Sure, the people in the main tourist places speak pretty good English nowadays, but it’s still a good idea to learn some of the most useful Thai words / phrases if you travel through Thailand on your own – to bargain with a market vendor or tuk tuk driver, to ask for the directions to …
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Sooner or later during your time in Thailand, you will sit in a bar talking to a sexy Thai lady. Yeah, that sounds pretty blunt, but that’s just how it is – while everyone likes to relax on beautiful beaches, cruise along scenic roads with the motorbike or do other tourist stuff, as a guy you also …
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Let’s face it one of the biggest phenomenons in Thailand is that the majority of foreigners living here permanently are not proficient with the Thai language. While in most other countries expats would learn the local language and make it a priority for themselves as to understand the local culture and to get integrated into …
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You probably know that my Thai is quite alright by now, but then when I’m with a group of Isaan people it’s always somehow frustrating to hear them switch speaking in their local Isaan dialect and I don’t get what they say. As a consequence, I have recently started to obtain some useful Isaan vocabulary to …
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I don’t want to take you the incentives to learn Thai, but like so many other languages in the world Thai is no exception and adopts more and more English words to its spoken and written language. In fact there are much more than just 50 words, but let’s start with some of the most …
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