So I'm having a quiet beer at my local this evening and the TV plays the six o'clock anthem followed by 60 seconds of English...
We have a fashion show with two girls and the obligatory katoey and their English lesson is about clothes. Three items: coat, scarf & raincoat...
FMD...it's prime time TV and they are teaching millions of watching Thai 'raincoat'...
I've been here for a good decade and I have NEVER seen a Thai wearing a 'raincoat'...
why don't they understand that language should be on a 'need-to-know' basis...why teach them vocab that they will never learn...
I ranted to my wife and she just told me 'why are you so serious about this story'...changed her tune quickly when I feigned a phone call to the TV channel...
This is the reason Thailand lags behind the rest of SE Asia in the development of their English-language skills...