Any advice on getting a thai private tutor?

best way to learn is to get yourself a girlfriend.

in addition to any of the above.

I always thought it was kap kap kap?! Alec been teaching me wrong.

lol no, it's actually khop khun krap , you don't have to say the "krap" part thats just being more polite.

lol

It actually should be khaawp khun khrap anyway, the first word is a long vowel not a short one! (yeh I know, nits ITT etc etc.)

******ed english transliterations itt imo

Thai lessons about the use of "Kap" at 3am in Karaoke might not be the best way to learn Thai.

pretty sure I had a couple of those lessons when I visited CM in January.

well, i guess that means Finnish is good for something, outside of talking with the 16 people in finland?

FYP

จูหาอีส์เอนิด! imo

that i am

you can't use จ though, remember the finn J's

did someone said something about being a nit ?

I forget

ha ha yeh I knew I got that wrong, along with every single tone mark needed.

interesting article about "owning property" in thailand if anyone is interested

http://www.escapefromamerica.com/201...u-dont-own-me/

that was interesting ty

Ok, few questions. I'm looking at living abroad, Thailand is on my list of interests.


1- I hear decent apartments are like, $150 a month. Is this true?
2- How hard would it be for a 19 year old guy to get an apartment there, after walking off a plane?
3- How safe is it there?
4- Anyone know the laws on firearms by chance?
5- How would I cash pokerstars checks there? I just checked, and I can't cash out in Baht.....

That's some pretty dumb reasoning. In America you don't own the property because you are paying off the bank but in Thailand they don't finance so you have to buy it all at once and even though its a 30yr+30yr deed you actually own it instead of the bank. Completely ignoring the fact that if you pay cash in the US you own it w/out a time allotment.

Location: Denton, Tx

Forget this article. It's some bitter expat painting a horrible picture of US and rosy picture of Thailand.

The fact of the matter is that in Thailand you can't own land. For most foreigners, it's their Thai wife who actually owns the house, or is majority shareholder of the corporation. There are some ways to get around some of these things and he mentions them (30 year leases, corporations, etc). But 30 year lease is for 30 years only, and the other ways may cease to be acceptable to Thai authorities when they arbitrarily decide so. Just look at the recent foreign bar ownership crackdown in Pattaya...

The big problem is that as Thailand develops, so do their rules and enforcement of rules. Thais believe land ownership to be very important and they are unlikely to just let foreigners own land anytime soon. As Thailand develops the rules become more stringent and so will enforcement. For an example of this, you can look at teaching requirements and how things have changed in the last 15 years in terms of work permits, degree requirements, documentation checks, selection process, etc... Or even daily life, look at traffic rules and acceptance and how drastically things have changed in the last 10 years... So while you may currently 'sort of' create a paper trail that gives you control of land, you never know when a Pattaya-like crack downs start coming...

I looked into it... I would love to buy some ocean front land around Cha-am or maybe Samui. I wouldn't feel comfortable with buying anything aside a condo... Only buy what you can easily walk away from...

If you want good info, read up on it at thaivisa.com

Look at the positive side, this is a lot better than knowing a bunch of rich Thais who keep wanting to go away on weekends and stay in $300/night hotels and eat and drink at expensive places where you can drop some serious money...

Skin color is very important in Thailand. It is closely tied to your image and class. Just look at the amount of skin whitening products... The black guy was telling the truth when he said it's very hard to find a job in Thailand for him... Thais generally don't want to hire black people and definitely not get taught by black people. Less selective regional schools are his best chance to get hired.

yikes thailand really doesn't want any tourists eh im getting 30: 1 on the exchange, and in the last few days they jacked up the flights again so now the cheapest is like 1300-1400$ where it was 900$ 2 weeks ago.What a joke

Sorry, I hate to just jump into this thread and ask a relatively vague question w/o reading back 10 pages or so.......but I've been living in Manila for about 1 year and am going home to the US pretty soon and I was considering traveling to Bangkok for a few days this month.

Can someone tell me how dangerous it is there and how frequent mass protests are? The red-shirts aren't antagonist towards foreigners right? Are they happening in the business district or in the poorer areas of Bangkok? I am asking because if I go, I want to see the red-shirts and I want to experience the protests from a safe distance. I know very little about the situation outside of what comes on CNN/BBC in 2 minute clips, and honestly I don't really care about the political situation in Thailand, I just want to experience a little chaos.

try china airlines

yeah idk he totally ignores the fact that you actually can drop down 200k cash and pick up a decent home in a vast array of locations in the US.

its almost as if he wrote this article with the assumption that nobody could ever have enough money to do this which makes me lol and also kinda annoyed that i read the whole thing hoping to get to the rando stipulation i hadn't heard of that doesn't allow him/some to outright buy a home.. but no, it seems he's just an idiot