By Online Reporter 

 

A student from Hua Hin recently talked her way to victory in a national English speaking competition.

 

Emily Pairin Hart, 12, finished ahead of students from across Thailand to win the top prize in the Impromptu Speech category at the 70th Student Arts & Crafts Competition, which was held in Ratchaburi in late January.

 

The Student Arts & Crafts Competition is an annual event organized by the Ministry of Education to encourage the development of both teachers and students in the arts and creativity.

 

The competition attracts students from all over the country, with participants competing in various categories, including mathematics, science and technology and music.

 

Full story: https://www.huahintoday.com/local-news/hua-hin-student-wins-top-prize-in-national-english-speaking-competition/

 

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To be fair the bar is set rather low

Children of mixed families in Thailand with fluency in English and Thai certainly have an advantage in a country where fluency in English is rare.

 

Edited March 15, 20233 yr by LosLobo

Well done congratulations ???? 

Can she understand English as well though ?

 

I know many Thai's who speak great English.. they understand very little though.

Well done to the young girl,   but  its not  a difficult  thing to achieve in a  country where English language is taught   by Teachers who can hardly manage to speak English themselves, I wonder who the judges were

4 minutes ago, LosLobo said:

Children of mixed families in Thailand with fluency in English and Thai certainly have an advantage in a country where fluency in English is rare.

 

Im sure netizens are up in arms over such a result. But having said that, kids from mixed families may vary in their English ability. I know a number of my mixed students have parents that only speak Thai with them. For my son we started out with me only speaking english to him and my wife speaking Thai. But now we both speak english to him, so he is comfortable speaking english to toehr Thais, which he needs to do in his current university course. 

I'm glad to see that things have moved on from the days of mixed race children being banned from English speaking competitions. (In darkest Isaan they may be slower to read the memo.) My daughter, who is now 18 years old, was always discriminated against in this regard. English speaking competitions were always promoted, sadly, as for "Thai's" only, otherwise it was "unfair!"  

2 hours ago, rbkk said:

I'm glad to see that things have moved on from the days of mixed race children being banned from English speaking competitions. (In darkest Isaan they may be slower to read the memo.) My daughter, who is now 18 years old, was always discriminated against in this regard. English speaking competitions were always promoted, sadly, as for "Thai's" only, otherwise it was "unfair!"  

Yes, past years, it has been opened to full and mixed Thai children.

 

The Thai daughter of my ex Thai partner, lived with us during her formative years where we mainly spoke English. And we regularly watched UK TV including CBeebies , now she is fluent in both English and Thai.

 

A couple of years ago she she was runner up in her province's English competition, to a boy with red hair obviously of mixed parents.

 

But this year, she also won a National English competition but would not be happy with the notoriety, if it was publicised outside of school circles.

 

Edited March 15, 20233 yr by LosLobo

7 hours ago, LosLobo said:

Yes, past years, it has been opened to full and mixed Thai children.

 

The Thai daughter of my ex Thai partner, lived with us during her formative years where we mainly spoke English. And we regularly watched UK TV including CBeebies , now she is fluent in both English and Thai.

 

A couple of years ago she she was runner up in her province's English competition, to a boy with red hair obviously of mixed parents.

 

But this year, she also won a National English competition but would not be happy with the notoriety, if it was publicised outside of school circles.

 

In the dim and distant past I remember a Thai mother telling me that she hoped her infant daughter would grow up doing the same thing with me (watching UK TV) and learn to speak English well.

 

A bit of a "Madame Butterfly" story (although not my child) was that particular time in my life.

 

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Edited March 15, 20233 yr by Enoon