Are Thais taught basic arithmetic?

[J Branche]

That's why I am trying to teach the kids in my girlfriends family to be better at math.

Solve the problems like you want to buy a motorbike. The deposit is 5000 baht you earn 500 baht a day working, how many days do you have to work to be able to pay the 5000 baht deposit?

 

Just trying to teach them how math is used in day to day life.  When they can do the math quicker than someone can get the answer from a calculator you have a winner.

[SiSePuede419]

Yes.

At age 4 in preschool.

Next! 😛

[DualSportBiker]

On 12/14/2024 at 1:51 PM, totsakan said:

Any factual reason why thai alphabet would be harder than any others?

 

Arabic or Chinese or hieroglyphics for exemple are obviously harder for a western mind but Thai and Latin are rather similar (at least for those who learned both). As i currently learn a "more difficult' alphabet I can tell Thai alphabet was easier for me and felt easier to remember for quite a few reasons.

I studied Latin for five years and must confess I struggle to see any similarity between Latin and Thai. Latin is highly structured, caters for a variety of tenses, infers actor, recipient, object very clearly through its accusative, dative etc cases. Thai is almost without structure, has limited vocab compared to English, and its syntax is minimalist. 

Can you explain to me how Latin and Thai share anything?

[DualSportBiker]

On 12/14/2024 at 1:52 PM, Lacessit said:

That is the difference.

 

Thais manage to combine three or four vowels in a single word. We do it with consonants.

 

Ask a Thai who has never encountered the word before to pronounce "refrigerator".

Do you mean like Nonthaburi (nntburee)? 

[DualSportBiker]

On 12/14/2024 at 3:30 PM, Lacessit said:

I don't disagree learning Thai is advantageous, and speak it well enough to cope with most situations. If I had learned it from childhood, I would be fluent.

 

I learned Latin, French and German as a teenager. Saying Thai is like Latin is ridiculous.

 

I did not start learning Thai until my late sixties, another reason for its difficulty. Perhaps you could cut older people some slack.

I studied French, Latin, German, Italian and Russian. Thai was a real shock when I moved here. I wholeheartedly agree, Latin and Thai have nothing in common.

[Hakuna Matata]

On 12/13/2024 at 12:12 PM, Lacessit said:

Today, I paid my green fees at a golf course. The cost was 350 baht for 9 holes.

 

I gave the manager a 1000 baht note, and a 50 baht note. He looked confused, and tried to give me the 50 baht note back

 

He was using a calculator. He has said before he has a university degree.

 

It's not the first time I have encountered this. Some staff in 7/11 get it, some do not.

 

Is it the education system?

 

Thailand Education System is the worst in the world! Oh my God.