LOL...relatively easy...relative to learning Martian you mean ? ;-)
I've been here 7 years and although I can get around, buy stuff and generally make myself understood I find it horrendously difficult. I can't even hear the difference in the tones when I listen to a Thai speaker! It doesn't help that my wife speaks almost perfect English and is impatient so I haven't needed to learn much but I would love to read. However, I see their spaceless, punctuationless lines of text and a mist of hopelessness descends upon me!
I do speak French, and a little Spanish, Tagalog and Bahasa and I can at least be polite in a number of other languages but if I'm honest, I quite like not understanding Thai. As a pretty anti-social, miserable loner, it means I don't have to talk to anyone. Especially the in-laws 555 ;-)
Check out 'Learn Thai with Mod' on YT, I love her style and learn a lot from videos like this. Again, it would be great having that sort of language instruction on dtube.
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I see your point. Even in class, we avoid the tones, as it seems impossible to learn about them without going into advanced studies.
And since you can are at least bilingual, with knowledge of various other languages, I'll accept the fact that you do indeed know what you are talking about.
Anyway, I'm just glad to learn a bit of Thai, and hopefully be able to understand / speak with Thais when necessary. But I to am rather anti-social and definitely a loner, so when I don't wanna speak with anyone, I just retreat to my home, or go to a bar where I'm anonymous.
I'd seen "Learn Thai with Mod" when I was starting to learn. Maybe I'll check her out again, and see if she can help me a bit.