Speaking English: Thailand vs Philippines

[Shancloudy]

My grandfather told me after the world war II the american government sent thousand of missionaries to educate the filipinos they created doctors, nurses, teachers and a lot more. As far as I know Filipino people love american people everytime I talk to my friends, classmates, neighbors they really happy for all the help of americans maybe because we are open minded we know how to appreciate all the help that we receive and we are eager to learn. I remember when I was a kid every children in Philippines received a powder milk and some food from american that was 20 years ago. And most of my playmates have an american poster parents to support them. I remember that time I was so jealous to my playmates because they received a beautiful toys from their poster parents every christmas hahaha but me, I don't have poster parents the filipino government told me that I don't need poster parents because my parents are businessman and they can give what I want. And everytime i went to the library I always read in the books that " this book is for filipino people given by _________ University in America." We filipino really feel the love and care of Americans.

yeah right, "poster"parents......IT SHOULD BE FOSTER!

Hahaha ok thanks for correcting me...

[QROPS]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

[thailiketoo]

People from the Philippines who teach English in Thailand work in Thailand because they work for CHEAP wages -- not because they can speak English correctly or are able to speak English without a debilitating accent... Philippine nationals for the most part speak POOR ENGLISH and speak English with a severe accent. Thus any Thai student in an English class conducted by a Philippine English instructor is likely to learn poor English and learn English with an accent that makes their English hardly understandable ... That's the bottom line folks - no matter how many may rationalize it ....

I was in the education contract business for a while providing English instructors to Thai industry. The Philippine teachers I employed all had degrees and 60% spoke and wrote English well. 20% were bad and 20 % were great speakers and teachers. There is a Philippine man who runs a school in Rayong that if you talked to him on the phone you would say 100% sure that he is an American. A lot of Philippine teachers in Thailand are on Facebook. Not hard to prove if anyone really wants to find the real information. The real bottom line is 8 out of 10 are good or better and a lot less expensive than Farang teachers.

[thailiketoo]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

I've been here like forever. English speakers and teachers from the Philippines; wives and food from Thailand.

[QROPS]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

I've been here like forever. English speakers and teachers from the Philippines; wives and food from Thailand.

Then you're in the minority of posters that can give a response worth reading. Do your "wives" know about each other?

Personally, I lived in the Philippines for a year and a half, I have a Filipino wife and daughter, and have lived in Bangkok for 6 years.

The trouble with threads like this, they generally turn into a 'willy waving' contest and become a bore.

[JDGRUEN]

People from the Philippines who teach English in Thailand work in Thailand because they work for CHEAP wages -- not because they can speak English correctly or are able to speak English without a debilitating accent... Philippine nationals for the most part speak POOR ENGLISH and speak English with a severe accent. Thus any Thai student in an English class conducted by a Philippine English instructor is likely to learn poor English and learn English with an accent that makes their English hardly understandable ... That's the bottom line folks - no matter how many may rationalize it ....

I was in the education contract business for a while providing English instructors to Thai industry. The Philippine teachers I employed all had degrees and 60% spoke and wrote English well. 20% were bad and 20 % were great speakers and teachers. There is a Philippine man who runs a school in Rayong that if you talked to him on the phone you would say 100% sure that he is an American. A lot of Philippine teachers in Thailand are on Facebook. Not hard to prove if anyone really wants to find the real information. The real bottom line is 8 out of 10 are good or better and a lot less expensive than Farang teachers.

Day Dreaming ... Broken English is Broken English and teaching Broken English is a sad situation

[JDGRUEN]

People from the Philippines who teach English in Thailand work in Thailand because they work for CHEAP wages -- not because they can speak English correctly or are able to speak English without a debilitating accent... Philippine nationals for the most part speak POOR ENGLISH and speak English with a severe accent. Thus any Thai student in an English class conducted by a Philippine English instructor is likely to learn poor English and learn English with an accent that makes their English hardly understandable ... That's the bottom line folks - no matter how many may rationalize it ....

