Video: A Thai Student Gives Advice On How She Became Fluent In English

[vijer]

Yes, it was rehearsed rather than spontaneous, but she nevertheless obviously knows what she's saying, has good pronunciation and obviously could converse with any of us given the chance. She already sounds better than most Thai English teachers, probably because her parents speak good (American) English . She'll go far.

but so will tata young's kids...

parading this girl around as some apogee of the thai school system is disgusting and so typically thai "false", where face>progress. of course the girl can speak some english. for all we know her parents have her study abroad during school breaks. notice how she says virtually nothing about her teachers/school

lets go interview her classmates/teachers and see how they can speak. o, thats right, they cant because the thai school system fails the students in every way possible.

this is reality:

this one is even better. teacher zach can't even speak english himself.

Hey I could do that at my school, hand pick 8 kids out of 5,000 and ask them the basics, "what is your name", "how are you", "where do you live", etc. They could all answer. Then I would ask them "what will you do on Saturday". They will all have to think for a long time and say something like, "nothing", "eat noodle".

The Thai education system is failing to teach English because you can't fail any student so all teachers just make the tests really really simple. Students know that they cannot fail a class so they don't pay attention in class or practice English anywhere, not even in class.

It would be better if they made English an elective class. Then the students that want to learn English can lean and the students that want to <deleted> off will not be in the class to disrupt the real students

[bridge2bridge]

WOW what a bright little girl, good on her for taking the time to learn English.

English is the modt spoken language in the world.

It is good when non english speaking people try to teach themselves.

She has a good career ahead of her.

I wish my Thai G/F would make the same effort.

[culicine]

I heard a kindy 3 student parrot a script at their "graduation" for a whole two minutes.....you reckon a 6 year old would really understand the "self-sacrifices made by my parents"...the silly parents just lapped it up. You could go up and speak to that child afterwards and they wouldn't have a clue what you were saying....we might start to make some progress when face runs second to real education.

As other's have mentioned, having to pass all students (even though they are 5-7 years behind their grade level), it disastrous for education in this country. I've taught here 12 years and have seen a consistent decline in performance and attitude of students. It doesn't help when universities also admit these students (we had some consistently fail maths and physics), yet are still admitted to mechanical engineering in university. Most long term colleagues agree with me on this.

[n00b]

As long as they keep dubbing movies they won't learn English.