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Originally Posted by peelieorion
The articles is fair enough but we shouldn't make excuses for Thais. You only learn from doing and producing. Lets get the country speaking bad English first before we refine it.
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P. you're right about the reading issue. Until that is conquered, only minimal, accidental, or rote learning will occur.
I think the OP was a fairly comprehensive guide to 'bad English' based on Thai (or for that matter, nearly any other Asian) language. And most of those listed can be solved with an extensive use of phonics and reading. The only glaring omission was a reference to a supposed genetic link to oral musclature that produces the r-l-s-w-errors.
Because equivalent pronunciations of those letters exist in L1, a lot of the trouble, especially with combinations, is pure unexcusable laziness.
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Originally Posted by Cyrille
A few years ago I had a colleague who groaned at considerable volume 'How come these morons can't do something as simple as tell the time'
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He needs to see my M1 daughter's lesson on "How to Tell the Clock." Other than "I don't like your face", or "STFU (to the alarm clock)" I haven't been able to answer this Thai English lesson.