Everybody has an accent anyway so accent shouldn't be an issue as other native english speakers has their own "debilitating" accent as you put it. Being able to speak the english language is one thing that Filipino's would always be proud of wherever they are. Of course, there are a few who cannot but that's one in a hundred I guess. They are willing to work CHEAP wages, for you, but for them it is not. You have to remember, everything is relative, what is cheap for you, may not be for some.

Fantasy land ... Broken English is the standard for Philippine spoken English ... teaching students broken English only produces broken English speakers

[Benmart]

Why all this hoobra over Thai/Philippino English skills? What is the point of having good English language skills like the Ph yet your country is still a basket case?

The Republic of the Phillipines is making progress in many areas. While not perfect, it is progress none-the-less. As for it being a "basket case"', I haven't achieved perfection and am not qualified to determine what fits into that vague category. Others attach names and slurs quite readily and my pontifcations would be wasted on the subject.

[JDGRUEN]

In Thai school systems -- those who run the schools - budget their English language Departments using Native English Language pay scales ... that is those native English language speakers from places like the U.K., Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Then the Thai school system hires English teachers from the Philippines -- at nearly half the wage scale ... Somewhere along the line -- the excess budget money is siphoned off to the senior school supervisor's pockets .... This is the Primary Reason Philippine teachers are hired in Thailand.. .

[Berkshire]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

Hmmmm. Well that explains why the Philippines is such a regional basketcase, with crime, corruption, and poverty much worse than Thailand. And it also explains why Thailand, with a population of around 30 million less, has about 40% higher GDP than the PI. Per capita GDP of Thailand is over double that of the PI. So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?

[pinebits]

People from the Philippines who teach English in Thailand work in Thailand because they work for CHEAP wages -- not because they can speak English correctly or are able to speak English without a debilitating accent... Philippine nationals for the most part speak POOR ENGLISH and speak English with a severe accent. Thus any Thai student in an English class conducted by a Philippine English instructor is likely to learn poor English and learn English with an accent that makes their English hardly understandable ... That's the bottom line folks - no matter how many may rationalize it ....

Everybody has an accent anyway so accent shouldn't be an issue as other native english speakers has their own "debilitating" accent as you put it. Being able to speak the english language is one thing that Filipino's would always be proud of wherever they are. Of course, there are a few who cannot but that's one in a hundred I guess. They are willing to work CHEAP wages, for you, but for them it is not. You have to remember, everything is relative, what is cheap for you, may not be for some.

Fantasy land ... Broken English is the standard for Philippine spoken English ... teaching students broken English only produces broken English speakers

Listen to yourself...you are indeed in your "own fantasy land!" enjoy the rest of the day..

[QROPS]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

Hmmmm. Well that explains why the Philippines is such a regional basketcase, with crime, corruption, and poverty much worse than Thailand. And it also explains why Thailand, with a population of around 30 million less, has about 40% higher GDP than the PI. Per capita GDP of Thailand is over double that of the PI. So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?

Bringing up GDP is a non starter, as a comparison between Thailand and the Philippines means next to nothing in this respect. The fact of the matter is that most of either countries wealth is held by a few "Elite" families, so in turn this doesn't offer a decent representation when in both countries you will find people living below the poverty line.

You would also assume that a country with a higher GDP should be able to offer a better education system, what happened in Thailand?

The Philippines with all of it's crime, corruption, poverty and low GDP, still manages to have an educational system that teaches their pupils in the international business language of the world.

Yes there is serious levels of crime in both countries, and unless there is a paradigm shift that will always be the case.

The Philippines has more overseas workers than any other country in the world so to quote your good self "So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?" doesn't really hold much ground now does it? Roughly 10% of the Philippine population work abroad.

[bonobo]

So to answer your question, Why the people of the Philippines have more English speakers and teachers then Thailand, was a result of 48 years of English language was forced on the people of the Philippines as it official language!

Cheers

First of all sir it was never forced on the Filipino culture. They did have two bases there but are now down to one and Subic Bay is located outside of Angeles city.

English is there second-language because of the American influence, that is correct! I visited many schools when I was in the Philippines basically because I was a principal from the USA. They are taught English on the first grade level through the 12th grade level. They are the third largest English speaking country in the world. They have approximately 94% literacy in the Philippines.

