NorthernRyland

It's all so tiresome with the fake propaganda media.  Every time it floods or gets a little warm it's global climate catastrophe and now every year when the flu goes around it's COVID fear mongering. They've been doing the climate scam for 30 years with no signs up letting up so I expect the same for COVID now. 

1 hour ago, Nacho Libre said:

"Suppose that..." in English

Cool I didn't know you could ask AI questions like that. That's what I was looking for and correct answer. I couldn't find the words myself. 

1 minute ago, Nacho Libre said:

It's often/always used as a start of a sentence.

it's like "if it was like this..." 

For example:

"Tha samut wah" I go to the store first then come back to get you later would that be ok?

like "consider this option" then you give the option or explain the possible scenario.

5 hours ago, pimmmm said:

Nowadays, there are a lot of subtitles on YouTube too, so you can look up words you don't know easily. 

CC on YouTube works with Thai too.

I found some channels on YouTube with Thai women who moved on abroad and share stories. It's like the Thailand expat circles but inverted 180 degrees. 🙂 This woman speaks very clearly and is entertaining. If you don't understand turn on CC or ask a Thai person. It's mostly all basic vocab anyone should know.

Another one I like is this guy because it's DIY building content and educational in a very practical way. If you needed to do building work you could learn all the words you needed here.

10 hours ago, Equatorial said:

 

@Cameroni, in your experience, what is the most productive way to spend those 45 minutes a day? How do you pick the 30 new words? 

 

I am asking because I feel the same way as the OP. I am past the beginner stage, have gone through many of the Becker type of books, and I not sure what is the best way to move forward.   

Search for any Thai text to read and when you hit the first word you don't know then learn it. That's a really good filter. Scan through Thai peoples facebook is good for common words but it's also quite hard because of all the  slang and expressions they use, and honestly you probably won't be speaking that naturally. News sites are another good source if you keep away from politics which have government agency names etc... which you don't really need.

If you can't read then you should do that first before anything else. Then you can try some social media content like YouTube and when you hear a word you don't understand ask a Thai person what it means or if you can manage to spell it then you can search yourself. I'm not nearly good enough to spell out Thai words I hear so I would ask my wife.

1 hour ago, pimmmm said:

For you, try advanced beginner or early intermediate material like the comprehensible thai channel, pickup Thai podcast, self-study- thai.com, maybe คำนี้ดี podcast, it teaches English to Thai people, so it is easier to understand.

This is the correct answer. You feel stuck? Then go try to watch something Thai on YouTube. Do you not understand it? Great, now you have something to work on. 

1 minute ago, John Drake said:

Who would you rather have come to the US, Mexicans or endless H1B Indians?

Neither but I'd choose Mexicans still. Their numbers are drying up so they're now targeting Indias 1.4B people. It's a horrific bio weapon being unleashed upon Americans.

23 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

1.  Just having fun because this is a clown thread

2.  In mid-2023, there were an estimated 5.5 million unauthorized Mexican immigrants in the United States. This represents a decline from a peak of 7.8 million in 2007, but recent years have seen a slight increase. While Mexicans still constitute the largest single group of unauthorized immigrants

3.  impossible to generalize.  mexican flags.  maybe they are from Honduras and funded by Soros.  Impossible to know anything.   

That has nothing to do with what I posted. Also when counting Mexican you need to include their anchor babies over decades now. It's 10's of millions of people.

27 minutes ago, Mo Sawadee said:

Illegals are taking 100’s of Billions of tax payer dollars from citizens beyond what they contribute . It cost over $ 200,000 for K-12 public education in the US, over 430,000 in NJ. So tell us how a low skilled, mostly non English speaking person will realistically ever pay that back for 2-4 children? To house a single prisoner in California it costs 133,000 annually 10’s of thousands in just California alone. Besides, housing, food subsidies along with health care over 1,200,000,000 is sent to just Mexico every week in remittances that money creates zero jobs, pays zero sales taxes (about a 105,000,000 loss weekly). Healthcare is 100’s of billions… Then theirs the obvious cost in the legal system for crime, rape, murder, child molestation or worse… educate yourself. 

See the Mexican president up in arms about the remittances tax? The Mexican elite know full well their exporting their underclass to America and extracting money out of the country while moving their problems to become Americans.

15 minutes ago, Quentin Zen said:

I'm not sure this is ironic.

 

One group has money, gets the proper visa, spends money legally.

 

The other is undocumented, sneaks in, works off the books, and who knows what.

 

ICE.   

The people coming to the US illegally are the original native population of Mexico while the people protesting are likely the Spanish. The Americans are most likely going in to the white parts of Mexican cities and disrupting them. Makes the whole calculation more complicated because honestly the mostly Spanish Mexicans are not the ones causing upsets in the US.

5 minutes ago, angryguy said:

Strikes me the same as pushing climate change on us too. USA is the least racist country on earth but the media says its the most

According to this poll our good Indian friends are the most racist. Also not surprising Thailand is more racist than the US.

DTV. Get 500k baht in your bank, sign up for a cooking class and get 5 years. I'd move on this quick before they cancel this visa category.

4 hours ago, ChipButty said:

This story is just plain nonsense, to start with where are you getting a massage for that price? I've lived here for 25 years, I've never seen. 

Just last year my local massage place raised prices from 200 to 250 per hour. I forget now the price but it was certainly lower than 200 baht 20 years ago, of course it was.

Because Jew in Israel trumps Jew in Ukraine (pun intended).

5 hours ago, madone said:

 

I saw nothing of the sort.

 

Sadly, it was clear the bus could not stop even if the driver had seen her. If they had even tried, the bus following would have hit them.

Look there how her head and hair drops down. It's hard to tell but she appears to have looked around the stopped car and did a little bow. She's probably used to cars stopping for her in traffic like this. Dunno just a guess.

Deep fried chicken, deep fried hotdogs, deep fried Rotti's, deep fried bananas. Thai food is cooked with oil and oily fried eggs on top. Oils in all the bread snacks at 7-11. There's palm oil in so many foods and cheap oily food is so easier to find here.

3 hours ago, MalcolmB said:

Love these threads about why Thais are so fat by farangs who are fatter and come from countries with higher obesity rates than Thailand.

Nothing strange about that, we've been there and seen the problem a long time ago.

23 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Yet again, we witness another pedestrian failing to look, seemingly operating under the assumption that it’s safe to cross with disregard for their own wellbeing....

Before she got hit you can just barely make out she bowed her head a little suggesting she thought the bus saw her and would stop.

15 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

You gotta love Thailand.

My wife sent me this on facebook. How did a farang public pisser not make this forum? Maybe he saw the naked dildo rider and got the wrong idea about Thai culture.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1072661860878229

1 hour ago, bg53 said:

 

Compelled by what?

Imagine the thrill of driving around naked in front of uni girls with dildos dangling off the side of your bike.