KunMatt

Called them and they will do the translation. Thank you for the help. 👍

Thanks. Is this an official notarised translation service, or a Thai class?

I need my UK passport to be officially translated into Thai for some government paperwork. Does anyone know any companies in Ubon which could do this please? TIA.

My 13 year old son plays football at home regularly at a high level and would like to keep up his training and skills while we are away. Are there any football clubs around Ubon or Sisaket he could train or play with for the next few weeks? Or if there isn't any grassroots football or training anywhere here, are there any other sports or athletics he could do for a few weeks? TIA

Is this the wrong forum to ask in?

Or if there isn't any grassroots football or training anywhere here, are there any other sports or athletics he could do for a few weeks?

We are spending the summer in Thailand from the UK. My 13 year old son plays football at home regularly and would like to keep up his training and skills while we are away. Are there any football clubs in Ubon or Sisaket he could train or play with for the next few weeks? TIA

Apparently it started yesterday! Either way, I'm the same as you, I don't trust them to not reverse it before I travel so I wanted to get an eVisa for peace of mind. All approved now so all good. I submitted it Friday and approved Monday. Would use again. 👍

I already have a real hotel booking for a week from the day we arrive, however the booking confirmation I submitted didn't have the full address and telephone number which I now realise is the additional info they requested. Instead I submitted a signed letter from my wife detailing that we would stay in her house after the hotel. They just wanted a copy of her ID card and now the visa has been approved. I've also heard rhay today they have started doing the 60 day entry stamps which is just my luck! 🤣

Just realised the problem. The booking confirmation I sent them didn't have the full address and telephone number of the hotel on it.

Well that didn't work! So I can now make a letter from my wide stating out our travel plans and the address and dates we will stay in the house, but there is no Thai phone number to put on it because she is in the UK and doesn't have a Thai number any more.

Thanks. Submitted and paid for now. If it goes wrong I'll get a cheap flight to Malaysia so I can fly to Thailand. Cheers

I'm in the UK too. Thanks I'll complete the application now. What did you use as proof of your current location? A home addressed letter?

Thanks. Do you know how long it takes to get the eVisa processed?

Can anyone help with the eVisa application please? We are going in 1 month for 39 days. First, is it worth doing an eVisa or does it take a long time to process or have a chance of being glitched or rejected? So far, my experience on the website is that it's quite glitchy. The alternative to getting an eVisa would be booking a cheap flight out of Thailand before my 30 visa entry stamp and then going to Immigration to extend my 30 days. This is how I've done it before. The part I'm stuck on for the eVisa is accommodation. We are going for 39 days, the first week is in a hotel I've pre-booked. The rest of the trip will be staying at our house in Ubon. The only option for this on the application is to select "Private Accommodation" but then it asks for the name of the property. I assumed I put my wife's name (?) but then it needs a Thai phone number which isn't applicable because my wife is currently with me in the UK and doesn't have a Thai phone number, and there's no landline at the house. Am I doing this wrong? Is there another way to specify staying at someone's house? TIA

I'm travelling to Thailand on 22nd July. Is this new 60 day visa exempt rule going to happen before then? If not, is everyone using the eVisa? I'm currently doing an application on there but it's much more complicated than it needs to be. Does anyone know how long it takes for the eVisa to process? And are they generally successful? TIA

Hi. My Thai wife and I live permanently in the UK. We would like her two parents to visit and stay with us for the first time for a holiday. We are both in the UK at the moment. My wife has found several agents in Thailand who could assist with her parent's UK visit visa, compile and translate all of their paperwork and documents, fill in the application and apply for the visa for them, but there is no consistency between what any of them are saying needs to be done. My in-laws are in Ubon Rachathani. Once agency is saying that they will have to travel to Bangkok just to do biometrics at VFS at the Trendy building. Is this correct or can biometrics be done in other cities? Could somebody please help me by telling me what the actual formalities are now? I applied for all of my wife's UK visit visas while we lived in Thailand but it was much easier being there to do it, and the procedure sounds different to how it is now. Are there any agents in Ubon who would do everything for us, including Biometrics there? We would just like to get this done in the easiest way possible for her parents. Shipping them to BKK and back just to do biometrics doesn't seem like the easiest way! Thanks in advance for any help.

