Understanding Spoken Thai

[Pat]

Thanks for your concern

[Pat]

How did you wash up in Thailand in the first place?
Two weeks in Pattaya or Cowboy would be a likely guess

[Elvis]

By your own admission, you don't speak Thai, so it should (I hope) come as no surprise to hear that this is complete bollocks.

You are obviously an idiot - and I dont waste time arguing with them - I just block them.

[Pat]

Please leave us all alone Luigi / Dan / Jose

Get back to clowning about on TD. You won't get no repo here apart from pissflaps.

Is it really worth it?

[Templeton]

Bump....

[Chitown]

Here is pretty good Facebook page that a Thai member here has, although not posted on TC in some time ☹️

https://www.facebook.com/fluentthai1/.
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[Chitown]

I sent Fluent Thai a PM requesting some Thai language help posts...

[marmite]

Did you get a reply?

[Templeton]

Did you get a reply?

They're all dead.....

[Raven]

I've been trying to learn Thai for decades and have lived here since 2005. I've spent lots of money on courses, books, CDs, etc. After all that time and effort I still can't make heads or tails out of spoken Thai. I've never had any sort of conversation with anyone in Thai.

If we're out and about and I hear something I don't understand (around 100% of the time), I ask my wife about it. She usually translates the Thai from standard spoken Thai in to what we call "Rosetta Stone Thai" which I readily understand. I'm sure you can see that this approach is impractical.

Yesterday we were at lunch when one of the patrons asked for the bill. I only know he asked for the bill because soon after he spoke one of the waiters delivered the check to his table. I understood none of what he said. I could pick out no familiar words.

I asked my wife to "tell me exactly what he said". I amended that by telling her to text it to me instead. This is what she sent:

น้องครับ เช็คบิลด้วยครับ

Of course, as soon as I read that I did indeed know exactly what he said.

How can I persuade my ear/brain to do as well with spoken Thai as I do with written Thai?

Some things are just not meant to be. In this case you should give up.

[marmite]

They're all dead.....

That's sad.

[Boon Mee]

They're all dead.....

Sure seems that way. Even the News Junkie has fooked off?

[Somchai Boonporn]

Sure seems that way. Even the News Junkie has fooked off?

Nay.
Just posted up the other day.

I'd be more curious as to who News Junkie might be.