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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick
    My Italics and underline :

    Words fail me.

    Why on earth would you make your child read Thai Rath to learn Thai??

    Did you make her read the Sun to learn English??

    Patrick
    I am a qualified/experienced English teacher. If I was teaching a Thai English and was using a newspaper, I would use the Sun rather than the Telegraph. Simpler writing, more interesting, scandalous stories.

    Clearly, my method worked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by can123 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick
    My Italics and underline :

    Words fail me.

    Why on earth would you make your child read Thai Rath to learn Thai??

    Did you make her read the Sun to learn English??

    Patrick
    I am a qualified/experienced English teacher. If I was teaching a Thai English and was using a newspaper, I would use the Sun rather than the Telegraph. Simpler writing, more interesting, scandalous stories.

    Clearly, my method worked.
    Oh - you're a "qualified" English teacher, my apologies!

    I suppose your Thai wife also lets your daughter watch Thai "nam nao" Soap Operas so she "learns" Thai?

    I'm British, my wife is Thai and our daughter, now 28, was not allowed to watch such rubbish and under no circumstances read the equivalent of Thai "Sun" type newspapers.

    She is now totally Bi-lingual, graduated from LSE (London School of Economics) and is already earning a 6 figure (UK Pounds) Salary in London.

    Which method do you think works best?

    Patrick

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    Pretty sure if he is studying at university then he will be okay and can avoid the draft.
    University students are exempted from the draft, deferred. After graduation, they can volunteer for a six month program.

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    Quote Originally Posted by can123 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by astasinim
    Have you seen the general make up of the British army? I have, which is part of the reason I left.
    Yes, I have, and I clearly understand why you felt that you did not fit in there.
    As I thought, just another blowhard. Kindly take yourself and your superiority complex out of the family section, and exercise it in the more tolerated part of the forum.

    Thanks

    Quote Originally Posted by klong toey View Post
    Pretty sure if he is studying at university then he will be okay and can avoid the draft.
    University students are exempted from the draft, deferred. After graduation, they can volunteer for a six month program.
    Thanks for bringing it back on track KT. I do hope he chooses a career that requires a degree, and will try to steer him in that direction, but ultimately its his choice. All good information though, thanks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by klong toey
    Pretty sure if he is studying at university then he will be okay and can avoid the draft.
    Just read on the other channel that with a degree you still have to serve 6 months instead of the 2 Years. the thread was called Military service how avoid. Some said on there that you can bribe your way out of it if done early enough and you know the right people, a couple of others mentioned the guys kid should become a ladyboy. It got a bit ugly. Thought I'd pre-warn you before giving you the link Astas.
    I still feel it's the best thing for your son to have Thai nationality to afford him the choice of homeowning or/and retiring one day in Thailand, especially with the way the UK is going pricewise.
    Good Luck

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    Thanks. I`ll pop in and have a look.

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    I would like also to know, how my son could dodge the MS, any fekker that thinks its a good thing needs there head tested.

    Just hope my son doesn't have different ideas.

    reading the link just about says it all.

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    Some real crackpots over there. Sod it, I doubt we`ll go ahead and arrange his citizenship. I was only thinking that maybe, just maybe Thailand might become a decent country in the future, and citizenship for my boy would be an advantage for him. I guess if he`s got the skills, any country will have him anyway.

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    Asia is up and coming, decent is any ones guess, hopefully it will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by astasinim
    I doubt we`ll go ahead and arrange his citizenship.
    Hopefully he'll have the sense to take it up once he's old enough.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick
    Why on earth would you make your child read Thai Rath to learn Thai??
    Because he's a fucking retard as every post of his screams out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yasojack
    Asia is up and coming
    But most of it seems to be up and coming at Thailand's expense. Thailand is losing out to all the up and coming countries and appears to be growing at a much slower rate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    But most of it seems to be up and coming at Thailand's expense. Thailand is losing out to all the up and coming countries and appears to be growing at a much slower rate.
    Got it in one.

    I think with all this political turmoil over the past however many years, Thailand is paying the price now.

    I think they're gonna be in for a huge shock when ASEAN gets going.

    The thread on Thai travel agents worried about competition amused me. It hadn't occurred to them to perhaps change their attitude and provide better service.

