edutain1

Hi,

I lived in Japan for over ten years and can speak it ok.

But Thai, I can not hear the tones.

For example "hobby" is in Thai "Ngan Adilay", I say it like "gung adilay" but nobody understands.

When they say it, I always think "that is what I said!". I can't hear the difference, just as Japanese can not hear any difference between right and light, yet we can.

I have a young Thai wife that speaks English, and now have an iPhone app that you speak into it in English, and it translates to

Thai (written and spoken) and they can understand it fine. Only drawback is each sentence must be less than 100 characters when written.

In Japan I was younger and needed Japanese, here I simply don't need it, so lack motivation.

I am sure if I went to school and studied two hours a day I could learn, but who has time when retired on a Paradise Island!? ; o )

Good luck to us all!

Cheers,

IE

Hi All,

I have had two pals go down with Dengue, one in front of me in Bali (he went white and slid under the table and we called an ambulance) and my pal in Phuket and it took him down for 13 days.

I now have the only real way to go, recommednded by the Singapore Govt etc

Biogents mosquito traps use a patented combination of visual signals, artificial air and a patented 3-component imitator called Biogents Sweetscent human scent that mimics the skin

This combination of features has been developed especially for the Tiger mosquito (or Dengue fever mosquito) at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Its effectiveness has been tested and approved by scientific and professional organizations of mosquito control in different parts of the world.

If you do a search "Biogents Phuket" you will find them.

I have one at the front patio of our unit and each few days we empty out hundreds of

dead mosquitoes. One time my pal counted, we had 96 total, 5 were Dengue ones (he can tell somehow) and two Tiger ones (I had never herad of), if I had a baby in mosquito season, I would probably put one of these in the babies room or outside the room door.

From memory they are about 6,000bht.

Good luck.

IE