'm actually glad that Americans can't really play the real football. 3 for Germany 1 for America, that they don't look too stupid.

I've seen schools with and without assistants. The students at schools without assistants were quite often weaker than the ones with.

I think for most foreign teachers, since so many know little or no Thai and know little if anything about Thai students, do better with an assistant.

For those of us who have spent many years here, can speak at least enough Thai to control students, it probably is not necessary. I know for sure mine has about the easiest/most boring job in the world. Usually she just has to hang out at the back of the class and occasionally remind a student to be quiet.

An assistant to translate anything a "native English" speaker's saying, doesn't make any sense at all. You're absolutely right about that knowing the Thai language, their cultural environment they grow up in, plus having enough experience, does make the trick.

Having an assistant to keep them quiet would definitely make sense. And she/he would learn a better English just by having daily conversations and of course through teaching....

There're various researches and it’s a fact that simultaneously translations do not work, as the sentence structure, meaning, etc. is completely changing.

Kids have to learn English in English and not having all explained in Thai, which is usually the norm, when taught by Thai English teachers. It helps a lot if you can explain words in Thai.

And if you’re able to \write the Thai word of the new English vocabulary on the board, you’re good to go.

I don't understand the OP's statement about the Filipina with her “poor” English, while he seems to have bigger problems to actually teach them in English without an assistant.

I have the same problem. after your explanation about her poor teaching ability doesn't make you look better at all.

Teaching is the profession that creates all occupations. -

The ministry also informed the council of the problems it had faced over the past ten years such as those concerning teachers’ development, shortage of educational personnel and teachers’ debt.

That's why ALL Thai teachers loved Thaksin so much, as he'd made a new law that none of them in deepest dept had to pay that money back

Those who had "borrowed" four million baht could start over again. Gotta love their white uniforms that makes them look like a bunch of brainless U.S. Army wannabe generals. Pretty much sad that we don't have such "privileges" as teachers in Europe and elsewhere.

All provinces in this country do have their own banks, that look like a palace. But not for foreign teachers.

Thai teacher's development in form of buying a Master's in English will never change.Same woman might have bought a doctorate for 500 K?\

"Shortage of educational personnel?" That doesn't seem to include teachers, or what????

All Thai teachers should wear more and highly decorated Boy Scout uniforms, playing a Scottish blowjob instrument, while marching..

The NCPO asked the ministry to improve the quality of small schools.Do small schools really have a quality? Of what?

How can anybody ask incompetent people to increase the quality of something they don't know anything about it?

Thailand missed the beginning of the 21st century completely.Let's wait another 86 years until they catch up with Mongolia.

The hub of spending the most cash for education, but not knowing who's spending it for what.. -

The best start would be to erradicate corruption...don't let them "buy" their degree anymore. Besides, make it transparant, our daughter who goes to a school with 6250 students is expected to pay 2 x 3900.-Thb this year as addition for the teachers...Let's count together: 3900x2= 7800, x 6250= .750.000.-THB !!!

to be divided amongst the teachers...When will this end?!!!

When will this end, seems to be a good question. Please look at your math again, seems you'd forgotten the most important numbers, before.

It's actually 48 million and 750,000 Thai baht.

Enough for about 1,300 Thai English teachers to "buy" a Master's, or Doctorate degree, or some nice houses, cars, etc....

I've never heard that parents pay such an amount of money, it could only be possible if it's an AP program ( advanced program), where they've got 4-6 hours of English/week.

It''s usually 500-800 baht/year for a government school, where they've usually got one, or two hours taught by a foreign teacher.

Let's say, the size of the school would require 20 native English speaking teachers with experience. They could pay them 100 K/month for 12 months a year and would still have 24 million 750,000 baht left.

EP primary schools usually take around 18- 25 K for one term, so I'd reckon to check on, what you're actually paying for.

Back to work now, don't waste the school's resources.

And when the dream came true.......

Would of thought that any decent employer would pay for the WP to be honest.

Agree with you. But it's 3.100 baht for one year.

RIP.

It will not get you a teaching license because it is NOT a Bachelor degree in education. It's just a normal bachelors degree as 'sirchai ' said.

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Okie, so a teaching license is not necessary to teach here? Because of all the teachers I know, only 1 has a degree in education.

Also, I do have a friend who received her teaching license and she has a science degree, not an education degree. So perhaps this information about needing a degree in education is incorrect.

Nope. It's correct BUT there used to be options. ie have a normal bachelors degree and to pass 4 tests. To have been teaching prior to 2003 (maybe 2005. Can't remember) and be grandfathered in to a teachers license. You can teach with a 2 year licence waiver (maybe what your friend has) the teachers license is a gold color card approx size of a credit card.

Bear in mind this is just schools under the Ministry of Education and does not include University's and private language schools

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Sorry, seems that we posted almost at the same time.Those who'd started teaching in 2004 and before are "grandfathered." I started in May 2005.

It will not get you a teaching license because it is NOT a Bachelor degree in education. It's just a normal bachelors degree as 'sirchai ' said.

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Okie, so a teaching license is not necessary to teach here? Because of all the teachers I know, only 1 has a degree in education.

Also, I do have a friend who received her teaching license and she has a science degree, not an education degree. So perhaps this information about needing a degree in education is incorrect.

You'll need at least a "provisional teacher's license" good for two years. Then you''ll have to have a Thai culture awareness and teaching ethics course for the second provisional, which gives you another two years of teaching.

But you have to have a BA in any field to get started.

But it's highly possible that you might have to have such a Thai culture course (please see TCT website) when you start teaching now.

There seem to be changes going on soon,as there's a massive teacher shortage, but until now, a degree in education is needed to get you a permanent TL.Sorry, for five years.

The million ฿ question is....

Will it get me a 5 year teachers license when I've completed the course?

Answers may include YES or No then the reason why.

Speculation is ok as long as it is informed and not just a bash at the school etc.

If the answer is YES - Great, please show some documentation where this is accepted.

If the answer is NO

The half a million ฿ question is...

What doors will it open for me?

Thanks in advance

It won't give you a teacher's license for five years at all. Let's say you haven't got a degree and you'd go for this one, you'd be okay to teach for four years. ( Two provisional TL both good for two years of teaching, plus a Thai culture and ethic course for the second round)