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What video can a Thai use to learn everyday English at a basic level?

Anything on YouTube, Rumble, Bitchute that your wife/girl friend has used successfully?

At no cost or very lost cost?

 

One of my Thai helpers is diligently trying to learn English.

(Local woman, 45 years old, just basic education.)

She paid 350 baht for access to this series of videos.

 

So what did she learn to say today?

"I am always growing and evolving." ! ! !

 

She is a housemaid.

Needs common, everyday words for things around the house, at the market, etc.

Not this "new-age" nonsense.

 

I had a brief look through the lessons.

All of them are like that.

And the lessons are delivered in a sing-song voice (English) that sounds like a church sermon, not real-life conversation.

 

 

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Suggestions, please for where she can find practical English training videos,

without spending much money.

(Going to an English school is not an option.)

 

Thank you.

 

 

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Thank you @CharlieH for that suggestion.

 

Having learned Thai myself, starting with the alphabet, rather than language school happy talk, I know the value of building a strong foundation.

 

However, my Thai helper could not even begin to comprehend a grammar video like this, with the teacher speaking only English.

 

What she needs is "repeat after me" style of teaching with explanations in Thai.

 

I'm hoping someone seeing this thread will say, "Here is a video series my wife uses a little every day and her English has improved greatly."

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5 hours ago, Old Curmudgeon said:

Thank you @CharlieH for that suggestion.

 

Having learned Thai myself, starting with the alphabet, rather than language school happy talk, I know the value of building a strong foundation.

 

However, my Thai helper could not even begin to comprehend a grammar video like this, with the teacher speaking only English.

 

What she needs is "repeat after me" style of teaching with explanations in Thai.

 

I'm hoping someone seeing this thread will say, "Here is a video series my wife uses a little every day and her English has improved greatly."

Do it yourself. Speak as you go. Learning by doing.

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Are you paying her to learn your language? If you can speak Thai why should she learn English?

 

She needs to first learn to identify the alphabet and the phonics that go with it.  Putting aside the fact 'maids' don't need to write (or use any)

 

Make a video of each room. Point the camera at objects and then slowly and clearly state what that object is. Do ten objects for each video. You can place cards on objects if she can read English.. also write in Thai. If you're creative you can even do some adjectives and adverbs

 

Make another video about people. This will be names of people, relationships a d most importantly pronouns.

 

Make a video a few on basic verbs and another few on adjectives.  Create another on adverbs. Finally, one on colors.

 

That should give her plenty to get her head around and enough English for a cleaner

 

When she can have a rudimentary conversational exchange ask her to try a chatbot online to converse with for practice.

 

There are plenty of videos online she could watch /listen to should she have the desire.

 

My wife learned English on her own talking with me. She'd pushed herself to read although that skill is poor. Her writing even worse. I'm perfectly ok with it bc I'm never going back to learn Thai at 65 other than build vocabulary

 

I never properly learned Thai because there's such a low return for me both in country and especially outside. I had other things in my life that kept me very busy.  There's an equally low return for a cleaner to learn English.

 

Don't waste your time asking in the teaching forum they won't have a clue.

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@Highball is spot on with the home made video approach.

Best ways to learn a language is Saturation Technique and Cognitive Recognition(CR).

So for Saturation, include things like listening to English radio and watching the news, suggest something like Tim Newton Today (TNT) as only 10+ minutes daily, so if she watches Thai TV news bulletin then ties in with CR. When crash coursing a language for business, then living in the actual country is highly beneficial. (Not applicable in your case). Also watching Thai  movies with English Subtitles.

As a teenager learning French use to read Tintin, Lucky Luke and Astérix comics in French, so not just the basic "La plume de ma tante"  you get in French text books. Improves vocabulary and also gives you a more conversational approach.

For basic steps, start with numbers before alphabet, easy to relate to as Thai's use the same Arabic numbering system. Also she needs a basic Thai-English pocket sized dictionary.

Another top-tip is fridge magnets letters or a white/black or cork  board. Useful for leaving simple instructions which she can confirm back on.

There use to be a book and course ( video) called English in 750 words, not sure if still exists, but was a big success in the London based language schools in the 80's / 90's. 

 

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Thank you to @Highball and @RayWright for their time and effort to post thoughtful suggestions on this thread.

 

Unfortunately, what both are missing ... entirely missing ... is the cultural context.

Thais and Westerners simply don't learn in the same ways.

The methods that will work for one, won't accomplish much for the other.

 

The study of methods of learning among different cultures is

known as psycho-epistemology.

It is one of my favorite topics, but it is not the topic of this thread.

 

I'm still hoping someone seeing this thread will post something like, "Here is a video series my Thai wife uses a little every day and her English has improved a lot."

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