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**obegeLype** · 09-22-2012, 05:06 AM

When people travell the world it is hard to communicate unless you know english as this is the only international language that can be spoken every where in the world. It would be nice to be able to say hello in the language in every country you visit.
But what is a big problem in australia where people speak english is there are so many people who live in australia for like 30 or 40 years like my X girlfriends mother who never learned how to say hello to me in english and is still thinks she is living in lebanone as she only socializes and work for people from this community, it's like having communities of small countries in side a large country, this is the big problem of high migration in australia and you are lucky in thailand not to have this problem. In sydney where I come from about 30% of people cannot speak english well enough for me to understand there conversation now that is enoying when I cannot exsplain how to direct a TAXI driver in my own house, I had less trouble in Thailand directing the Taxi drivers because at least they could understand my english.
Good on you Thailand for your basic english.

09-22-2012, 05:06 AM	#18
obegeLype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 517 Senior Member	When people travell the world it is hard to communicate unless you know english as this is the only international language that can be spoken every where in the world. It would be nice to be able to say hello in the language in every country you visit. But what is a big problem in australia where people speak english is there are so many people who live in australia for like 30 or 40 years like my X girlfriends mother who never learned how to say hello to me in english and is still thinks she is living in lebanone as she only socializes and work for people from this community, it's like having communities of small countries in side a large country, this is the big problem of high migration in australia and you are lucky in thailand not to have this problem. In sydney where I come from about 30% of people cannot speak english well enough for me to understand there conversation now that is enoying when I cannot exsplain how to direct a TAXI driver in my own house, I had less trouble in Thailand directing the Taxi drivers because at least they could understand my english. Good on you Thailand for your basic english.
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