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Originally Posted by Adak  It's a tough job, but somebody's gotta do it! <grin>
Just don't tell me you've also found a "natural" place to live, halfway around the world?
ThunderRd: do you speak "Thai"/Cantonese, ???, or is English fairly common? |
Well it's as natural as it can be for one of us, I guess...I went on the road at 20 and didn't get out of the job until I was 41 or so. I spent most of my adult life in various places in Asia. The last 5 or 6 years I was working I stayed in Thailand full-time, and I'm 50 now. I'm not Asian, but I have learned that I can *think* like one when I have to. It's not my default method of thinking, but it helps to be able to play the game as needed.
Yes, I speak Thai *fairly* well. Not completely native, but approaching it. My biggest weakness in the language would be technical vocabulary and usage, but it's not a huge problem. English is used by some [usually not well outside of Bangkok. I'm quite far away from there].
Cantonese=a Chinese dialect. Lots of Thai-Chinese people, but mostly Mandarin dialect here. Chinese is not related to Thai in any way - different character set, tones, etc, etc.