oh, I have no objection to learning anything... I am conversational and speak in sentences so when I miss a tone, they probably pick it up in context... I can read, a little - my Thai friends message me in Thai... sometimes it takes a few minutes to get all the words...
my biggest deficit is in comprehending - again, context helps but I do not always know every word that is used... almost no Thai person speaks to me in English. I enjoy the language and am always working at it, in my own way...
I had a neighbor from England who could read Thai language - - he just didn't know what any of the words meant... and he never ddi learn. Seemed pretty useless to me, but...