Coss Posted June 8, 2018 Report Share Posted June 8, 2018 http://www.khaosodenglish.com/culture/net/2018/06/08/heres-the-story-behind-the-snoozing-mps-that-pissed-off-prayuth/ I don't understand why they expect to be taken seriously whilst wearing pastels. What is this? a floral display? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drogon Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 Nice article Coss Not to excuse their behavior but the other day my company's CIO organized a big meeting (2h longs) and.....I fell asleep and was not the only one to do so. More seriously, between wild parties, embezzling money, visiting mia nois and so on....at their old age they will need to recharge their batteries nope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted June 9, 2018 Report Share Posted June 9, 2018 A rubber stamp doesn't need to be alert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mekong Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 Not to excuse their behavior but the other day my company's CIO organized a big meeting (2h longs) and.....I fell asleep and was not the only one to do so. Try a 4 hour meeting every week in a language I cannot speak, I turn up with my pillow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 10, 2018 Report Share Posted June 10, 2018 We were lucky at Thammasat. The Farangs were excused from most department meetings, since if we were there, the Thais would have to conduct them in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
passingthru69 Posted June 11, 2018 Report Share Posted June 11, 2018 Yes but did they give you the memo about any changes that were made in the meetings that effected you, or did you find out about the changes the hard way... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 The department head would have a short meeting with the furriners and tell us anything which applied to us. Actually, the younger Thais all had degrees from the U.S., U.K, Canada, or Oz and could speak very fluent English. It was mainly the older Thai lecturers who were worried about their English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 Just had a visit today from immigration police. Was all co-ordinated and in line with expectation. They called yesterday to arrange a convenient time. 2 men and 1 woman, all exceptionally polite and well mannered, of course. Also exceptional English, at least conversationally, almost no hint of the Thinglish that is so prevalent. One of the guys explained that he actually spoke several languages English, German, Russian and, I thought rather oddly, Afrikaans. Not that I could test him but his English was pretty much spot on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 You're on a marriage visa? p.s. English and German are taught at many universities, but Russian is only at Thammasat. (Only a handful of students studied it even there, all with the aim of working in the tourism trade). But Afrikaans? I've never even heard of Dutch being taught here. Maybe the guy was the son of diplomats. I once taught a gal who's aunt had been with the Thai embassy in Canberra. The gal had lived there for years, and spoke fluent English with a Strine accent! :-o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted June 12, 2018 Report Share Posted June 12, 2018 You're on a marriage visa? I'm on a non immigrant O-A visa with an extension of stay based on "Take care family", their words. p.s. English and German are taught at many universities, but Russian is only at Thammasat. (Only a handful of students studied it even there, all with the aim of working in the tourism trade). But Afrikaans? I've never even heard of Dutch being taught here. Maybe the guy was the son of diplomats. I once taught a gal who's aunt had been with the Thai embassy in Canberra. The gal had lived there for years, and spoke fluent English with a Strine accent! :-o We didn't get into his background but I guess it's possible. The other two spoke good English as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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