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  1. I've done about 10 stories using chatgpt. Now, when I create a story, I add a second 'command' in chatgpt asking it to create 10 questions in Thai language to check my comprehension of the story. Works great. You can make your question specific to a topic, if you wish. Such as, "create a 1000 word story in Thai language about a poor farmer family living in the northeast of Thailand" or "create a 500 word story in Thai language using vocabulary needed to get a haircut' or vocabulary needed to go to a bank and open an account or go to the electric authorities to complain about electrical problems in the neighborhood.
  2. I try to do a few minutes of reading/writing practice each day to keep up with my ป.2ish reading skills. You can ask chapgpt (in English) to "create a 500 word second grade story in Thai language" and have a story waiting for you in 10 seconds. Tailor you query to your specific skill level.
  3. With the google translate app active on your phone, you can take a pic of the scanned document and have it translated.
  4. The handle on my old bialetti crapped out on me after years of use. I bought a stainless bialette to replace it, and covered the handle in aluminum tape (available in Home Pro, Global House) to better protect it. 5000 cups and several years later, the pot keeps brewing.
  5. Never say 'never'. We lived in Thailand for 26 years, always figured we'd finish up floating down the Mekong. Then older age set in and we jumped on an opportunity to assume a 2.65% VA loan in a desireable neighborhood near our daughter. Some of the hoops that we had to jump through: -Good credit score.....check. I guess that was the result of maintaining/occasionally using a US credit card over the 26 years.....airfares, diesel, vacations, NYT subscription -Tax returns for the past 5 years. -Certificate of eligibility from the VA (obtained online) -A most difficult time making the mortgage company understand that we lived in a house in the jungle where I wasn't the owner, I didn't have a deed, I wasn't paying rent, I didn't have utility bills or a vehicle in my name. - I did maintain a US driver's license with our daughter's address. - We both paid into medicare part B so no issues when we moved back to the US. What should have been a 60-90 day closing on our home ended up taking 5 months. We moved to Thailand in 1996 with 2 suitcases each and moved back to the US with 2 each. Our main lesson learned: Never say 'never'.
  6. Not for everyone, but the village pharmacist wanted to improve her English and I wanted to improve my Thai. Her mother was a primary school Thai teaccher and the daughter learned the rules from mother....probably better than most primary students. We struck a deal.....2 hours of English conversation for 2 hours of Thai. She took me through the first 20 or so lessons of Maani (https://ressources.learn2speakthai.net/ for examples) before worrying about tones). But from the start, I asked her to insist on proper pronunciation. I wrote each lesson as homework from the start. After those 20 lessons, we started to break the code on tones. It took a few bottles of headache medicine and lots of practice, but the day came when it all came together. You might be surprised to find a person in your village/area that an do the same. In any case, best wishes on improving your language skills. All the pain and agony is worth the effort.
  7. That should have been ผมอยากไปสวนสัตว์ Quote
  8. Or, people will speak in the third person.....me, being Uncle John: ลุงจอห์นอยากไปสวนสัตว์ instead of ผทอยากไปสวนสัตว์
  9. Thanks for the info. I've been an amateur Thai learner for 15 years......can read/write/type/speak passably, and can't say I've come across the character (ฤ)ๅ. I never learned the alphabet (a,b,c,d), so maybe that's where I missed out. Thanks, again.
  10. According to what I can find, the word for 'hermit' can be spelled: ฤๅษี ฤาษี or ฤษี Is there any difference in the verbal spelling (pronunciation of each letter) for the 3 different spellings?
  11. I apologize for jumping late onto the train. I've been married to the same Thai woman for 50 years and we have lived in Thailand for the past 26 years. We are days away from relocating back to the US for our own personal reasons. We could just as easily live out our days here. My advice is you're not financially able to retire in Thailand based on the numbers you provide. You'd probably do fine on your numbers with normal daily living expenses, But if you're already exploring the use of an agent to get you over the visa hump, then I'd say you shouldn't retire here. You're at that point in life (somewhere between ?55-65?) where you need to be thinking about medical care. Not cheap in Thailand. You don't have the option of having a serious medical problem/accident in Thailand and choosing to get medical care in the US. Even at 65, medicare doesn't cover any expenses overseas (unless you're retired military). With your savings, consider coming over every year or two for a few weeks.........relax and enjoy. But whether you choose to stay in the US or come to Thailand, you're going to need substantially more money to make your retirement enjoyable.
  12. I haven't flown with them, but have read that they have one of the highest cancellation/late rates. A friend who works at Air Asia also said that airline often cancels or is late.
  13. If she makes a simple will and gives everything to you, then that's that. All the yad-pee-nawng (family/relatives) don't get anything. Simple
  14. I like shoe photos......shoes outside of a primary school, shoes outside an eye clinic, shoes outside a temple. Shoes tell stories. As for taking photos of people in public, I'm not shy about asking if I can take someone's photo......I've never had anyone turn me down.
  15. I have a retirement account with 800k. My wife and I have a joint account with several xxxk at the same bank. I am not allowed an ATM card with my retirement account, but have one for the joint account. I applied for online banking.....assuming it'd just be for our joint account. I set it up and have access to both accounts. I can transfer between accounts online.........obviously, not as the system intended, but it's the way it works for me. A classic case of t.i.t.
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