5 Mistakes Foreigners Make Living in Thailand 

Try. If cant try then dont move there. I have a horrible memory so opt for english countries to visit.

Does "Kor Tord Krap" mean "cut the crap"? :)

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Absolutely.

But what if the Thai people are mean to someone for no reason other than being racist and prejudice.

When someone speaks Thai, the country appears to be completely different! Best advice ever! Too bad Forrest is speech impaired, and spends a lot of his time conversing with fellow farangs in a bar. Contrary to popular opinion, beer does not make you smarter! Forrest doesn’t know what he doesn’t know. Is it true “ignorance is bliss?”

and it make it more complicated, you have a mix of Chinese, Burma and other behaviors too. Also, feng shui rules seem unreal at times.

Compared to the Philipps... 1. Most Speak and understand english, Unless they don't want to deal with you. 2.They Have None! Place is more of a Garbage Dump than what you think it is.. 3. Maybe about the same but will try to Scam you while doing so to get it "Done Faster"... 4. None Unless you know the Language and they know you from being a regular and seeing you all the time. 5. There is NONE! Don't even bother to wash their hands after Cleaning themselves after a shit with them or anything else nasty they use them for... And/Or depends on how well you know the cook... They actually ReCook Food from the Garbage that/where there is Literal Shit next to it or even On it... Or Piss poring onto it from the Cup they Pissed in..

thank you

Je wrong land Ami go home jou newer can learn it maybe Tagalog bahasa Indonesia but not the fuck chines Thai japanis Korean canot

Paying more hahaaaaaaa me not many thime happens but I call the police and the stop it haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Not jou be rude jou stand on the bathmoney jou burn the money jou take drug there.my adwise just doit know

It's also the main reason many problems never get fixed.

I disagree. I've lived here 10 years and I speak Thai. Thais aren't nice - they are trained. Thailand has always been an unfree authoritarian country. Their only freedom is a smile. Americans would NEVER put up with the sh** that Thais have to endure. In the USA, we complain about Politically Correctness and not being able to use pronouns because it's taboo to offend marginalized people. Well, Thailand is worse! lol However, Westerners don't speak the language, they don't know the culture, and they don't know the forced hospitality they get isn't voluntary. This is the reason why Thai women want to marry white guys and get the hell out of the country ASAP. As Westerners, we don't experience this until we stay in the country for a long time. What I love about the USA is that at least we have hope because we have democracy. In Thailand, their Military Dictatorship just stole the election away from Thai voters... again. The only good thing about Thailand is that it's cheap and that it has a BTS. If the USA was cheap, none of us would be here. I find it interesting that Americans complain about "big government" and "biden taking away my rights!" but then they move to a military dictatorship where rent is only $100/mo.

Okey, but way to simple to put it this way. Also very dangerous trying to generalize "People are just nice here". Cultural thing way more compliceted, I guess sometimes it will take even way more than six years here for a lot of foreigneirs.....

I think it is even at the low level/conversation level too. A few years ago, I looked at a property contract and it had all the monetary details with 'bath' instead of 'baht'. It looked like a typo and said so. Instead of anyone correcting me, it was simply not discussed, and the final contract had 'bath'. I thought it was odd. Only later, did I discover that 'bath' is the correct usage. I would rather been corrected at the meeting, but I guess that is not the Thai way.

@@MyBelch Absolutely agree 110%. Sweep it under the rug and then complain about it after...The typical Thai way.

I hope it's humor when he says those things

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It's 100% about face. Thai people will even tell you this from their own mouth. The concept is taught very early on in schools, from parents, and peers. It can be a very dangerous aspect of living in Thailand if one is bent on verbally confronting people.

​@@hagakuruHaving called SE Asia home for 31 years, mostly here in HK but also with stints in Japan and Malaysia - you're completely correct.

If you are hell bent on verbally confronting people, you will have issues anywhere you go. I asked my wife to explain the concept of face to me, she really didn't know what to say...She is Thai by the way. I really want to know on what planet or what country is being confrontational ok?@@hagakuru

No excuse for yelling at anyone! Thailand is about the chill with no disrespect.

