Check This Falang Out, Fluent Issan Kruu Adam.

[krisb]

[KhunBENQ]

I am jealous.

He seems to have a lot of fun with the locals!

[KhunBENQ]

He has a full youtube channel

http://www.youtube.com/user/jadambrad

Most of the videos are for Thais learning English.

But there are also some Thai lessons for farangs.

[sirchai]

Gotta love this guy....

[krisb]

Hes a good 1. He started out as a missionary from the mormons in the us.

[JINGJOH]

Also had his own tv show on Thai tv for a while there, "wink wink English" but I haven't seen it on recently.

Think he may also be a member of this forum as I thought I saw some posts for him.

[Somtamnication]

Nice guy and the locals appreciate his language skills. My wife just jabbed me in the ribs about my Thai. "You lazy to speak like he".

[BigBangkokTheory]

Wow. I'm jealous! I hope I'm half that fluent one day.

[krisb]

Nice guy and the locals appreciate his language skills. My wife just jabbed me in the ribs about my Thai. "You lazy to speak like he".

Jab her back and say you English lazy to.

[thejcb]

I can speak Thai Issan (Laos) and let me tell you they soon tire of falungfs speaking their language. Most of them don't like it and I have even been told I am "kee nock" (worthless)because I can speak Laos. It is not much fun speaking to these people in the villages. been there and done it yawn yawn !!!!

[fatfather]

I can speak Thai Issan (Laos) and let me tell you they soon tire of falungfs speaking their language. Most of them don't like it and I have even been told I am "kee nock" (worthless)because I can speak Laos. It is not much fun speaking to these people in the villages. been there and done it yawn yawn !!!!

Doesn't 'kee nok' mean 'stingy'?

Fatfather

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[fatfather]

Just got a lesson from my wife. Kee Nok 'worthless' Kee Niau 'stingy'

Sorry

Fatfather

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[cardholder]

Just got a lesson from my wife. Kee Nok 'worthless' Kee Niau 'stingy'

Sorry

Fatfather

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Literally, it does, but it has the same connotations with locals as 'low class' (or worthless). So I am told............

[MeMock]

I can speak Thai Issan (Laos) and let me tell you they soon tire of falungfs speaking their language. Most of them don't like it and I have even been told I am "kee nock" (worthless)because I can speak Laos. It is not much fun speaking to these people in the villages. been there and done it yawn yawn !!!!

You must hang out with some pretty low class kind of people if that is the reaction you get.

[krisb]

I can speak Thai Issan (Laos) and let me tell you they soon tire of falungfs speaking their language. Most of them don't like it and I have even been told I am "kee nock" (worthless)because I can speak Laos. It is not much fun speaking to these people in the villages. been there and done it yawn yawn !!!!

You must hang out with some pretty low class kind of people if that is the reaction you get.

Agree. Sorry find his story hard to believe.

[Huayrat]

I can speak Thai Issan (Laos) and let me tell you they soon tire of falungfs speaking their language. Most of them don't like it and I have even been told I am "kee nock" (worthless)because I can speak Laos. It is not much fun speaking to these people in the villages. been there and done it yawn yawn !!!!

Doesn't 'kee nok' mean 'stingy'?

Fatfather

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It means bird shit

[KhunBENQ]

ขี้นก (khee^F nohk^H)

yes literally: bird shit.

In reality it stands for (thai-language.com):

fake; phoney; bogus; spurious; pretended; feigned; sham; low-class; inferior; insignificant; meaningless; worthless

It is an offensive insult and there is no reason to smile at if a Thai tells you like that.

Edited December 16, 2012 by KhunBENQ

[sirchai]

ขี้นก (khee^F nohk^H)

yes literally: bird shit.

In reality it stands for (thai-language.com):

fake; phoney; bogus; spurious; pretended; feigned; sham; low-class; inferior; insignificant; meaningless; worthless

It is an offensive insult and there is no reason to smile at if a Thai tells you like that.

It also means that you don't have money. Absolutely no money. Thais in my wife's village would never call me that.

It's like saying Kwai to a Thai......

[sirchai]

I can speak Thai Issan (Laos) and let me tell you they soon tire of falungfs speaking their language. Most of them don't like it and I have even been told I am "kee nock" (worthless)because I can speak Laos. It is not much fun speaking to these people in the villages. been there and done it yawn yawn !!!!

