scottyd

Tell him "Bye bye", being drunk is no excuse anyways.

I don't know how she will react, but it's best if you say nothing. The same reason why I never tell my girlfriend about my ex's and I never ask about hers, because we all know whatever we hear we won't like it, it's common sense.

Mate, if it's something you want to do, go and do it. Everything is dangerous, but we don't all lock ourselves up in our houses do we? (that isn't safe either because 100% of domestic accidents happen in the home 555555555)

Enjoy your bike tour mate hope you have an excellent time!

I don't know about you mate, but in all honesty I couldn't give a flying one if my lass has got stretch marks. If it really does make that much of a difference to you, I think you need to have a quiet word.

I'm a male, and I don't really know about preventing stretch marks, but don't worry about them too much, we still love you. We only care about how you and the baby are.

I still think people should do whats best for them, but don't hurt other people in the process, if you want to go out with other men/women, finish your current relationship first, and then do what you have to, if not your just a <deleted>. (I apologise)

If my national anthem has more words in it than "God save the Queen", then no I don't know it. I just stick to what I know and repeat it.

Everybody is different, and people want different things, but chances are men want the same things as women. The problem comes to finding the ones that want the same things as you.

I agree, get out now while you can, don't even consider taking him back, it's his loss and he will realise this in time. Just make sure you and the kids are alright, thats all that matters anyways.

Just do what's best for you. If I were in your shoes I would claim the extra income support, it does not pay to be honest. Some people may disagree, but I say do what benefits you.

I'd be a brutal, racist, wife beating loud mouth womanizing westerner if they were paying me.

It's only a TV show.

If you are in Scotland now I could send you my copy of Pimsleurs Thai, just pm me your address and I will get it sent off asap.

You could do each lesson in less than 2 hours a day easy, but I set aside 2 hours for me just so I could learn quickly, also I did a lesson a day so I did the whole course in 30-35 days (I think I missed a few days when I was busy ha).

When I was learning it for the first time I did each lesson only once, but properly, I still occasionally listen to lessons again to practice and top-up my speaking as I can have conversations with my computer. how f**king sad is that haha.

I would still class my level of Thai as Basic-Intermediate. Pimsleurs teaches you enough to comunicate and be understood. The key for me is that it teaches you key verbs and how to construct sentences which is the most important for me, because then I can look up words I do not know and construct sentences with them because of the fundamentals it teaches you.

Like the person above said learning new words is good, after I did my lessons I could not find any more advanced ones so I just started learning new words day by day building on my knowledge.

Thai-language.com is an excellent website as it is a dictionary and often has an audio button to click so you can hear how the word is pronounced.

A good dictionary is a must for quick reference, I have the Collins "Thai Phrasebook". It is not an extensive dictionary (as its a phrasebook) but it has most of the words you will ever need in an Eng-Thai dictionary in the back, it also has a Thai-Eng dictionary straight after so if you and a Thai are talking and something crops up, Bam easy reference haha. Since it is a phrasebook it will also assist in your learning because you will be able to take what you have learned from your audio lessons and see how things are spelt. It also has a bonus of being pocket size (not english dictionary pocket size where you need a backpack to carry the behemoth haha) it will fit into most trouser pockets/back pockets. It set me back £4.50 from Waterstones.

Hi, I just registered this is my first post.

I learned to speak thai by using Pimsleurs Thai audio books, they are great for learning to speak, however you will not be able to read or write thai as it is all in mp3 audio. There are 30 lessons all of which are around 30 mins long. What I did is, in each lesson I would take notes and write down the things I heard the way I thought it sounded so I could look back on it for reference (made my own course book haha) and this helped me greatly. I would usually spend around 2 hours a day on each lesson as I would stop and replay some parts of the lesson to practice it or give me time to think and write it down, and the mandatory "talk to myself" bit after the lesson to test what I learned, but maybe that's just me ha.

Linguaphone is a good course too, but I found Pimsleurs to be better.

Rosetta Stone is good but I havent used it much because I couldn't get it to give me Romanised thai lessons as at the time I could not read thai.

Now I am using "Teach Yourself Thai". It is a handbook and audio cd to help you learn thai, I first rented this from the library because it was the only package that helped me learn to write and read thai, it was so good at this i bought myself a copy (£30 rrp but I got it for £20 off the net) BARGAIN! It also looks very good at helping you speak thai too, but I cannot give my opinion because I have only used it to help me read/write.

Are you located in the UK mate?, if so I may be able to help you more.

Scott.