I am about to enroll in a 2 year program and one of the top 3 schools in Thailand for finance. I have been told even people outside of Thai language schools are being tested for Thai and declined if they don't pass.

I have lived in Thailand now for 5 years and can get by verbally but cannot read most.

My question is will I be tested in Thai even though what I'm studying had nothing to do with it?

You would not be tested if your are not studying Thai. Just a nonsense rumor.

if the course is in Thai then I can see why they might want too

I was studying Japanese and was asked by Ministry of Education to come for a Thai test interview.

I was studying Japanese and was asked by Ministry of Education to come for a Thai test interview.

again I am puzzled by this

If you are in the UK undertaking a Japanese language course then you either have a tutor that is English and speaks Japanese well enough to teach it or the other way round.

I would have thought the same applies in Thailand replacing "English" in the above with "Thai" or you may have a Thai tutor that speaks English Thai and Japanese and if you don't speak Thai then it all gets very complicated and probably a burden for any Thai people in the class, surely the correct place to learn Japanese is in the UK or Japan

I was studying Japanese and was asked by Ministry of Education to come for a Thai test interview.

again I am puzzled by this

If you are in the UK undertaking a Japanese language course then you either have a tutor that is English and speaks Japanese well enough to teach it or the other way round.

I would have thought the same applies in Thailand replacing "English" in the above with "Thai" or you may have a Thai tutor that speaks English Thai and Japanese and if you don't speak Thai then it all gets very complicated and probably a burden for any Thai people in the class, surely the correct place to learn Japanese is in the UK or Japan

Apology to the forum for being off topic, but I did not start it.

I'm French and I just like Japanese language I have been studying Japanese for 7 to 9 years on and off now, namely in Japan, UK,France, Taiwan and Thailand.

First of, there are no Thai people teaching Japanese, in fact that would be ridiculous given the general poor level of Japanese among Thai and the numerous Japanese people here available to teach.

I lived in Japan but the best Japanese teaching I received and the most progresses I made so far has been in Taiwan, although my Chinese was really bad I had no problem learning in Taiwan, but the teachers were excellent.

So no, the correct place is not the host country to take language lessons, good teachers are TRAINED to deal with multilingual students, that is part of their job.

Not in Thailand obviously because they don't know what teacher training mean here,