There was a lot of new experiences during my first week in Thailand. From the Thai lettering, thai foods, language, and the people. I think i want to tell it all in different article, and now, one of my huge obstacles in here is communication.
. As you know, thai people speaks thai and they have their own thai lettering. Not all people in thai can speak english. Actually, maybe this situation is almost similiar with Indonesia. But, Indonesian using latin writing. So, foreigner still can read some sentence in Indonesia. In Thai, you will feel like you were reborn. You can’t read, you can’t speak, you can’t hear. But you can cry. . Don’t worry. You have a desire to survive. You can solve that problem easily, because you need food, you need internet data, you need taxi to pick me up. Although they can’t speak english, you have to speak with them. Here is the tips to have a communication in Thailand. . Body Language is the Super Power! Communication is how to deliver a message to people that the people could understand what i mean and i can understood what they mean to. My college teacher told us that “Symbols don’t give any means to people, but people gives the symbols a meaning to be understood”. And, you have to know a forbidden symbols in your country. It helps you to be treated good in other country. Such a red light in the traffict light. The red light doesn’t give a means to stop, but we give it a meaning to stop. We have a universal body language. You can express anything with your body. You can pointed a thing, or create symbols with your finger. It may helps you a lot because they will understood about what you mean. You can combine your body language skills with speaking a basic english words. . Thanks to Google Translate That is the easiest way to have a communication for millenials. If you feel so hard to explain your words with your body language, google translate is the easy one. Open your mobile phone, go to google translate, and translate. Easy, right? And if you didn’t understand what they said to you, you can use voice translate, just let them speak into your phone, annd google will translate it. Life is so easy now! . Ask for Assistance One day, my friends and i want to go to Central Plaza in Chiang Rai by order Grab Car. We got a driver, and then he called me by phone. Unfortunately, he can’t spoke english. When i spoke in english, he will answer in thai. It made us confused and stucked. And then i saw thai police was walking in the street. I came to her ask him to answer my phone and tell him that i am here. The policeman can’t speak english, but they understand what they have to do from us. Thanks. Well, if you are in a urgent situation. You can ask people that you could believe to. I was so lucky there was a police near by me. I trust them because they work for government. If you were in tourism place, you can ask to the information center, or you can ask for help to the native people who speaks english.
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