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Family Rush to Rescue British Man With Mystery Illness in Thailand
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
The ethics at play here are relevant. He doesn't have I surance and this may be affecting his treatment. The lack of I surnce is of concern but so is the lack of diagnosis. -
Pai's Deportation of International Musician Sparks Outcry
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Chiang Mai News
you are failing to understand your own anti-imigrant bigotry. You are making false categories to hide it. -
Pai's Deportation of International Musician Sparks Outcry
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Chiang Mai News
you're making up false excuses for immigration depending on country and you personal bigotry. -
Pai's Deportation of International Musician Sparks Outcry
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Chiang Mai News
QED - bigotry in action - they are working illegally -
Pai's Deportation of International Musician Sparks Outcry
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Chiang Mai News
...and there you go! -
Pai's Deportation of International Musician Sparks Outcry
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Chiang Mai News
People complaining about how this guy was detained are the first to do this to immigrants in their home country. -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
A few years back I was offered a job with EF – I turned it down because I felt they weren’t so much as an education company as a cult. EF spends a lot of time publicising its English Proficiency Index (EPI), which ranks countries based on English language ability. However, experts and analysts question the validity of EF’s rankings, as they are based solely on test results from self-selected participants rather than comprehensive national assessments. As I said before critics argue that EF’s rankings may be influenced by marketing strategies rather than objective linguistic data. Although EF Education First is a leader in global language education, but there are controversies hanging like a cloud over this company which suggest there is a need for greater oversight and transparency. There are serious issues related to teacher hiring, student safety, and host family selection indicate systemic challenges that the company must address to maintain trust and credibility in the educational sector. Until EF implements stricter safeguards and more transparent policies, scepticism about its operations and rankings is likely to persist. Also the media need to be careful about uncritically publishing their rankings as their compilation seems pretty dubious -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
As of 2017, EF had approximately 52,000 employees in 116 countries -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
You really don't gettit? Myanmar is the name used by the military Junta - both names go back in history - but I'm not going to cow-tow to the Junta - especially as they are losing the civil war at present. So perhaps you need to get up ro=to speed on the history and politics of BURMA! BTW - got anything to say about English Language in Burma or are you just engrossed trying not to look daft?? -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Burma uses English a lot. If you holiday in spouthern Thailand, you'll find a lot of the hotel staff who speak English well are Burmese. -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
oth are grammatically correct, but they have slightly different meanings depending on context: "Hasn't trained to teach" – This suggests that the person has not undergone training to become a teacher up to the present moment. It emphasizes an ongoing state of not having trained. Example: She wants to become a teacher, but she hasn't trained to teach yet. "Wasn't trained to teach" – This implies that in the past, the person did not receive training to teach. It focuses on a completed past event. Example: He was hired as a tutor, but he wasn't trained to teach formally. QED -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
th it evidence based! -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
Repeating yourself louder doesn’t make you right. You keep insisting ‘we understand’ while proving, over and over, that you don’t. Saying ‘attitudes won’t change’ is just defeatist nonsense. And shows how what little grasp you have of the topic. Plenty of countries have improved road safety through systemic changes—better laws, enforcement, and education. You don’t fix a broken system by blaming individuals while ignoring what shaped their behaviour. You probably don’t know of the conference coming up on the 26/7th Feb - "Roads & Traffic Expo Thailand" is a road safety conference held in Thailand in February, taking place on February 26-27, 2025 at BITEC, Bangkok. Will you be there? And your bizarre rant about women? That just exposes your mindset—you think problems are ‘ingrained’ rather than fixable. That’s the lazy excuse of someone who’d rather complain than think critically. And now you have returned to using the word “culture” in a way racists do to try and deflect from the fact they are basically racist ideas. As I said before there is stupid, stupider and racist – and so long as you think along those lines you will NEVER understand how to deal with road safety in Thailand. It seems the irony of including the definition of assumption is lost on you? everything you've posted on this thread - EVERYTHING - is assumption or suposition - you have not backed it with any evidence or factual support anywhere -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
supposition and assumption - you key 'skills" and ad hom! -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
You think you understand. I notice now you are just gainsaying but infact you have moved your goalposts - so slowly you are learning. -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Except not with English but with medical training - think about that next time you are in a hospital -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
We all do! I think he posts on this thread! -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
but you are speaking like a teacher who has never trained to teach... -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I'm dyslexic too, but it didn't prevent me from learning critical thinking. Assumptions are the mark of a fool, -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
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Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
I lived and WORKEd in Thailand for 20 years and I think Harrisfan is right. -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
Probably the worst reference for anything about Thailand! -
Thailand Ranked 106th in English Proficiency Out of 116 Countries
kwilco replied to webfact's topic in Thailand News
but apparently a load of foreign bigots? -
Road Safety in Thailand – a summary of Perceptions and Reality
kwilco replied to kwilco's topic in Thailand Motor Discussion
Yes - that's why it's called [perceptions versus reality - I've said on several occasions that the w=authorities and the general public like yourself don't understand the basics of road safety and this is a reason why no significant change has occurred.