I would love nothing more than to be fluent in Thai, it would greatly improve my life in Thailand, especially with my future in-laws and family. I'm usually pretty good at learning new languages; I've lived all over Asia for the last 10 years and always picked up the language in the place I stayed without trying too hard; I could speak enough Mandarin in a supermarket after only being in China for 2 weeks to help out another farang who was having trouble at the till; after a year I could speak good basic Mandarin just from living there. I learnt enough Finnish to be able to converse with my Finnish gf's father after we had stayed with them in Finland for a few months. I could speak enough Russian to get by with my employees when I worked there for a couple of years. All of these are difficult languages for someone who's first language is English but they all came quite easy to me to get to a basic level. For some reason Thai is just not sticking in the same way. After trying hard to learn Thai for a year I still cannot speak as much Thai as I could Mandarin just after being in China for just 2 weeks. I don't know why. The reason for this thread is basically a confidence boost and to find out what level I can realistically believe to attain by comparing to other members who are going and gone through the same thing I am. When I first started reading this forum I was amazed and impressed by all of the fluent Thai speakers who were writing and translating in Thai script, it still impresses me when members post Thai sayings or poems that they know, and I thought that with enough studying and effort I could be that. However my confidence was rocked when another member in here said he had actively been trying to learn Thai for 30 odd years and after many attempts at lessons and different methods he still couldn't even hold a basic conversation with the 7/11 cashier, at the moment I can imagine I could be that! That almost made me give up and killed off a lot of my motivation. What's worrying is a lot of people agreeing in that thread that Thai is basically an impossible language to be learn for some people. So, for anyone who is learning Thai or is fluent, 1. What level are you at? 2. Can you read and write Thai? 3. How long have you been learning for? 4. How did you learn? 5. What other languages could you speak before Thai? For me; 1. My Thai is terrible. Still not even basic Thai. I can ask simple questions and if I'm lucky understand the answer. People are starting to be nice and tell me my Thai is great but I have zero confidence in it right now. I'm starting to be able to understand a couple of words per sentence when other Thais are talking to each so occasionally I can get the context of a conversation but there are times when I just sit there clueless not understanding even one word. Sometimes when I learn a new word and use it all day, a couple of days later it's gone. I never had this problem with any other languages before so my vocab is increasing very, very slowly. 2. I found it relaively easy to learn the Thai alphabet so I can read Thai script but apart from very common words I usually don't know the words that I am reading out. If I'm lucky when reading out the words I will hear and recognise them and then understand the sentence. I have some Thai friends on Facebook so I try to understand their updates and correctly contribute every day, but even words I wrote out a hundred times can still look new to me in the middle of a sentence. 3. Actively just under 1 year. I live in Bangkok most of the time and my Thai hardly improves at all when I am there so it wasn't until I went to stay with my gf's parents in Isaan that I started to really learn any Thai. When I go to Isaan with my gf I pick up 10 times more Thai than in BKK. 4. I have Benjawan Poomsan's "Thai for Beginner's" but I've mostly only been using it as a reference. I used it to learn the Thai alphabet. The bulk of my Thai (which is not much) comes from being in a place where nobody speaks any English, unfortunately they all speak Isaan to each other, but they talk Thai to me. I also have Thai2English software on my laptop which I think is awesome and teaches me a lot as a live dictionary. 5. First language is English. Did advanced French at Uni. Picked up basic Finnish, Madarin and Russian along the way. Can still remember everything I learned about them. Would give up all my knowledge of them all if I could convert it into Thai. So please, any success stories or failures, at least I can get an idea of what to expect. Any tips would be appreciated too. I know I'm not putting the effort in that I should, I should study my book and CD properly, and I would like to do some real lessons in BKK, I just didn't expect Thai to be so much harder than the other languages I learnt.