Not to get picky, but there are no American bases in the Philippines anymore. There were two large bases, one Navy and one Air Force, and a number of smaller bases, but they were closed shortly after Mt Pinatubo blew. Subic Bay is located outside of Olongapo, not Angeles (Clark Air Base was the one located outside of Angeles.) Subic is now a commercial port, a Free Trade Zone, and a number of factories, the largest being Kyocera. Clark is a commercial airport, and the UAE has invested huge amounts for a new commercial zone there.

Prior to the US control of the Philippines, the country's official language was Spanish. After the US took over, yes, "forced" change to English is a valid description. Due to the close ties between the US and the Philippines though, and due to the fact that the country has so many regional languages, English has remained a vital component of the Philippines and has remained in the Filipino educational system.

One thing the Philippines does well is to train and certify its overseas workers. In my humble opinion, the Filipino English teachers in Thailand, on the whole, speak English better than those from other English-speaking countries. I think this is because the Filipinos are certified as to their grasp of the language and are trained in teaching whereas in many schools, just being a native speaker from the US, the UK, etc., i enough for the job. Of course there are many highly qualified English speakers from the US, UK, Australia, etc., teaching here, but a few people not qualified do slip in, as we have seen evidenced before right here in ThaiVisa.

[thailiketoo]

People from the Philippines who teach English in Thailand work in Thailand because they work for CHEAP wages -- not because they can speak English correctly or are able to speak English without a debilitating accent... Philippine nationals for the most part speak POOR ENGLISH and speak English with a severe accent. Thus any Thai student in an English class conducted by a Philippine English instructor is likely to learn poor English and learn English with an accent that makes their English hardly understandable ... That's the bottom line folks - no matter how many may rationalize it ....

I was in the education contract business for a while providing English instructors to Thai industry. The Philippine teachers I employed all had degrees and 60% spoke and wrote English well. 20% were bad and 20 % were great speakers and teachers. There is a Philippine man who runs a school in Rayong that if you talked to him on the phone you would say 100% sure that he is an American. A lot of Philippine teachers in Thailand are on Facebook. Not hard to prove if anyone really wants to find the real information. The real bottom line is 8 out of 10 are good or better and a lot less expensive than Farang teachers.

Day Dreaming ... Broken English is Broken English and teaching Broken English is a sad situation

It was my business so, no I'm not day dreaming. I've been involved in 20 or so businesses who use Philippine English teachers and three different Thai school systems that use Philippine English teachers. In all I guess I have spoken to at least 200 Philippine English teachers. So you're calling me a liar but have not mentioned how you know so much about Philippine English teachers.

So, let me ask. How do you know so much about the thousands of Philippine English teachers that work in Thailand? When you call a man a liar the least you can do is back up your claim with a little factual information.

[JDGRUEN]

People from the Philippines who teach English in Thailand work in Thailand because they work for CHEAP wages -- not because they can speak English correctly or are able to speak English without a debilitating accent... Philippine nationals for the most part speak POOR ENGLISH and speak English with a severe accent. Thus any Thai student in an English class conducted by a Philippine English instructor is likely to learn poor English and learn English with an accent that makes their English hardly understandable ... That's the bottom line folks - no matter how many may rationalize it ....

I was in the education contract business for a while providing English instructors to Thai industry. The Philippine teachers I employed all had degrees and 60% spoke and wrote English well. 20% were bad and 20 % were great speakers and teachers. There is a Philippine man who runs a school in Rayong that if you talked to him on the phone you would say 100% sure that he is an American. A lot of Philippine teachers in Thailand are on Facebook. Not hard to prove if anyone really wants to find the real information. The real bottom line is 8 out of 10 are good or better and a lot less expensive than Farang teachers.

Day Dreaming ... Broken English is Broken English and teaching Broken English is a sad situation

It was my business so, no I'm not day dreaming. I've been involved in 20 or so businesses who use Philippine English teachers and three different Thai school systems that use Philippine English teachers. In all I guess I have spoken to at least 200 Philippine English teachers. So you're calling me a liar but have not mentioned how you know so much about Philippine English teachers.

