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I was just almost denied boarding because my test was taken more than 72 hours before.  It was issued less than 72 hours before.  Other countries seem to be requiring the test be taken less than 72 hours before (not issued) , so you may have issues with airline staff.  I was able to show the emails I got from Thailand and I believe the staff member looked it up also.   

I'm preparing to go to Thailand and will be getting my RT-PCR test results in Spanish.  As far as I'm aware there aren't other options here.  The COE approval email says 

• * Documents (1.3) (1.4) (1.5) must be in English or Thai only. Certified translations into English or Thai are accepted in the case that the original copy is in a foreign language.

Is there any official definition of certified translation that I need to be aware of?  

I'm not sure if this is the proper place to post this, feel free to move it if it's not.  

I'm looking for a book that I believe is a collection of articles written for a Thai magazine in Thai by a Japanese author about his view of Thailand and Thai culture.  

One of the articles I remember reading was something like why in every Thai movie/lakorn the man needs to profess his love to the woman without an umbrella.  There was a comic drawn along with the article.  

If anyone knows the name it would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

For me I have True Internet in my name.  The bill they mail each month looks professional.  I use that and an official translation (properly stamped and certified)  for KYC documents.  

Thanks for the suggestions guys.

Looking to meet people in Chiang Mai preferably of the ages around 25-40 years old.

Just moved here from Bangkok. Been living in Thailand for about 2.5 years. Plan to stay in Chiang Mai at least 1 year. Prefer to meet people with a similar kind of history, mainly don't want to meet really short term people.

I'm 30 years old. Male. American. I have been living in Asia for 6 years. About 3 years in Korea as an English teacher, a couple months in Japan. In Korea I started working online, got things to work and that's how I currently make my money.

I'm the kind of person who is always into something and my friends generally are too. Currently I'm studying Thai a lot and learning the guitar. My Thai is at a pretty decent level, guitar not yet.

Other hobbies: music (everything, a lot of indie), eating at a wide variety of places any ethnicity, nytimes, hacker news, stratfor, tv (peep show, seinfeld, arrested development, breaking bad, the wire).

So if anyone is interested in getting dinner or a drink, let me know. I live in front of Chiang Mai University, but can travel anywhere in the city.

I just watched and studied all of the subtitles from December 32 Love Error. I recommend it.

I highly recommend UTL also. Or Rak Thai, which a couple of my UTL teachers moved to.

Avoid schools that cater specifically to people looking for visas. Though most schools will offer you a visa if you study enough.

I have an ED visa from a school in Bangkok and was wondering if it would be possible with all the proper paperwork to extend that in Chiang Mai?

If you can read Thai, you can find lyrics to anything by typing in the song name followed by เนื้อเพลง

Just about every song is on youtube.

Thanks for the replies. I'll be out to pay it Monday.

Well I open my mailbox once every 2 weeks and it turns out my electric bill had been sitting in there for a while. It's 10+ days late now and I can't pay it online. I'm wondering if there is a way around going to pay it by hand, which is what I've read in other threads you have to do. Can I just not pay it and wait for the next bill and then the next bill will have two months and allow me to pay online? Or is my electric going to cut off at any moment? I'm really trying to avoid leaving the house, while not losing electricity.

I live in Bangkok btw.

Can you read Thai? I suggest getting basic reading down first. I initially started by making cards from the sentences of Teach Yourself Thai, the cards were not in Thai script. But at the same time I started studying the Thai script and made cards to learn that too. After I got the basics down I switched all my cards over to complete Thai.

I have hundreds of sentence cards that could help you get started from Teach Yourself Thai, Thai for Beginners and Speak Thai Volume 1. They also contain the audio from the cds of these books. I think that's the best route to start off with, anki sentences from beginner books and maybe up to intermediate books. At some point you'll then want to switch over to real material, it's a bit hard in Thai as the intermediate stage can be rough / lacking good material. There is a ton of beginner material and then everything just stops, I guess because most people don't make it out of that stage.

Anyway you can message me your email if you're interested in me sending you those cards. If you have the books you can delete the Thai script or something until you learn to read. But at least you'll save a decent amount of time with card creation.

