Things to do in Thailand - to help your daily interactions go more smoothly - Part I
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Living in Thailand, as different a culture from the West as we can get, our social interactions with new friends and people we meet can have some hiccoughs. But there are things we and DO to make our interactions and daily life in Thailand go more smoothly.
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Excellent video. Much appreciated. Thank you. 🙏🏻
Thanks, Hugh! Really nice memory!
That was great. Thanks for sharing. (I'm not even going to mention the misspelled word. I'll show compassion to the world.)
Here he is, the legend himself Steve Rosse. I’ve seen some of your content and enjoyed it. I particularly liked it when you talked about your life and career in America
I’ve followed you too 👍🏻
@@CatManUKTH Thank you for those kind words.
@@steverosse you are very welcome. May I ask why you’ve slowed down on the content? I just realised I hadn’t seen you pop up on my feed for a while and then upon checking your profile I see it’s been months since your last upload. Is everything okay? I remember you had a bad bicycle accident, did you recover alright?
@@CatManUKTH I've put the "Postcards" channel to rest after two years and a hundred plus videos. I think that should be enough time to say everything I have to say about Thailand. I will return to Grumpy Old Men in September. I took two months off from that show because my ninety-year-old mother is visiting. Thanks for your interest.
@@steverosse I wasn’t going to ask about Grumpy old men in case you and Tim had a bust up. But I’m pleasantly surprised it will be coming back, great show 👍🏻
Did you just say you are 78 years old? Probably the youngest looking 78 year old I’ve ever seen. Congratulations
Fantastic content also 👍🏻
Ten days older than Trump.
@@hughleong2560 I bet 99% of people are shocked when you say your age?
By the way, thanks for being one of the people who inspired me to learn Thai. I am currently at an upper basic level and my life is becoming amazing, so much support from the Thai people. I plan to enter the intermediary level within a year.
I know my Thai is getting better because many people have stopped saying เก่งมาก and just have a conversation with me. I feel so happy about this 🥹
@@hughleong2560 you might get this reply twice because I just wrote it and it’s disappeared, for me at least.
I was just saying that 99% of people must be shocked when you say your age.
And I was also saying thank you for being one of the people who inspired me to focus on learning Thai. I’m at an upper basic level and my life is becoming amazing. I receive so much support and encouragement from the Thai people.
I know it’s getting better because all of a sudden most people have stopped saying เก่งมาก and just have a conversation with me
This makes me feel very happy 🥹
Nice job, Hugh! What, by the way, is the 'yuppy 1516'.
Good question. Yuppy stand for Yuparaj High School in Chiang Mai, where I was a Peace Corps volunteer. 1516 stand for 2515 and 2516 (1971 and 1972), the Thai years when I was there. The shirt was given to me by my old studnts, now in their 60s, when we had a reunion. Thai students respect their teacher big time and they remembered me (and my wife), their former teachers, and treated us like royalty.
@@hughleong2560 that was real nice - perks tons of memories I’m sure!
Sorry for all that gibberish - it’s me… Pete Coombs…
Great information, you mentioned to do a wai back to anyone who does a wai to you. As if it were a high 5 🖐🏻
What about if the person is female?
Or what about if the person is in a service position, male or female and for example you’ve just bought some food items from their stall and they do a wai
I ask this because one of my issues was that I was sometimes too polite and made it a little awkward because then the other person may of felt they had to be extra polite
But I thought it’s better to be too polite than rude when learning the culture
For example I was saying ครับ too much even with friends, and even in text message conversations 😅
I always return a wai, even at the market, or with a service person. I do not wai them first. When they wai you they are showing respect. Your return wai says, "I accept and appreciate your show of respct, and respect you back. BTW, ครับ is fine, even with friends - unless you are all getting drunk together. Then there are other ending particles that maybe one shold not use in polite company. I won't give you them, just listen to what your drunk frineds say.
@@hughleong2560 thank you for the response and I appreciate your channel. Have a wonderful Sunday.