Kreng-Jai is roughly translated as “considering other’s feelings” and “not going out of your way to trouble them.” It’s basically like, even if someone is offering very strongly to do something for you, you should at least show that you don’t want to cause them any more trouble than necessary. It’s kind of like Chinese where you have to pretend you are almost embarrassed to receive help or a gift from someone else even if you want it rather than just telling them “thank you” right away because it makes you look cheap and inconsiderate. 😅

Wonder if it's anything to do with buddhism

I think Buddhism definitely has something to do with it. The idea of acceptance, of going with the flow, of not holding onto things too tightly and impermanence. Culturally Buddhist, but I think most younger Thais these days are more agnostic rather than devout. It is kind of like the “cultural Christians” we see in North America who may not consider themselves practicing Christians or Christians, but the ideas are part of the culture. But the Buddhism in Thailand has strong Hindu influences because the original Dai were influenced by the Khmer (who took in Indian culture) and India itself, as they went down the Mekong from what is now Yunnan in China.

@AbsoluteZero6714 what kind of things would be hindu influenced ? I guess the statues of Ganesh?

@@healthyliving7226I’m not entirely sure but yes, the Ganesh statues, and some of the other deities.

I rather just want to learn communication with thai people, reading or writing isn’t as important to me since i just want to talk with my family

This was also the way that I learned Thai before.

@@kamolhengkiatisak1527Well somebody I know, told me the Thai students don’t do all that well in their Chinese class. And then told me, it’s not like their Thai is really good either. 😅

Although I am Thai, I never got an A for Thai language classes but I got all A for English classes when I was in school😂😂😂

Thailand welcome you na 🙏🏼

Utter waste of time. Thailand is not a country that accepts immigration or provide any long-term prospect for living as a foreigner. Sooner or later you will face visa issues and frustration that comes from heavy pollution, traffic jam, cultural barrier, and corruption. It's a country that you might stay just for a week or month. no more.

⁠​⁠​⁠@@user-nq6qf2xn1qUnfortunately I don’t entirely disagree with you. I’ve seen lots of foreigners who have, and still do a visa run to a neighboring or nearby country every 3 months, apply for a new Tourist Visa and re-enter. Other than that though, it seems like many 50+ are on a retirement visa, a work or a spouse visa. They increased the cost of the Elite, which I was rejected from. The best hope is for a genuinely outward-looking and forward-looking administration to have the power and influence to make things more smoothly for foreigners. The military government definitely was conservative, although it’s also under them that weed was made legal. Weird combination yeah. It’s a bit of a hassle though renewing a visa. I’ve been to the big immigration building over at Chaeng Watthana pretty early in the morning, got my number in the line and still waited until the afternoon until it was my turn. I was also on ED visa. I thought by arriving early I’d get it done before lunchtime, but turns out that didn’t happen. The food there at least is the good part lol, while you wait. Can you imagine a facility like that in North America or China? Not me. Malaysia gives 90 days visa free per visit for US and Canadian passports, and Vietnam has an eVisa policy for US and Canadians that gives 90 days at a time. I’ve stayed for about 3 months in Malaysia so I can confirm this is true. But then, Thailand’s just one of those good, even magical places to be. As much as I try to tell Joyce about certain things, at the end of the day what I really want is for her to be happy and have a good time because that’s what I care about. I’m still keen on finding my own way back to Thailand.

Same here, I’m moving to Bangkok soon as well and Joyce’s input on IG and KZfaq has given me some assurance too. Hope we can all can meet up one day. 😊

Welcome to Thailand.

“It’s ok to be long” That’s what he said…..

ดีแล้วที่ไม่มีซับ จะได้คัดคุณภาพคนที่เข้ามาดู

@@vr2qu611+ค่ะ

@@vr2qu611 เห็นด้วยกับพี่ครับ

@@vr2qu611แต่คนมาดูเยอะขึ้นน้องก็มีรายได้เยอะขึ้น เราจะเห็นแก่ตัวขนาดให้น้องตัดคนดูจำนวนมากออกเลยเหรอ ใจดำจัง

English doesn’t mean quality of people (คุณภาพคน)😂 นะครับ It’s just separate who knows English and who doesn’t.

waiting for you 😚

@@joycehysin Can't wait!😆

na rak lor 🤨

pollution from agriculture still same

@@inzakaew You mean Chiang mai right?

EV bus 100% around the city? lol. The majority of buses here are still from 1970s, nothing can be done, because of financial issues with the country. Surely there will be some new malls and condos built, but the overall cleanliness, infrastructure, heavy pollution, traffic jam will deteriorate or at best the same for decades. Thailand is in decline in every aspect for YEARS due to political issues.

@@user-nq6qf2xn1q what I’ve mentioned are all ongoing projects. The amount of EV buses are already been increasing in every districts around Bangkok, kinda strange you can’t find any.

@@user-nq6qf2xn1q actually there are news,updates,clips about the progression of many projects around Bangkok and it,s not even hard to find. Only if you can understand Thai and know exactly what they are saying.

The prettiest

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Joyce, if you use that as a means to stay in Thailand, you will have to leave the country and apply for another student visa. You can’t transfer over from your current one.

The faculty of tropical medicine is at 420/6 Rajataviti Rd near victory monument.