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Old 16th February 2008, 18:47   #21 (permalink)
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Re: How Thai interfers with learning English

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Originally Posted by Guy Mandude
I've seen English-Thai dictionaries and they ARE more than 10 pages thick.
I was referring to the active vocabulary used by many thais, obviously.

For sure there are plenty of people in our home countries with limited vocabularies, but in Thailand the limits seem to apply across a much broader cross section of society.

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Originally Posted by Guy Mandude
Not sure there is a Thai word for "inculcate" though Cyr.
I just asked my wife.

The closest she could come up with was obron which simply means 'to repeat something again and again in the hope that it will be understood'

Speaks volumes, really.

Last edited by Cyrille; 16th February 2008 at 19:01. Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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