Pete, I think that they do pretty good in English generally, I know when we were thinking of sending our kid over she would have to have passed an English prof. test. and most schools there also require an ESL before they will allow admittance, at least the ones I checked do.. I have found that if a Thai is given beef that they can actually eat then they like it pretty well, coarse our kid is a teen but even my wife prefers beef to pork and chicken most of the time, [They really like Pork ribs and sour kraut tho,] but we do mix it in and they eat these Thai warm water fish, but I can't go em. I was brought up on PNW mountain trout and cold water north pac salmon and steelhead.