If you have any more stuff like this, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I made an anki flashcard deck from the words and sounds of Teach Yourself Thai. There are also some poems you can learn. I found these, though they are a bit incomplete

High class:

ผี ฝาก ถุง ข้าวสาร ให้ ฉัน

ghost leave bag rice raw for me

(the ghost left a bag of uncooked rice for me)

Low Class:

พ่อ ค้า ฟัน ทอง ซื้อ ช้าง ฮอ

ภ ฆ ธ ฌ ฒ ฑ ฅ (left out)

the male salesperson with gold teeth buys a strong elephant.

Mid Class:

ไก่ จิก เด็ก ตาย ฎ ฏ บน ปาก โอ่ง

chicken peck children die on mouth of large ceramic bottle= the chicked pecked the children to death on the mouth of the container.

And my flashcards looked like this. I went in the order of the book so I didn't overwhelm myself. One chapter per day is easy enough.

Side1:

มา

Side2:

mah

to come

mid

Low Class

Long Vowel

Live

Join a thai dating site. Post a real / fake picture depending on how good you look. Talk to girls on skype. If they don't have a mic don't talk to them. When the conversation runs out of steam block her and add another one.

At a beer bar talk to girl, don't drink alcohol, tip them extra if you feel bad about wasting their time. But remember you're buying this girl a drink. Show up a few times to the same place and see if the girls still come back to talk to you. When they do I'm sure you'll feel better about it.

Honestly I undersand your pain. I actually generally ONLY get speaking practice with the girls I'm currently ----ing. Teachers and schools work. You can probably hire someone to speak with for ~200 baht and hour. Might not be a bad idea. I'd probably recommend hiring a couple of those and men > women if you're a man of course.

Second UTL, can't speak for Piammitr never attended there. UTL is great and if you're serious about Thai it will get you to a quite high level.

I will avoid putting down other schools I have attended that were simply no good.

Has anyone used the book/s Thai for Beginners [Paperback] by Benjawan Poomsan Becker?

Any comments and/or recommendations?

Yes, these books are quite good. Lots of people like them.

In my opinion, the best Thai schools don't offer 1-2 days of study per week. They usually offer about 3 hours a day 5 days a week. If you're serious about studying this is the route to go.

Are you trying not to go to school? I learned by myself for the first 6 months. I used Teach Yourself Thai to learn to read and for beginner sentences. Then I also used Thai For Beginners and Speak Thai Vol.1. From all of these books I made sentence flashcards that I put into Anki. I then reviewed from Anki on a daily basis. After that I went to classes at multiple schools, studied comic books, movies, songs, facebook and various internet sites. Still studying and still using Anki. My deck is about 4500 cards.

I'm currently at an intermediate level with Thai and am looking to get out of Bangkok for a month or two. I'd love to go live in an Issan city and be able to study Thai there for a few hours a day. Can anyone recommend or just let me know of schools avaialble in Issan cities. I don't really have a preference, just want to get out of BKK. Also I need to make sure the school is going to have something for my level. I can read, write and carry on conversations in Thai. But I also have a lot of work to do on it.

Thanks!

I'm currently a flood evacuee staying in Pattaya. I have an ED visa that needs a 90 day extension and 90 day report on the 20th. Can I bring all paperwork to immigration here in Pattaya or do I need to do it all in Bangkok?

I still haven't found an all inclusive shop, but here are my results of searching the past day or so.

B2S (i think that's the name) in Central Mall has a small display of maybe 12 books. They are only recent volumes.

2 Shops near the food market on South Pattaya road. Shop 1 has a bunch of romance / girly manga. Shop 2 has a decent selection, but difficult to find volume 1 of many books there also. Both of these shops are on the Tukcom side of South Pattaya road between Tukcom and Walking street. Explore any shops with books/magazines and you'll find them.

Looking to buy Japanese manga in the Thai language. Anyone know where a shop is? The closer to the walking street area the better. Thanks.

Should I start preparing for the flood? Would it be going too far to buy weeks of supplies along with whatever else I might need were I to be trapped in my home? If Bangkok floods how long will it be flooded for?