MangoZeen

Different languages have many words for the same thing.
Eskimos supposedly have 15 words for snow.
You can read them on this URL
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html
The travel movie AMAZING THAILAND claims the Thais have 13 words for smile. This statement falls into the realm of urban legend, although the Thais have a smile for every occasion.
Happy? Smile. Sad? Smile. Crash […]

This addition has nothing to do with sex.
As a child my moother tried to improve my speech by having me say ‘toy boat’ three times fast.
Impossible with a stutter.
Thais utilize the same practice. I guess all languages do. Here’s a sampling from www.2bankgok.com
1.) Kluai tanee plai wee hiaw, hew wee pai hew wee ma; lua […]

I learned Thai from my various girlfriends using an old colonial technique known as the ’sleeping dictionary’ or suea non gin poot-ha-na-noo-grom approach. I read 3-4 words a day from the regular dictionary to increase my vocabulary. The only problem was my Boston accent, so I sometimes confuse Thais with my speaking their language.

My wife […]

I’ve lived in several foreign countries.

Germany, France, Mexico, Indonesia, and Thailand.
You can usually find someone to speak English albeit their version of the language and in order to be understood you dumbize your speech. After a few months you end up sounding like ET after drinking too many beers. “Me want go home.”
Thais tend to […]

Like most farangs I had a hard time learning Thai. It has taken years and only those Thais who know me well can decipher what I’m trying to say with a Bostonian accent.

Conversely most of what is said to me is too fast for my ears to catch the meaning, but one day I was […]