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Originally Posted by Boonmee
in my experience, for Thais to misconstrue what someone is saying to them, so that many conversations involve phrases like "You mean like this?", "In what way?", etc. ie questions which lead to a narrowing-down of the subject under discussion.
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Sometimes the GF will repeat literally everything someone says in a business transaction, and get a second confirmation. Those conversations are literally twice as long as they should be, if not more, is my annoyed feeling much of the time. But in the light of what you're saying she's just being careful and conscientious. According to this, her endless confirmations are actually appropriate. Nice one.
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Originally Posted by stfranalum
maybe we (or someone!) should categorize it and break it down into teachable patterns. eg: groups of problems which can be addressed by a teacher. i for one would be interested in seeing the larger, macro issues at play here. and if i have time, i'll try to tackle grouping these.
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I have a pronunciation guide from the Andrew Biggs school that addresses a lot of this specifically - being bilingual himself, seems like he was able to break all this down quote nicely (or he read the same book
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