Search for any Thai text to read and when you hit the first word you don't know then learn it. That's a really good filter. Scan through Thai peoples facebook is good for common words but it's also quite hard because of all the slang and expressions they use, and honestly you probably won't be speaking that naturally. News sites are another good source if you keep away from politics which have government agency names etc... which you don't really need.
If you can't read then you should do that first before anything else. Then you can try some social media content like YouTube and when you hear a word you don't understand ask a Thai person what it means or if you can manage to spell it then you can search yourself. I'm not nearly good enough to spell out Thai words I hear so I would ask my wife.
I had two similar experiences with EMS, the first small parcel took almost 6 weeks to arrive, it went off the tracking radar at BKK with no way of findingoutwhathadhappened.
The second, important legal documents, took 4 weeks again, they disappeared from tracking at BKK.
Due to the urgent importance, I had to reprint the documents and have them legalised again, then sent via DHL. These arrived 4 days later.
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