So, let me ask. How do you know so much about the thousands of Philippine English teachers that work in Thailand? When you call a man a liar the least you can do is back up your claim with a little factual information.

I reiterate -- Philippine English teachers are hired in Thailand because they work for low wages .. having nothing to do with their ability to teach English or even speak proper English

[thailiketoo]

I was in the education contract business for a while providing English instructors to Thai industry. The Philippine teachers I employed all had degrees and 60% spoke and wrote English well. 20% were bad and 20 % were great speakers and teachers. There is a Philippine man who runs a school in Rayong that if you talked to him on the phone you would say 100% sure that he is an American. A lot of Philippine teachers in Thailand are on Facebook. Not hard to prove if anyone really wants to find the real information. The real bottom line is 8 out of 10 are good or better and a lot less expensive than Farang teachers.

Day Dreaming ... Broken English is Broken English and teaching Broken English is a sad situation

It was my business so, no I'm not day dreaming. I've been involved in 20 or so businesses who use Philippine English teachers and three different Thai school systems that use Philippine English teachers. In all I guess I have spoken to at least 200 Philippine English teachers. So you're calling me a liar but have not mentioned how you know so much about Philippine English teachers.

So, let me ask. How do you know so much about the thousands of Philippine English teachers that work in Thailand? When you call a man a liar the least you can do is back up your claim with a little factual information.

I reiterate -- Philippine English teachers are hired in Thailand because they work for low wages .. having nothing to do with their ability to teach English or even speak proper English

I reiterate. How do you know? Just repeating an inaccurate statement does not make it accurate.

[kikoman]

Well the United States won the Philippine's from the Spanish as a result of the Spanish American War in 1898, after the Philippine- American War 1899-1902 the Americans defeated the revolt of the people of the Philippines and made English the primary language of, the government, education and business, The US controlled the Philippines from 1898 to 1946.

So to answer your question, Why the people of the Philippines have more English speakers and teachers then Thailand, was a result of 48 years of English language was forced on the people of the Philippines as it official language!

Cheers

First of all sir it was never forced on the Filipino culture. They did have two bases there but are now down to one and Subic Bay is located outside of Angeles city.

English is there second-language because of the American influence, that is correct! I visited many schools when I was in the Philippines basically because I was a principal from the USA. They are taught English on the first grade level through the 12th grade level. They are the third largest English speaking country in the world. They have approximately 94% literacy in the Philippines.

I visited a first grade class with 51 students and you could hear a pin drop. When working for my Doctorate I also did a survey of some of the Filipino educational systems. Their curriculum is very sound and their universities are basically top notch. The number one University is located outside of Manila in Quezon City and the number two is in Dumaguete. The International Universities are totally top notch and with the core of instructors that they have it appears that they are extremely sound.

To sum up most of the questions asked here, it mainly depends on the lecturers or the instructors at the University that makes them a sound and quality-based educational system.

If Thailand had this quality of instructors I truly believe that their educational system could have possibilities, But they must change the curriculum in order to meet the accreditation requirements. Thai students can only be as good as the instructors or the leaders of that individual school. Thai students are extremely intelligent if Instructed properly with quality educators. Once again do not give total Autonomy to the owners of the school and the school must meet accreditation because the teachers are qualified but not in English. This is not the problem of the teachers but the leaders of the school.

For someone who claims to have a Doctorate degree you are extremely uniformed about Filipino as well as American history.

In 1898 the United States imposed the English language as the Official language of the Philippines replacing the Spanish language that was the official language of the Philippines for over 300 years. English became the language of Government, Education and Business under American occupation of the Philippine's from 1898 to 1946. The U.S. also attempted to curb the influence of the Catholic church like it had done in the territory gained from Mexico in the 1846-1848 War, As all of Latin America the church is guided from Italy (Vatican) the American Catholic Church is guided by the Church in Ireland.

As English was the international language of business it remain in the Philippine educational system, after Filipino Independence.

