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Originally Posted by marc26
yes, they sometimes do think an English word is a thai word
i also think a lot of guys promote the use fo tinglish because it is easier
i always try to write correct grammar when i am texting my gf and do not take short cuts. even if she has to look at her dictionary, in long run, it is for the best. same goes for speaking.
a lot of times my gf will say an English word that i wouldnt think she would know and suprises me. when i ask her to repeat it, she gets all shy thinking she said it wrong, when in fact it is usually right
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You're doing well with ur GF and I'm doing the same. I do not want her to learn Italian (it's a little bit more harder than English, IMHO), but I do want her to learn a decent english, but I've noted that thai girls are not very self-confident in knowledge and learning stuff. My GF is for sure much more clever than me in many fields but she undervaluates herself and she - as many many thai girls I know - thinks that she's not clever enough to speak english fluently or not in a Tarzan way. Said that, I've managed to learn thai by myself, in order to understand her and to make me understandable. That said, I think that the english syntax is very difficult to thai people, cuz they bild the phrases in a totally different way (not so easy, BTW) and they find it very difficult to switch to another way of talking-thinking.