Phuket

ub2yoo · #36 21-11-2006, 04:23

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Originally Posted by stevem

Coming from a services background, you DO listen to what your superiors and instructors tell you, it WILL save your life and others under your command at some stage guaranteed.

...something to think about !

t0rn · #37 13-12-2006, 01:36

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Originally Posted by jason_uk

cool thanks mate only prob is now trying to get her to understand what i mean by this translate thing,i have in mind.

Jason,
Due to a very out of character email I got last month (use phone, email very rarely) I did some more asking around about this.
I sent an email with some flight schedules and got a reply along the lines of 'maybe it's better I get the bus honey can you send me 10000 baht for bus ticket'

Now as I speak to this girl daily I was a bit mystified by the reply.
Turns out the people who do the translations often add in a request for money and then pressure the girl into giving them a percentage.
So be aware of this, though if she doesn't speak english your relationship may turn out to just be with the translator wo/man ......

Good luck!

jason_uk · #38 13-12-2006, 18:35

yeah she is getting a friend to do it for her but it really aint enough i have found that through sending letters to phuket and them never arriving that a translation company would be as corrupt as the postal service,

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Originally Posted by t0rn

Jason,
Due to a very out of character email I got last month (use phone, email very rarely) I did some more asking around about this.
I sent an email with some flight schedules and got a reply along the lines of 'maybe it's better I get the bus honey can you send me 10000 baht for bus ticket'

Now as I speak to this girl daily I was a bit mystified by the reply.
Turns out the people who do the translations often add in a request for money and then pressure the girl into giving them a percentage.
So be aware of this, though if she doesn't speak english your relationship may turn out to just be with the translator wo/man ......

Good luck!

marc26 · #39 14-12-2006, 00:21

my gf spoke a little english when i met her
we just talked on the phone, and although sometimes difficult, she picked it up extremely fast
shes no shakespeare, but she speaks, and more importantly, understands english more than most girls i encounter

t0rn · #40 14-12-2006, 01:11

m26, my girl was the same but could read almost nothing - spent about 1 hour a day on the last trip teaching her to read english and she's now pretty good at it, amazing how good 'Disney's English Picture Dictionary' is

marc26 · #41 14-12-2006, 01:15

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Originally Posted by t0rn

m26, my girl was the same but could read almost nothing - spent about 1 hour a day on the last trip teaching her to read english and she's now pretty good at it, amazing how good 'Disney's English Picture Dictionary' is

i will say something for my gf, she wants to learn to reaD, constantly trying to read english

Nanook · #42 14-12-2006, 14:30

In that case I am lucky. My gf speaks reasonable good English and also the sms's and emails she is sending to me are not bad, although Thai style English.

Should she wants to come and live in Holland, she will really get a major headache, because the recently introduced Dutch immigration laws, insist on people who want to get a residence permit, to learn basic Dutch and pass a test prior to their formal application. The classes and exam must be taken in Thailand.

Is this same in other countries too?