History clearly documents that English was Imposed as the Official Language, and as late as 1940 the Spanish language was still widely spoken in that country, This only came about due to the Spanish and American colonization of the Philippines for over 300 years!

Cheers

[David48]

Why are we comparing Thai vs Philipino English? Like comparing apples with oranges.

Fried Eggs with Melons ...

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[thailiketoo]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

I've been here like forever. English speakers and teachers from the Philippines; wives and food from Thailand.

Then you're in the minority of posters that can give a response worth reading. Do your "wives" know about each other?

Personally, I lived in the Philippines for a year and a half, I have a Filipino wife and daughter, and have lived in Bangkok for 6 years.

The trouble with threads like this, they generally turn into a 'willy waving' contest and become a bore.

I have noticed that women from the Philippines prefer to live and work in Thailand and like the food better here.

When I retired I thought about the Philippines but the food, guns and weird Christian sects (not Catholic) scared me away.

[thailiketoo]

Why are we comparing Thai vs Philipino English? Like comparing apples with oranges.

Fried Eggs with Melons ...

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Great post.

[Searat7]

I have Filipino friend in Bangkok who teaches English Speaking in a private school. He has taught in 5 countries and said the students here are the worst- seems like low motivation to learn which is sad

[Hardened Spanker]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

I lived in Cebu in 2011 and still have many,many friends there.The call centres are all based in a place called the IT Park in between Banilad and Ayala Mall.It's effectively a 24-hr place with all the fast food outlets open all the time for day and nightime workers plus some good nightspots like Penthouse and Sunflower.

There's also a massive,blue JP Morgan building that can be seen form the road and the lights are always burning there,apparently the starting wage there is around 12,000 pesos/month or around USD$250!

I've called my bank in the UK and spoken to a Filipino,I asked him where he was and he told me in Cebu,the IT Park.I was just down the road in Talamban!

[Hardened Spanker]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

Hmmmm. Well that explains why the Philippines is such a regional basketcase, with crime, corruption, and poverty much worse than Thailand. And it also explains why Thailand, with a population of around 30 million less, has about 40% higher GDP than the PI. Per capita GDP of Thailand is over double that of the PI. So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?

It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year!

Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!

[thailiketoo]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

Hmmmm. Well that explains why the Philippines is such a regional basketcase, with crime, corruption, and poverty much worse than Thailand. And it also explains why Thailand, with a population of around 30 million less, has about 40% higher GDP than the PI. Per capita GDP of Thailand is over double that of the PI. So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?

It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year!

Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!

If you were right and he was wrong would you expect Thais to go to the Philippines for work? Or people from the Philippines to come to Thailand for work? I just asking. Mexican people come to the US to work and Polish people come to the UK to work. If the Philippines economy was doing so well one would expect Thais and others from SEA to be flooding the Philippines looking for work. Are they?

[Hardened Spanker]

Just to clear up a few point s here,a large amount of Filipino GDP is based on the remittance of funds from abroad by around 10 million overseas foreign workers from the Philippines.Half French,half Pinoy Michel Huillier is one of the big names in this massive shadow banking industry.Just imagine the commissions from 10 million people sending money back to the Philippines week in,week out! Most Filipinos don't speak Spanish at all,I have native-speaking Latino friends that were teaching Spanish over there and they use to laugh at Pinoys saying "Yo soy España",which of course means I am Spain and not Spanish!

Having said that in Visaya all the numbers are Spanish so if you speak Spanish you'll have no problems,plus a few other words are the same like mesa,cebolla etc.I'm pretty sure that Tagalog numbers are Spanish also?

[Hardened Spanker]

Out of all of the people posting, how many have actually spent any length - longer than six months -of time there?

Accents or not, the current Thai educational system cannot compete with that of the Philippines.

One of the major sectors of employment in the Philippines is call centre work. These aren't call centres for local businesses in the most part, but huge international companies use the Philippines for their call centres due to their proficiency in English.

Hmmmm. Well that explains why the Philippines is such a regional basketcase, with crime, corruption, and poverty much worse than Thailand. And it also explains why Thailand, with a population of around 30 million less, has about 40% higher GDP than the PI. Per capita GDP of Thailand is over double that of the PI. So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?

