Thai language study group "Kaizen" in Chiang Mai (ป.๓-๔-๕).

[Old Curmudgeon]

Maybe I'd get better response if I posted in the forum section here for learning Thai language.

 

But I think working together in person is the best way to approach this.

Responses from expats all over Thailand would make it difficult to work by long-distance.

That's why I focused on Chiang Mai.

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, 1FinickyOne said:

The James Cagney approach

 

I'm an Anki Doodle Dandy

 

And I am a dirty rat.

 

Although Cagney never said this, to my face.

 

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

[GammaGlobulin]

3 minutes ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

Maybe I'd get better response if I posted in the forum section here for learning Thai language.

 

But I think working together in person is the best way to approach this.

Responses from expats all over Thailand would make it difficult to work by long-distance.

That's why I focused on Chiang Mai.

 

 

These days, collaboration via internet is the best way, by far.

Better access to resources, and many more reasons, such as time saved not sitting in traffic, and possible return of some pandemic, etc.

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

Well, here we are on Page 2 of this thread.

That means the value of this topic will start to evaporate.

 

On any forum, with any serious or thoughtful topic, meaningful posts start to taper off on page 2.

And by page 3 and beyond it just becomes a gaggle of monkey chatter.

Not worth the effort.

 

So I'm going to disengage here.  (I'm the original poster.)

I'll stop "following" this thread and won't get any more notices of new posts.

 

If anyone wants further discussion with me about this, well, you know what to do.

 

 

[GammaGlobulin]

1 minute ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

Well, here we are on Page 2 of this thread.

That means the value of this topic will start to evaporate.

 

On any forum, with any serious or thoughtful topic, meaningful posts start to taper off on page 2.

And by page 3 and beyond it just becomes a gaggle of monkey chatter.

Not worth the effort.

 

So I'm going to disengage here.  (I'm the original poster.)

I'll stop "following" this thread and won't get any more notices of new posts.

 

If anyone wants further discussion with me about this, well, you know what to do.

 

 

 

No worries.

I, for one, do not intend to engage in monkey chatter.

 

However, if you are as interested in having a Japanese member of your group as you say, then the likelihood of actually having this happen will be greater if you were to use the internet to recruit candidates, worldwide, and in Japan, rather than insisting that your group be local, only.

 

 

[placnx]

On 12/4/2024 at 5:26 PM, Old Curmudgeon said:

 

Certainly.

I already wrote a bit about Kaizen method above.

Apparently not clear enough.

It means, "continuous improvement".

Everything and everywhere.

A conscious attempt to make any process better, and better,  and better.

Kaizen method never ends, is never finished.

Learning a language (or learning anything really) is a process.

Hence, the commonality with process engineering.

 

I've been applying Kaizen + Lean to my learning of Thai language.

Results have been pretty good.

Not stunning, but far better than results from any of several Thai language schools that I've attended.

 

But I want better results, and faster, so I posted here to find others of like mind hoping we could help together.

 

And there I will end my explanation of Kaizen.

I did not post here to promote that.

I'm only looking for other language learners who are already familiar with the Kaizen method.

Thanks. I can see the idea of people with quite advanced knowledge of Thai getting together to help each other polish their command of the language.

[placnx]

On 12/4/2024 at 5:42 PM, Old Curmudgeon said:

Maybe I'd get better response if I posted in the forum section here for learning Thai language.

 

But I think working together in person is the best way to approach this.

Responses from expats all over Thailand would make it difficult to work by long-distance.

That's why I focused on Chiang Mai.

 

Maybe you could use Zoom. That way you could get more people who are qualified.