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fvw53

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  1. I am now more than 70 years old but 40 years ago I spoke already fluently 5 languages when I had to go and live in China for my work.

    I decided to learn Chinese with a private teacher ...and despite my skills I found it very stressful to have "face to face" lessons.

    On the other side my 3 children picked up spontaneously all the languages in the 5 countries where we stayed...because they were less than 12 years and played with local children on the street or at school.

    If your kid is 11 then it is time you find a way to let him play with English speaking children...this will be better than daily "face to face" teaching by yourself

     

  2. 9 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

    The UK embassy will not allow him to do that.

    One of the reason the UK embassy cannot legalise the document could be :

    1/ they do not have a copy of the signature on that document ...because they only legalise signatures and not the content of the document itself

    2/ it could the UK Embassy has no means to check if the document is authentic and not a fraud. Normally in this case OP could ask the Embassy that if he certifies (with his signature) the authenticity of the document ..they may as a next step legalise his signature.

  3. 36 minutes ago, Dustdevil said:

    First class is not worth the extra money. Business is just as good. With my frequent flier miles I've crossed the Pacific for years in Business...always with a nice little cocoon and comfortable lie-flat seat with blanket. I never bother with airlines' censored TV and movies. (Nowadays, US domestic flights are eliminating seat-back screens and replacing them with brackets to hold your personal devices.) I always popped some Xanax so I could sleep most of the way across the Pacific and told them not to wake me for food except for the final meal. That's 15 hours across, you know, not like the 7 or 8 hours to and from Europe. All that sleep and the Xanax totally killed off the jet lag. Only way to travel.

    I do not agree you promote Xanax : it is a benzodiazepine with serious side effects such as...addiction

  4. Chinese and Thai Foreign Policy is based on a very old rule :
    When the Pope in Rome was still the head of the Papal States (Central Italy) there was a constant competition with the King of France for control of Northern Italy and the kingdom of Naples.

    Many fights and even wars have erupted during several centuries...
    During the time of French King Louis XIII the Prime Minister of France was also a Cardinal in the Catholic Church : Duke Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu known as "Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu".

    At one occasion... and to stab the Pope in the back.... Richelieu made an alliance with the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.... and a French cabinet member asked him " how can you - as a cardinal - make this alliance with the Muslims against the Pope?"
    Richelieu replied : "France has no permanent friends, no permanent enemies...only permanent interests"

  5. Military action now is a frightening idea but...what is then the alternative : to wait until Kim Jung Un has mastered completely the launch of nuclear weapons?
     
    There is a precedent with Hitler when he broke in 1936 the Versailles Treaty and suddenly moved his army into the demilitarized Rhineland. All experts agree that if the Allied powers would have retaliated immediately that the Nazi regime would have been completely defeated....but they choose to wait while Hitler was building up a powerful army ...and they continued to talk..and talk...and then Hitler always went further and annexed Sudetenland...and then again talks ...and talks...and UK Prime Minister Chamberlain went so far as to accept the annexation and he signed a "peace deal" with Hitler while the latter was already preparing to attack Poland.
  6. On 17-9-2017 at 9:19 AM, Artisi said:

    Why, biological daughter is daughter- married or not married.

     

    A Thai child can be adopted by him but if he was not married to the mother before birth then the child will not automatically obtain UK nationality : in many European laws about nationality of 1980ies the child could opt for nationality of father from the age of 16...I do not know if this has changed since the influx of the boat people the last 30 years.

  7. 6 hours ago, tomwct said:

    The only people that want to keep ObamaCare is the 9-10 million that get it free. Most are joblesss or don't want to work and free is free. This is a failed system and getting worse everyday. Even the ones that get it free can't use it because of $12,000 to 18,000 deductibles. Socialism won't work in America. 80% of Americans want to pick and choose their insurance.

     

    Why does it work in all other developed nations ?

  8. 20 hours ago, ldiablo72 said:

    That's BS. Pathumthani immigration only requires a home visit with witnessess on the very first extension based upon marriage.

     

     

     

     

    I am reporting what I experienced for 3 years in a row ...my goodness what should it be BS...do you live in Pathum Thani and do you apply for extension based on marriage?

    I am not alone - I live in an apartment building - two other people in our building are facing the same situation : the only problem is to find witnesses registered here because my wife is always home while the rest the of building is out working.

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