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Sole searching: Foreign man’s shoes stolen from Thai beach - video
I leave my 5000 baht custom Chaco Z1 sandals outside establishments all the time, like I said, so far so good 🙏 -
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Trump Plans new Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China
I would be more than a little surprised if you understand anything they say, let alone express their views on the cost of living with you. Professional Expat farm sounds interesting, can I have one? -
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Thai man sorry for brutal assault of Bangkok taxi driver - video
Watch the video...........100% BS -
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Communication in English with Thai gf
My gf is actually a great communicator and very honest and direct usually. Her English is definitely above average for a Thai person. I find though that as the relationship progresses, we seem to have more and more communication issues. We mostly communicate in English, as my Thai is currently not good enough for deeper communication. I find that as the relationship progresses, I seem to understand her less and less, up to the point that I sometimes have no idea what the hell she is saying. She puts it down to me already pulling my annoyed face when she starts talking English which makes her nervous and unable to communicate well. I guess that that's definitely true, but it might not be the entire reason behind the communication issues. It might also be a natural progression whereby in the beginning of the relationship you just try harder to make proper sentences in a foreign language and after a while you just don't have the energy to keep up that effort. For me English is also a foreign language but I use English in my job on a daily basis and have studied it since I was about 10, so I am almost just as comfortable in English as in my native language. I feel like maybe, since I professionally work with languages, I am too critical of her English and get annoyed too easily by small mistakes. I know this happened to me in a previous relationship with a western girl who had very decent but far from perfect English. With her I communicated in about 4 languages, but after a few years it felt like we didn't know what the hell the both of us were saying. I notice that with my current gf, she is just not great at explaining or phrasing things. If she tells me something in Thai and I don't understand, she will just repeat it, thinking that if she repeats it, at some point I will understand. She won't use different or easier words to facilitate my understanding. I am wondering how people here handle these kind of issues with their partners. I definitely feel the effort should probably be coming from me, meaning I should learn better Thai as soon as possible so we can switch to Thai. However, to communicate about feelings and complicated issues in Thai might be something that is a bit further on the horizon. -
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Jay Rayner Accuses The Guardian of Failing to Address Anti-Semitism
Historically, the Left is murderously anti-semitic -
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UN Removes Genocide Advisor: She Refused To Label Israels actions as Genocide
Can you elaborate? Without facts to back up your claim, that is simply slander. -
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Donald Trump has NO mandate -- not for his election and not for his extremist policies
Interesting article by a psychologist reflecting on the psychological morass that his Left-leaning, progressive clients have fallen into regarding the Trump phenomenon. This article does not pass judgement or disparage any of these people. It's just a psychologists reflections on the real angst of his clients post-election as well as a discussion regarding what the real cause may be. I forward this article as it describes the same conditions as many of our "liberal" members on this forum who are obviously really hurting and are having issues adapting to this current reality. https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-libs-are-not-alright/
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