Hello!
Hello, what's your name?
My name is Jan, I'm from the Netherlands.
I'm Jane from Thailand.
What are you doing in Thailand?
This time I came to Thailand to learn Thai.
I've a teacher, that's you.
It's me.
For how long have you been learning Thai now?
Last year I studied Thai for two months at home.
At the time..
I also learned online with you.
So this time I came back to Thailand again.
I wanted to learn more this time.
You wanted to learn more, now you can speak it already. Very good!
It's so so.
Ok, very good.
Do you think Thai is difficult?
I think that it's very difficult if you don't speak any Asian languages.
But if you speak Mandarin or Cantonese already it's ok.
Than it's ok.
So if you speak Mandarin or Cantonese it's not too tricky.
How long are you staying in Thailand this time?
I came to Thailand for 21 days this time.
21 days...
After that I will go to Hong Kong to visit friends.
On what day are you going to Hong Kong?
On what day?
On Sunday.
That's tomorrow.
Can you use your Thai outside?
Sometimes.
If the person...
...I talk to doesn't speak English
Then I always try to use Thai.
In which language to you order food?
To order food?
Oh...in Thai. ''One Phat Thai'', it's easy.
You really like Phat Thai right?
Yes, I like. I east it almost every day.
Do you work during your stay here in Thailand?
Yes, I work every day.
Normally I workout in the morning.
Then I have breakfast and at noon I come back home to work.
Until the evening.
How long to you learn Thai every day?
I have one lesson of one 1 hour every day.
And I also study...
....
...by myself.
How do you study by yourself?
I use VocaBooster (Thai pronunciation).
This time I learned the most important words first.
And this week I also started using Glossika.
I also use Glossika for my Dutch.
How is it going with your Dutch?
It's not so good.
But I can order food in Dutch (in the Netherlands).
One beer.
And icecream.
Do what do you plan to do with your Thai after this?
I still don't know because I will go to Ukraine in order to learn Russian.
I don't know yet if I will have the time to learn Thai or not.
But..
Now I can speak it a little, but I can't write.
You mean you can't write Thai right? - Yes
So I also want to learn to write Thai.
Do you think it's difficult to write Thai?
Yes, it's difficult.
If you compare with Chinese, what do you think is more difficult to write, Chinese or Thai?
Maybe Chinese is more difficult.
Yes, I also think so.
But I can write pinyin (and also type characters).
But is pinyin easy?
But Thai doesn't have a ''pinyin'' *romanization system
Thai you have to memorize.
But can you read Thai now?
I can read the words that I know, but I can't write them.
You can't write them at all?
Even not one word?
But you can speak right?
Ok, so you're going to Ukraine. Do you also speak Russian?
I think that now my level in Russian is about the same as in Thai.
Can you please introduce yourself in Russian?
How do you say ''my name is Jan'' in Russian?
I can... but if you want to see me speaking Russian you watch me on YouTube.
Only Thai for now.