anon467367354

Yes, I agree the ED visa is useless. Why would anybody living in Thailand actually want to learn Thai?

Sheesh.

so when they do retire here they speak the language.
 

Spend THB 1,000,000 a year? That's below the poverty line in most western nations.

but we're talking Thailand and not other countries remember?
 

The op claims to have money but he mentions he has 60000 thb per month. He isn't swimming in it by any means. He couldn't survive on that on many European countries which is why he chose Thailand because it's relatively cheap to live in.

The immigration rules have changeable and tightened up and he is like a spoilt little child having a temper tantrum.






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not sure what other countries have to do with it. If one has enough money to comfortably live here and not milk the system, what's the issue?

We're talking about Thailand and not other countries.
 

If you want to learn a new language properly the alphabet is the first thing you ought to learn.

actually when people learn a language they learn to speak it first and then reading and writing follows.

The Thai on the other hand when learning English start with the Alphabet, reading and writing and really have

no communicative skills. I am at the point where I speak Thai almost fluently and rather than use the traditional

English to Thai books I'm using with my teacher Thai to English books and the results are way better in my opinion, but

then again, I have learned to read Thai.

In any language, those that read are far more expressive with the spoken language and when reading now I recognize

words in print that I've only heard when spoken so it's all coming together very quickly for me now. I now know what many

of the letters sound like and how things are expressed because I'm experiencing it.

Just my 2 baht.
 

I hear and I forget.

I see and I remember.

I do and I understand.

I'm amazed at how many Thai people ask with an incredulous look, "you can cook kai jeouw?"

my understanding of the work permit is the permit is where you work and who you work for.

If you work for a language school teaching corporate and teach at 5 different companies, mostly in the evenings twice

a week you're going to need 5 work permits in order to do that.

The work permit has to involve  making a certain amount of money and those that teach corporate do know that it's

really a part time job, it doesn't add up to the money or hours one would rack up teaching full time at a public or private school.

It's not that maybe the language schools will suffer, they will!

I can see it now where a family wants to go to the beach, they have their passports, plane tickets etc locked in the hotel safe for "safe keeping" and

they all get arrested for not having their passports on their person. I would hate to bring my passport to the beach, probably the easiest place to have it stolen.

I wonder if this would send travel warnings about going to Thailand when people are thrown in jail for something like this and end up beaten to death by the scum inmates.

It has happened in the past.

which means the schools are going to have to hire more teachers or pay the teachers a lot more to be teaching the same class every day

rather than teaching it twice a week. Where are these schools going to put all these students on a daily basis?

Never yet seen a school large enough to house all the actual registered students.

If they want true democracy, read Mohamar Qaddafi's "The Green Book"

that truly spells out what a democracy really is. A great read.

This is a good thing.

Get a work permit and work visa. Pay your bloody taxes. Then you'll have no problem.

This visa run thing has gone on long enough. One of the good things that will come out of this is we will have less 'teachers' now. We really don't need all this riff raff 'teachers' whose only qualification is speaking the language and being white. High time this country hired real English teachers.

If they want real teachers they will have to pay real salaries.

If they want real teachers, why don't they make the "wannabe teachers" take a test and actually see if they can teach?

Having a degree means nothing.

be interesting to see how this would meet the work permit requirements. A work permit for one job does not carry over to another and

there are requirements for how much work is being done and getting paid.

Maybe just hire one of those millions of Thais that speak perfect English.

They were previously arrested for poisoning a tiger, then what happened?

That's a very good question.

I had no idea you could shoot down a plane that was flying at 33,000 feet and if you did,

if it tumbled out of the sky, wouldn't it totally break apart?

if it tried to land, meaning the plane was crippled, was there no smoke?

probably hit from above in my opinion, something that just totally shut it down.

I taught in a thai gov't school, they hired a woman from the US with a degree in chemisty, she would sit there in a dazed look and say "I have no idea what I'm doing, I don't have a clue as to what to do with these kids" Having a degree means nothing when it comes to teaching ESL and until Thailand realizes this, it's going to hurt.

As to the comment that there are millions of Thais that speak perfect English that is ridiculous, if that were the case why is Thailand at the bottom of the Asean list of proficiency in English?

In regards as to how the current work permit is implemented, you have to have a work permit for every place you teach. A work permit for a Thai gov't school does not allow you to teach corporate English in the evening. I've taught at language schools, I've taught most of the different branches of the Thai gov't, teaching 8 different companies or branches of the gov't per month is not going to get me 8 different work permits. I can see the language schools going down for this reason. They can't under the current laws legally operate because of the work permit situation.

The solution: issue "green cards" where if someone wants to hire you they can and you are now legally employed and a tax payer. Rather simple really but since it's never been done it probably won't be. Change has to come in this area if Thailand wants to compete in the world market IMHO.

if working illegally and taxes were the issue, why not make it easier to legally work and pay taxes?

People come from different countries to work here. I went to immigration a few weeks ago and they had

people from Myranmar working there. I'm a Caucasian, I could never get that job if I wanted to.

this will be good for Bangkok, clean it up!

I hate nothing more than vendors on both sides of the walkway with tables with fish

and sticks of meat hanging over the edges making it difficult to walk without getting

that crap on your clothes.

Maybe they should do something about the second hand smoke from all those people

cooking meat, you just can't avoid it and I don't care to smell like that just from walking by.

It's like having a brand new tablet.

 

does the new tablet, 8.4 play flash videos? that's the only thing I don't like about my 7.7

 

 

Install this app: http://schoener-fernsehen.com/files/sf.apk

 

It will take care of proper installation of Adobe Flash Player. In addition, you can watch a lot of international TV programs for free. On the other hand, VLC will play FLV, too.

 

awesome, trying it now!

does the new tablet, 8.4 play flash videos? that's the only thing I don't like about my 7.7

Everyday the skies are covered from aerosol spraying, I have no doubts why it's not raining and the crops are not growing.

Ever notice that even though there are no clouds, it's still hazy and everything is very dim.

does this crackdown pertain to all foreigners or just westerners? (serious question)

don't do it, you're not a teacher at heart and won't last a week.

You have a retirement visa, you are not allowed to work.

You're taking great risks for absolutely nothing.

If you don't do it for yourself, do it for the kids and tell the school to hire a real teacher.

get a gecko, that'll do it.

works on boats.