    Lazy fcuks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick
    Why on earth would you make your child read Thai Rath to learn Thai??
    Because he's a fucking retard as every post of his screams out.
    Are you able to read Thai Rath ? I doubt it. The paper was available on the Internet, had interesting stories and, thanks to it, she is able to speak, read and write Thai. The dopey farangs allow their Thai kids to lose their native languages, the more intelligent encourage them to keep them.

    The guy who worries about a boy not being able to speak Thai has only himself to blame. No retards in my family.
    Why can't I make new posts?

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    Here's my plan fwiw, and at thhe end of the day, it's the kid's choice what they do with their lives.

    I have a 1 yo daughter born in Thailand, and we plan on one more soon. When our first kid reaches an age where she needs to start serious education, maybe 5-7 years old, we move to Australia for free world class education. Already is a dual citizen with two passports.

    The way I figure it, she will have a huge edge over here after getting an Aussie education from primary through to tertiary, whilst maintaining Thai nationality and literacy. Then she can unleash on Thai society with full rights as a Thai citizen. Rich Thais would (and do) pay a shitload to put their kids in this kind of position.

    It certainly can't hurt anyway.

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    Your plan is fine but you must work hard, and risk making yourself unpopular, to ensure that the Thai language skills are not lost. My daughter didn't like being made to read a Thai newspaper every day at the time. Now she realises that we did the right thing. She's very proud of the fact that she is fluent in three languages and is a more confident young lady as a consequence.

    We are hoping that she will qualify as a nurse in two years time. Given the poor way in which nurses in Thailand are rewarded for their efforts, it is very unlikely that she will ever work there. Nevertheless, her language skills are with her for the rest of her life and are invaluable in maintaining ties with Thai family and friends.

    She also appreciates the advantages she has over most of her contemporaries by having experienced such a wide variety of cultures over a relatively short life.

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    I have some thai friends,who have lived in london for over 30 years. They have two sons,who they got thai passports for, after the age of 21. The reason they wanted their sons to have thai passports,is because they own a lot of property in thailand.
    Getting the passports was easy,but they had to pay something,to get the boys out of national service.....this happened last year.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 9999
    move to Australia for free world class education.
    Just spat coffee over my keyboard!

    Anyway, your joking apart, there are many fine primary schools in Thailand that can compete with any state school in the West. It's the secondary education where Thailand falls to pieces.

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    Quote Originally Posted by can123
    Your plan is fine but you must work hard, and risk making yourself unpopular, to ensure that the Thai language skills are not lost. My daughter didn't like being made to read a Thai newspaper every day at the time. Now she realises that we did the right thing. She's very proud of the fact that she is fluent in three languages and is a more confident young lady as a consequence.
    Good on you for keeping up her language sure she appreciates it now. We want her to talk Thai with her grandparents and relatives in Thailand as often as possible. And also come back and visit at least once a year. Keeping her options open is the most important thing imo.

    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    Anyway, your joking apart, there are many fine primary schools in Thailand that can compete with any state school in the West. It's the secondary education where Thailand falls to pieces.
    Maybe the case in blighty where they still live in the past and you get a crap education unless your aristocratic parents send you to preppy school.

    There's nothing, not even the best private schools in BKK, that can compare with the free education my kids will get in Canberra. When talking about the west, there are varying levels of education. For example, what you say is true for the US (if you're not rich).

    If I could choose I would choose Finland to educate my children, but I can't. I certainly would not choose UK or USA, but the public system particularly in Canberra, Australia, is world class. I'm fortunate enough to have this option for my kids, so WTF would I be so irresponsible to have them educated in foking Thailand, when there are better, cheaper options.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog
    there are many fine primary schools in Thailand that can compete with any state school in the West. It's the secondary education where Thailand falls to pieces.
    I agree with that!

    trouble is, if you put your kid through primary in Thailand then move to your home country for secondary, there may be serious difficulties in adapting to a different system

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    ^ Oh yes that's the other key point I forgot to raise (not the part about Thai primary education being on par with the west).

    We all know how fucked up the Thai education system is and to say that this only kicks into gear in secondary school is absurd.

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    no. I don't know, but I have heard many different views

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