http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog Ben's Personal Experiences Studying Thai Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:36:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Those of you who can speak Thai will know where I'm going with t้his one. [caption id="attachment_121" align="alignright" width="150" caption="ตัวเงินตัวทอง"][/caption] Swearing in Thai is not something I would recommend and probably wouldn't normally include here. However, I've been asked twice recently to explain why a Thai person wouldn't translate (or even say) ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=135 The Bureau of Education Testing has released a document ประกาศรายชื่อ เลขที่นั่งสอบ และห้องสอบในการสอบวัดระดับความสามารถในการใช้ภาษาไทย (Competency Test) สำหรับชาวต่างประเทศ with details of the seat numbers and room numbers for all the applicants. There will be 8 rooms each with 30 people in (a slight improvement over the one room last year). In the ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=100 Sorry it's been a while. I've unfortunately been a little busy at work and not as busy studying as I would have liked. The good news is I've registered for the new competency test. The webpage http://bet.obec.go.th/competency/applicants/apply appears to still be open, but I was under the impression that registration was ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=92 So here is the homework assignment I handed in last week (lesson details to follow shortly), I was happier with this than I was my previous one, although my teacher did say that it was missing a clear introduction. Still, stylistic errors I can deal with. ความเชื่อของผม พ่อแม่ของผมไม่เคร่งศาสนาเหมือนคนอังกฤษหลายคน แต่ถ้าใครถามแม่ของผมว่า “คุณนับถือศาสนาอะไร” แม่อาจจะพูดว่า นับถือสาศนาคริสต์ ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=88 Sorry for the delay again, but I've been busy at work. I've got some time off now so you'll see a few updates over the next couple of days. In my lesson two weeks ago we started by continuing with the module old book. I suggested the chapter on Buddhism in ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=84 After talking about Bangkok during last week's lesson my teacher gave me the title คนที่อยู่กรุงเทพ "People That Live in Bangkok" to write about. I handed it in at the start of Friday's lesson and here it is, after corrections. I wasn't particularly happy with this one, not so much incorrect, ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=68 Sorry for the delay in updating but last week was a busy week at work so you're getting a double dose this week. My third lesson (12th of August) was fairly straightforward; after handing in my homework (ชาวนา) and correcting that we continued through the school's module 5 book. We read ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=62 As you can see, I've been busy. Today was Mothers' Day วันแม่ in Thailand, so I was off work. As my teacher will be leaving Bangkok for a few days on Thursday we decided to use today as a study day. Consequently, I had to do this before going to ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=46 Yesterday I had the second private lesson towards the new Thai competency test. First, I handed in my homework assignment and my teacher corrected it. Some of it sounded a little bit unnatural so was reworded, but nothing major. We then, as we had previously decided, started going through the old ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=39 Here is my first homework assignment from last week (after being corrected slightly). I had my second lesson today which I will add more about in the next couple of days. The assignment is titled gaan rian paa-saa tai kong pom , basically “my (experiences) learning Thai”. If you can’t ... http://www.thailanguagelinks.com/myblog/?p=28