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Originally Posted by peelieorion
The articles is fair enough but we shouldn't make excuses for Thais.
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Isn't it valuable to understand or start from the learner's ability and move forward from there? I don't see the article as offering excuses, rather showing the Thai language in some aspects is cleaner than the muddy mess of English. With a little imagination, you could create at least two years' worth of grammar lessons based on the linguistic observations of the article. Then again, you'd be boring the students shitless with a grammar-only approach to learning English.