NanLaew Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 17 hours ago, Destiny1990 said: Okey you defend him because his school was an paying advertiser on this website. Who's defending what now? The percentage of 'students' that honestly wanted to learn the lingo through ALL such establishments was hugely eclipsed by the number of 'students' that just wanted to hang out, long time in LOS. There wasn't any meaningful certificate of education that was earned here. The guy was just one of many who monetized a Thai Immigration gravy train. Who he paid any advertising fees to, like your bizarre need to find something debatable here, is largely irrelevant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted June 13, 2019 Share Posted June 13, 2019 12 hours ago, NanLaew said: Who's defending what now? The percentage of 'students' that honestly wanted to learn the lingo through ALL such establishments was hugely eclipsed by the number of 'students' that just wanted to hang out, long time in LOS. There wasn't any meaningful certificate of education that was earned here. The guy was just one of many who monetized a Thai Immigration gravy train. Who he paid any advertising fees to, like your bizarre need to find something debatable here, is largely irrelevant. He claimed to have a special system (memorizing words and sentences) to learn how to speak Thai faster then other language schools. That claim wasn’t true at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 18 hours ago, Destiny1990 said: He claimed to have a special system (memorizing words and sentences) to learn how to speak Thai faster then other language schools. That claim wasn’t true at all. Did you purchase and participate in this course? If yes and it didn't work for you then I can see why you keep going on about it. If you are claiming it's because you know of some people that it didn't work out for, then I suggest maybe it's time to let it go. Pretty sure the people you know have done so already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 1 hour ago, NanLaew said: Did you purchase and participate in this course? If yes and it didn't work for you then I can see why you keep going on about it. If you are claiming it's because you know of some people that it didn't work out for, then I suggest maybe it's time to let it go. Pretty sure the people you know have done so already. The topic is Mc Walen so just try to give some valuable background information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NanLaew Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 2 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said: The topic is Mc Walen so just try to give some valuable background information. The topic is actually about his long-expired SET beginners investors classes and bugger all to do with his ED visa based business venture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 On 6/13/2019 at 8:52 PM, Destiny1990 said: He claimed to have a special system (memorizing words and sentences) to learn how to speak Thai faster then other language schools. That claim wasn’t true at all. he did nothing different than what entrepreneurs do selling a product or services... and let's not forget the politicians or what the... the whole world surrounding us does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destiny1990 Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 25 minutes ago, Naam said: he did nothing different than what entrepreneurs do selling a product or services... and let's not forget the politicians or what the... the whole world surrounding us does. Yeah that’s right.. in all fairness the guy is trying to have an original approach on matters but for a teacher and or for a SET coaching guy I rather sign up with a successful person. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallGuyJohninBKK Posted June 14, 2019 Share Posted June 14, 2019 I always like these "whatever happened to" stories or threads.... The Thai EN language media does a horrible job of following up most of the time on the things they report on.... And that then translates into the threads here, where things surface and you never know the ultimate outcome. I'm guessing, just guessing, that the average farang-owned business probably doesn't have a very long average lifespan in Thailand... Who knows, McWalen may well have outlasted the average. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooping20Baht Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 (edited) they do say 'if you don't have something nice to say .......' etc , but as I recall, it did make a difference , as it particularly does in Thailand, Cui Bono, on the guys posts , sort of lack of ethics and scruples from any such outfit in Thai, or anything having to do with 'investing' ; glad to not hear that guys name in a long time, and going forward ..... though, obtaining a visa is fairly innocuous , or how thai woman are treated in Thailand less so, his type of investing was likely not ....... barge pole suggested but yeah track him down on his fb page and have a chat ???? Edited June 15, 2019 by mooping20Baht a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBKK Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 I attended a few classes at Walen, actually the method worked quite well... of course if you are 60 and never attend classes you are not going to learn anything. Everything I learnt at Walen stuck into my head, even 10 years later still fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusarelus Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 8 minutes ago, JohnnyBKK said: I attended a few classes at Walen, actually the method worked quite well... of course if you are 60 and never attend classes you are not going to learn anything. Everything I learnt at Walen stuck into my head, even 10 years later still fresh. Nice to know age is so important. If you are under 60 you don't have to attend class to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naam Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 1 hour ago, marcusarelus said: 1 hour ago, JohnnyBKK said: I attended a few classes at Walen, actually the method worked quite well... of course if you are 60 and never attend classes you are not going to learn anything. Everything I learnt at Walen stuck into my head, even 10 years later still fresh. Nice to know age is so important. If you are under 60 you don't have to attend class to learn. after being resident for nearly 15 years i've reached a rather high level of Thai language commandment. i greet people "suppa dee crap" meaning "dinner wasn't well prepared" and tell the chap who wants to double charge a Farang "crap, crap!" meaning "no thank you". only recently my wife caught up with my superior knowledge. she knows both versions (female version) too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchega Posted June 17, 2019 Share Posted June 17, 2019 indeed Naam, I find shouting crap while smiling when being heckled in a tourist area always helps me too. Admittedly I have a decade or two of youth on my side but my high level Thai extends to all sorts of sophisticated ways of demonstrating I don't understand and what I do understand I am not all that sure the question asked was correct 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mooping20Baht Posted June 18, 2019 Share Posted June 18, 2019 I guess one gets immune to the irony of the "polite" term to males sentences ....down the smiling rabbit hole to find the cat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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