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That's great, thanks for your help, i will spend some time on this chart too no doubt!!

Can some help me with this problem i'm having.

ช้า - slow. Okay i have looked at a number of charts and a low class consonant with ไม้โท gives it a high tone, but this is not the case as ช้า has a rising tone. It's the same with ซื้อ - to buy

What is the difference between ไม่ได้นั่ง and นั่งไม่ได้?

I understand the difference as follows (but my Thai is by no means perfect):

If somevody invites you to sit down (and to stay a while), but you have no time to do so, you may answer "นั่งไม่ได้" I can't sit down, I have no time...

If you go somewhere by bus and later you tell somebody ไม่ได้นั่ง that means "I didn't sit down (because there were no free seats)

Erwin (อัศวิน)

Nice, thanks, i can be sure of what i'm saying now and i can start right away because i was on a bus today and there were no free seats

What is the difference between ไม่ได้นั่ง and นั่งไม่ได้?

Yeah, i got that last month too. He said 'very sorry our bank will not accept this'. Yeah right, anyway i wasn't going to argue with him, i saw the results on tv of the last time some one had a problem with that particular junta

I would apply for a Thai visa while back home in Europe.

What visa could i get at home, just a 2 month tourist visa? Or more?

How about this one then?

Just arrived on a visa exemption stamp with a new passport. Going back home next September for a wedding. Gonna do 3 months of the visa exemption then 6 months of tourist visas, then a final visa exemption stamp to see me up to the wedding date. Should see me through???.....but

....when i come back after the wedding they'll be looking for my stamps again..mmmm a lot of thai stamps, how will they know i've just been home to Europe if i don't get a visa for home country? Better to get a new passport when i go back as well???

What are your thoughts people??

Anyone heard of someone getting a work permit with just a TEFL or TESOL, maybe if the school has good relations with the MoE?

Hi,

I am going to meet my girlfriend in Malaysia for a holiday before we take the scenic route overland back to Thailand. It will be her 1st time out of Thailand. I am flying to KL from the UK and she is flying there from Chiang Mai. I know that i will be checked in the UK to see if i have an onward or return ticket. Is it the same case for Thai nationals? Will she be required to show this also as we are thinking about taking the land route back and stopping off at various places on the way back.

Also is she required to show evidence of funds and how much will that be?

Any help appreciated

In this day and age, no one follows stamp trails anymore, so there won't be a "where have you been" routine at immigration. My Thai pasport is chock full of entry and exit stamps from Thailand, but not much else as I use my other (Australian) passport to go most places, especially the west. And I travel OFTEN.

I have had it recently when travelling from Thailand to Malaysia (land border). They looked for my Thai stamp at the Malay entry immigration. Usually not, but some people DO check. I also travel OFTEN.

Once arrested and taken to an Immigration Detention Centre, is it possibly to:

1) Pay some sort of bail money to get out of the IDC while awaiting the court case?

2) Bribe your way out of the IDC?

Cheers.

I would think that 1 and 2 are quite similar. In IDC, you are not awaiting a court case you are waiting to be deported. So if you are paying any money to get out of there it would be tea money, and i would imagine it would have to be pretty hefty in size. It ain't no amphur nick, its immigration

I met this Scottish waitress last week. She spunked all her money on booze and partying. She had a nice phone on contract, but didn't understand the contract so she always paid over 200 pounds a month. I said to her you live in Scotland but have no western logic, why is that? She hit me in the face with her bottle of Buckfast (tonic wine)

The only reason there is a problem is the mis-appropriation of funding by too many countries greedy politicians. Keep reproducing and educate them all yourself - Revolution!!

Do you think you'd make more than the reported average of 10000 a month?

Assuming you knew the roads, would you have a better strategy than the local drivers here? Half the time I get refused a 100b taxi fare I am amazed they won't take it and would rather look for another fare. I guess if they got 20 35b fares all in the same area (up and down Sukhumvit for example) they would be better off but still, what are the chances of that?

I've thought in the past 9-5 from the Si Lom MRT to immigration and back could be fairly lucrative if that was the only fare you took.

If i was a Bangkok taxi driver, i would grow a rather deep moustache and purchase a pair of 99B silver mirrored ray ban copies. Being a taxi driver in Bangkok is not about the money its about the style. All the other taxi drivers would be jealous of the depth i could manage on my brown moustache.

Forgive my ignorance, but when reading articles on Thailand, I often see the word Khmer. I say see the word, because I haven't a clue how the word is pronounced. Can anyone describe how to verbalise Khmer please?

Kh-mer or kʰmaːe for phonetics

Each and every syllable in Thai has a tone. Make sure you pay attention to this in every single word you pronounce, and don't just rush through the word's letters thinking that sounding out the letters will give you the correct pronunciation. It won't - it will at best be an approximation.

If you do not realize this from the start, you will be forced to at some point in the future, and at that stage you will have to relearn lots of words you thought you "knew".

Very, very, very good point. Had i known that b4 i learned the whole alphabet i wouldn't be thinking about relearning the whole alphabet now

If your going soon, there is a holiday (school i think) coming up shortly. Flight prices - going up

I'm back in the UK at the moment and can't believe why people are rushing about so much trying to beat you round the next corner and that's people walking. Then i find myself joining in, stopping to check myself then looking around for the nearest flight centre.

Get me back to unorganised bliss

Only an idea, this is what i did, after learning the basics of speaking.

Learn to write the letters of the alphabet, consonants and vowels seperately. Then get your wife to tell you what each one is, i wrote the sound down in my own personal phonetics. Takes time, but if you've got it, it worked for me. For the tones i would seek professional help, but that's enough to keep you going for a bit.

There are also baby and prathom writing books you can buy cheaply in a local bookstore, just ask your wife to take you.This will help you to learn the alphabet.

And you can practise everywhere, there are signs all over Thailand. Take the bus everywhere.

I just think that they are just getting on with their life, not thinking too much about what's going on around them cos there is so much going on, and its so hot and you just get so tired. I'm jealous actually, they have an amazing ability to just switch off. They have the ability to rest in a hectic train station for example - yeah shit example. but something like that

Okay, i'd imagine Panthip Plaza in Bangkok would be the best place to go. I'm looking for a cheap new laptop, any ideas how much i'd pay? I want 1GB of RAM.

Any other places would help too. Can buy anywhere in Thailand.

Cheers

Recently visited one of these parks and entered for the not yet adjusted thai adult price of 20 baht