Seems that speaking "Isaan" with you isn't fun for them either.....

[Michael Hare]

ขี้นก (khee^F nohk^H)

yes literally: bird shit.

In reality it stands for (thai-language.com):

fake; phoney; bogus; spurious; pretended; feigned; sham; low-class; inferior; insignificant; meaningless; worthless

It is an offensive insult and there is no reason to smile at if a Thai tells you like that.

It also means that you don't have money. Absolutely no money. Thais in my wife's village would never call me that.

It's like saying Kwai to a Thai......

This term "farang khee nok" is a fairly recent term I believe. When I was here in the 1970s I never heard it expressed and there were lots of GIs around at the time in the major cities in Isaan-Ubon, Udorn, Sakon Nakhon, Nakhon Pannom and Korat.

I asked a Thai academic friend of mine where did this term come from. She is from a village and also said it is a recent term-maybe no more than 10-15 years old.

In the past, village people had only seen farangs who had money or status. For example, the foreign aid projects which were commonplace in many parts of Isaan with experts in engineering, roading, agriculture, teaching etc being fairly common. Then there were the volunteers like Peace Corps who worked in many professions, spoke Thai well and understood local customs. Generally these people conducted themselves well. They dressed well, wore long trousers in public, did not wear flipflops in public, never wore singlets and showed off tattoos.

Then all of a sudden these farangs, mostly older men, suddenly started appearing and living in the villages. They didn't seem to do anything. They looked poor, dressed very roughly, they didn't seem to mind what they ate, but they didn't know much about the local customs and couldn't speak Thai.

To the villagers it seemed they just dropped in like a piece of bird shit landing on the window of your car or on your arm when out walking. Annoying. Hence the term bird-shit farang started up. My friend said that in the beginning it was mostly applied in villages to the poor old farang men who didn't do anything all day and always looked poor. It was used in a joking sort of way.

However, lately the term has begun to be applied to farangs in the cities. Especially those farangs who go out in public, like to Tesco Lotus etc, dressed in shorts, wearing singlets and flip flops and looking poor. The term usually is used for older farang men and not to young farang men who dress like that because, well, they are just young and our young Thais dress like that too.

Unfortunately in Thailand, people judge a book by its cover and it is mostly form and little substance.

My friend said while term probably started out in a joking way, it is not any more. It is now an offensive and derogatory term and when Thais use it to describe a farang they really mean that farang is bird shit.

[Geekfreaklover]

On one minute twenty something the old lady says 'I don't know what this man is saying...' Joking of course...Nice clip..

Edited December 16, 2012 by Geekfreaklover

[JimmyTheMook]

On one minute twenty something the old lady says 'I don't know what this man is saying...' Joking of course...Nice clip..

He also speaking Thai the majority of the time with a smattering of Baan Nok phrases.

[DILLIGAD]

I am envious but still cannot see any need to wear a dish cloth round my head(local silk or not)? Suppose its marginally better than the 'God Botherers' shirt and ties!

Edited December 16, 2012 by DILLIGAD

[krisb]

I am envious but still cannot see any need to wear a dish cloth round my head(local silk or not)? Suppose its marginally better than the 'God Botherers' shirt and ties!

Or those terrible 'good guy goes to heaven bad guy goes to Pattaya' t shirts!

[FredLee]

ขี้นก (khee^F nohk^H)

yes literally: bird shit.

In reality it stands for (thai-language.com):

fake; phoney; bogus; spurious; pretended; feigned; sham; low-class; inferior; insignificant; meaningless; worthless

It is an offensive insult and there is no reason to smile at if a Thai tells you like that.

Similar to "bull shit" in the American English venacular.

[bina]

husband insisted that i learn 'proper' thai and not his korat thai or issan thai as yes, he saw that as 'slumming' or 'low class'... i saw it as just an other dialect...

and many other thais ive met have voiced the same feelings, although a good friend of mine with issaan husband speaks issan thai (she is the farang) and the (thai)guys seem to like it, but she is younger then me by about 20 years so it could be a thing of status and what is seen as appropriate... sort of like a proper grandmother speaking some american vernacular as opposed to more 'polite' english (as in miss manners....5)..

just saying