It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year!

Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!

If you were right and he was wrong would you expect Thais to go to the Philippines for work? Or people from the Philippines to come to Thailand for work? I just asking. Mexican people come to the US to work and Polish people come to the UK to work. If the Philippines economy was doing so well one would expect Thais and others from SEA to be flooding the Philippines looking for work. Are they?

This whole thread is about Thais poor language skills and you're asking why Thais don't go anywhere to work abroad!

Seriously?

[thailiketoo]

Hmmmm. Well that explains why the Philippines is such a regional basketcase, with crime, corruption, and poverty much worse than Thailand. And it also explains why Thailand, with a population of around 30 million less, has about 40% higher GDP than the PI. Per capita GDP of Thailand is over double that of the PI. So education and English proficiency doesn't really mean much, does it?

It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year!

Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!

If you were right and he was wrong would you expect Thais to go to the Philippines for work? Or people from the Philippines to come to Thailand for work? I just asking. Mexican people come to the US to work and Polish people come to the UK to work. If the Philippines economy was doing so well one would expect Thais and others from SEA to be flooding the Philippines looking for work. Are they?

This whole thread is about Thais poor language skills and you're asking why Thais don't go anywhere to work abroad!

Seriously?

You wrote, "It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year! Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!"

I guess you did not want anyone to ask you anything about what you wrote, seriously

PS 134,000 Thais worked abroad in 2012. But not many went to the Philippines.

[pinebits]

You wrote, "It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year! Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!"

I guess you did not want anyone to ask you anything about what you wrote, seriously alt=closedeyes.gif pagespeed_url_hash=1984569320 width=20 height=20>

PS 134,000 Thais worked abroad in 2012. But not many went to the Philippines.

There's only a few foreign nationals who works in the Philippines because the government/companies will offer the position to Fipinos first whom they believe have the skills to do the job well. As for Thai to work in the Philippines? I think is a complete joke, why would a company hire Thai's if they cannot speak English well.

[thailiketoo]

You wrote, "It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year! Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!"

I guess you did not want anyone to ask you anything about what you wrote, seriously alt=closedeyes.gif pagespeed_url_hash=1984569320 width=20 height=20>

PS 134,000 Thais worked abroad in 2012. But not many went to the Philippines.

There's only a few foreign nationals who works in the Philippines because the government/companies will offer the position to Fipinos first whom they believe have the skills to do the job well. As for Thai to work in the Philippines? I think is a complete joke, why would a company hire Thai's if they cannot speak English well.

I don't think they would. Thailand has a far stronger economy than the Philippines as a result pays a lot more so the Philippine people come to Thailand to work. Thai people go to Singapore and the Middle East and countries that pay more than Thailand. For example, "ANZ Bank Said to Hire Coal Trading Team From Thailand’s PTT"

[Hardened Spanker]

It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year!

Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!

If you were right and he was wrong would you expect Thais to go to the Philippines for work? Or people from the Philippines to come to Thailand for work? I just asking. Mexican people come to the US to work and Polish people come to the UK to work. If the Philippines economy was doing so well one would expect Thais and others from SEA to be flooding the Philippines looking for work. Are they?

This whole thread is about Thais poor language skills and you're asking why Thais don't go anywhere to work abroad!

Seriously?

You wrote, "It's such a basket case that it's economy outperformed every other country in Asia,INCLUDING THAILAND,for the first 2 quarters of this year! Why do clueless,uniformed idiots insist on posting utter garbage on here,it's actually embarrassing how little they know!"

I guess you did not want anyone to ask you anything about what you wrote, seriously

PS 134,000 Thais worked abroad in 2012. But not many went to the Philippines.

I think I'll take the word of Reuters over a muppet like you,is this an act or something? :

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/29/uk-philippines-economy-gdp-idUKBRE97S04N20130829

Oh and 10,000,000 Filipinos work overseas!If you can't say anything sensible that is backed up by facts PLEASE stop making a fool of yourself!