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Interesting post. As someone who lives outside his homeland, and predominantly speaking a foreign language, I can completely identify with your comments about h
by junto 13y ago
Interesting post. As someone who lives outside his homeland, and predominantly speaking a foreign language, I can completely identify with your comments about how hard it is to cope with the concept of being disconnected with your homeland's society and not fitting in with the new one.
Slowly things have improved for me as I have learnt to speak the local language, but deep-down I still feel like an outsider. I have a sneaking suspicion that this feeling never goes away, and I'm learning to just accept it.
Integration is hard. I imagine learning Thai is a much bigger challenge than a European learning French, German or Spanish for example.
Good luck to you I say!
- pieterhg 13y agoOP here :) I didn't necessarily mean it as a bad thing. It helps yourself to become more independent and less of a follower of your particular society's group-think, potentially giving you more unique ideas.
- junto 13y agoTrue. I guess it makes a difference if your stay is intended to be a permanent one or not! It sounds like yours is temporary, whilst mine is intended to be permanent.
- noisy_boy 13y agoLearning basic Thai is quite simple - you cover the basic food items, numbers and common touristy words. Things get difficult when you decide to read/write.