In Thailand is important to learn Thai Language, you will find great difference between foreigner can and cannot speak simple Thai. In Thailand we do not not try to do thing fast, at outskirt, we learn to only do "one" thing a day and stay & rest well.

Can share the contacts of the Singaporean uncles ?

great presentation

It is a taste inhansing salt also known as sodium or natrium salt in some countries they buy at pharmacy and mix with red chili powder and/or minced shrimp paste. You can make your own mix regular salt or preservative called sodium salt with red chili powder and just a bit anchovies - mix it all together and there you have it. PS: they wouldnt tell the rec anybody because some people freak out when find out its pure sodium.

Wat thaifood weeeeeeeee mutch Beter austrian fooood to many chillis

Right... If you don't know about playing the stuffed envelope game, probably won't get too far over there.

คุณควรเรียนภาษาไทยถ้าคุณอาศัยอยู่ในประเทศไทย Just because you dont need to learn it to enjoy life in Thailand, doesn't mean you're not missing out. Yes many people want to practice but those are the people you notice, the Thai people hanging out with other Thai people speaking Thai are all around you but because you never are a part of that because you don't speak Thai and it would be very hard to include you if not everyone can communicate with you. The strongest argument against learning Thai is wether or not it is the best use of 500+ hours of studying (that's just for low level conversations, you can spend a lot more time) instead of those 500 hours being work or anything else

@@jaxonmattox9267 yes it would be nice in those situations. I kind of gave up too when I realized I would probably move back home eventually, immigration is to annoying even being married / running business / paying taxes.

You dealing too much with HiSo thai people … plenty of opportunities to speak Thai - just chat with Motorcycle drivers and taxi drivers or out in the provinces … you be forced speak Thai

Sometimes it's a dumb concept in my opinion, in China for example the people would rather lie to you about something than tell you they don't know to "save face", how ridiculous huh.

Michael: i DO work "around US Immigration"; can't be more specific... Nowadays the whole system is a joke, the system has collapsed and people take advantage. You probably know what I mean. Even "our" people are bent on "helping" them. EXTREMELY demoralizing.

She should have been Mexican / south of the boarder she would have gotten in USA plus couple hundred dollars and a phone

@@gem3132 That's what happens when the legal process of coming to the US is way more difficult than walking across the border. Not supporting that but the entire system is completely broken.

And they now share records with other countries. For example if you have been violating visa laws in Britain and apply for visa to US - they will see your UK recs and might ask what happened there.

if i corrected you it might lead you to losing face so i wont )

Cambodia was colonized by a Thailand for 500 years and was influenced by the Thai’s art and culture before the Thai given Cambodia over to France.That’s the reason why you think they are similar. Today Cambodia tried to imitate Thai’s culture and claim to be the owner of the culture with out evidence and reason which caused a lot of conflicts between the two countries.

Thanks so much. WHat culture would you say Cambodia has or had, if not for the Thai influence? Would it be similar to India? Laos? Vietnam? etc?@@joshhansan-bj6ju

not really...its way too early to expect to assimilate from the outset. first step is to earn ''acceptance'' through ingratiating

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The tones come naturally, the more you listen to the language being spoken; you will subconsciously begin to use the correct tones in sentences. If you try to literally memorize every tonal word from scratch, you will fail.

First off about Thai: Thais appreciate ANY effort. We're not talking about snooty Parisians here. You probably should have stuck it out another two weeks. That’s about how long it took me to get comfortable with all of the tones. And, frankly, I don’t pay much attention to two of them, so now you’re down to three. Think of the bright side: no verb conjugations and a decent phonetic alphabet which beats English hands down. I mean were not talking about trying to learn to read Chinese or Japanese, right?

@@rongreer3648 People are just lazy and flat out don't have the passion to learn. I also found that when students are trying to learn the tones, teachers are throwing these convoluted thai tone rules at them, there's no way that a student without passion will learn those rules.

Who want learn this stuped language unbelivebel stuped idee to go there stay there pay 20000 dollar vor visa Ami stuped idee the are not wort it tat false Asian smiles the wort to f to use to forget