Thread: Tricks to play on Thais

he's full of shit.

Oh sorry, I mean 'a masterful baiter of forum misfits. In his latest guise he brilliantly takes aim at yet more people who can do something he can't and are almost certainly happier than he is.'

I think the World is playing a trick on him.

Originally Posted by toddaniels

If you, a foreigner, learned thai as an adult, after 2 or 3 sentences EVERY thai you talk to knows you're not a born, bred, rice-fed native speaker. Whether they say it to you or not. These people <- that would be the thais, are excellent at accent identification.

Would agree 100% Todz. I know a shitload of Foreigners who can read/write/speak Thai but there's only ONE of them who makes Thai's go wide-eyed over his language skills the first time they hear him talk. He's Dutch, but was born here (Expat parents) and spent the first 16 years of his life in Thailand.

Give Somchai Smeggums a phone call for a chat about Thai rock bandz Todd. It's always nice to chat to fellow minded people - fully fluent and interested in the same music scene.

Originally Posted by Headworx

I know a shitload of Foreigners who can read/write/speak Thai but there's only ONE of them who makes Thais go wide-eyed over his language skills the first time they hear him talk.

Well now there is a second. For smeg has said that it is so.

And all achieved in Bayswater, Japan, Taiwan and Brazil. Remarkable.

I got it!! Smegs was paying for phone lessons through top agencies and the end all
and be all of Thai linguistics professors all throughout his jet-setting life.


No wait,...scratch that.

I just read he was down soi nana with noi and pat...

Originally Posted by toddaniels

Originally Posted by Immigrunt

^^ Me? Pretty much fluent now, and I'm one of the few that's perfected the tones and accent. People on the phone have no idea i'm not Thai until I tell them.

I'm calling B/S on your self-assessment of your thai language skills

If you, a foreigner, learned thai as an adult, after 2 or 3 sentences EVERY thai you talk to knows you're not a born, bred, rice-fed native speaker. Whether they say it to you or not. These people <- that would be the thais, are excellent at accent identification.

I've found as a general rule foreign thai speakers overestimate their actual thai ability by about 1000%. I'd bet you're far more "effluent" than fluent <- what ever the f*ck that term means.

Fluent is an imaginary place in your mind that gets in the way with you learning thai. I've met hundreds and hundreds of good competent proficient foreign speakers 'o thai, yet I've never met one I felt was fluent in the language.

That you take the piss outta them when they're tryin' to interact with you in engrish is un-redeeming.

I wish I knew how to block you in real life..

When you've stopped crying about real life, watch an Adam Bradshaw video. He's been learning it for less time than I have. Some people are gifted at languages. He is. I am. Get over yourself if you're not. Your generalisations are hilarious.

Oh, and I know Thais that have lived in England for several years who are fluent and have local accents. They're unusual though.

You could practice your Thai typing skills by typing that in Thai and wowing everybody in the process.

Originally Posted by Immigrunt

I know Thais that have lived in England for several years who are fluent and have local accents. They're unusual though.

Not as 'unusual' as they'd be if they'd learned it in Bangkok from watching East Enders, which is the equivalent of what you are claiming to have done.

No, that is a long leap from 'unusual'...straight into 'full of shit'.

Originally Posted by Auroria

You could practice your Thai typing skills by typing that in Thai and wowing everybody in the process.

Why prove anything to miserable twats on a forum? They'll only start crying about my Mrs having written it.

Hey expert Todd, what percentage would you assess Yaya's fluency as being?

Originally Posted by Immigrunt

Why prove anything to miserable twats on a forum? They'll only start crying about my Mrs having written it.

Where did you acquire your new wife, did you register the marriage at the amphur office?

There are rare adults who can learn to impersonate the voice of almost any celebrity. Becoming fluent in Thai requires something similar, observing (in my case thousands of hours of lakorn) and mimicking.

I know an American that's lived here for 30 years and met him to play pool last week. His vocab is good but he speaks Thai with an almost monotone US accent. He thinks he's good though, so I understand your rant Todd.

If not for the creepy stalkers I'd upload a video of me being invited on stage by Pup, the lead singer of Potato, who is a friend of my Mrs, to sing a few lines (and receive an amazing response from the fans) at a small gig in Ubon last year.

Originally Posted by Immigrunt

invited on stage by Pup, the lead singer of Potato, who is a friend of my Mrs, to sing a few lines (and receive an amazing response from the fans) at a small gig in Ubon last year.

Just a quick question, if I may.

Do you actually believe that happened?

I'm just asking, because you might not be aware, their facebook page uploads a separate photo album for every concert they play, and they haven't played in Ubon since 2015 at a Central Festival.

Of course you may still believe that it happened, hence my question.

^ Private gig. Invite only. Smeg's married to a minor member of the Thai royal family so obviously that, and his work as a major contributor to the The Royal Institute Dictionary, means that he's the guy that everyone wants at these events. Honestly, if you look at HiSo Party, it's hard to find events that he's not at.

Originally Posted by Passing Through

^ Private gig. Invite only

Those all have their own photo albums too.



Some nice stage pics of their concerts uploaded.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/potatoba...os/?tab=albums

The last time they were in Ubon was April 2015.



Good song by the way.

อุบลราชธานี is Ubon Ratchathani, for those that are illiterate.

You're wrong as usual, stalker

Oh right.

What bar was it?

The last bar they played in Ubon was U Bar (quite a good place, there are other U-Bars in cities around Isan) in 2014.

Smeggums caught out again.


The death threats will come soon.

Originally Posted by Auroria

The last bar they played in Ubon was U Bar (quite a good place, there are other U-Bars in cities around Isan) in 2014.

And you'd know that because?

Originally Posted by Immigrunt

You're wrong as usual, stalker

Still stalking Ant, smeg?

Originally Posted by Immigrunt

Originally Posted by Auroria

The last bar they played in Ubon was U Bar (quite a good place, there are other U-Bars in cities around Isan) in 2014.

And you'd know that because?

Because they document all their concerts (small and large) online within a social media database.