Can Thai People Speak English?

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

Was this quiz too easy??? Or could you benefit from a 2 week free trial with Voiceping: bit.ly/3IlLT4Z Thanks for watching!

[@DC-wz7ob]

kid....ive lived here 10 years retired.....my thai wife laughs and laughs at this....falang with thai wife HAVE TO WATCH your channel

[@Knbhgcomng]

No. I thought that was appropriate

[@tylerdurden7288]

It was a good level, however, all these people were young in the video. Young people in Thailand can speak better English than older people.

[@insider_english1594]

You were too lenient, actually. Here are the discrepancies you let us get away with: "I'm not feel" | "during weekend" | "most favourite" | "will going to" | "so I eat" (for an exception we say "so I'm eating") Well, I saved you 2000 ฿ dude. Since each participant made at least one mistake. Hope everyone has learned something. And keep having FUN! (comment below for questions).

[@insider_english1594]

I take that back; I imagine each deserved 400 ฿ ;-)

[@Zed1987X]

As a foreigner living here in Bangkok, I see a lot of Thai people speak very well in English but they afraid to talk. Nowadays learning English is more easier than ever.

[@sayajinmamuang]

Maybe in bangkok but even there the English is not perfect. You can tell they prefer to speak thai.

[@mickbotcast]

Several of us just lack self-confidence, if they throw away those mentality then it is easy! I used to be like this when I was around 18-19. Tho I have background in Christ school, and study in international university (well teacher speak in English) It like many of us just didn't have a change to use English that why they have little confidence.

[@benzvd]

That's why many foreigners are not motivated to learn Thai because many people speak English

[@iPaulLee]

I agree. And I noticed that 90% of foreigners can’t speak any Thai even though they’ve lived here for many years. Very sad

[@benzvd]

@@iPaulLee whereas in Japan and China more portion of foreigners are able to speak Japanese and Chinese up to very basic level

[@Julian.91]

Be confident in yourself. Don't be afraid to speak English.Don't worry about what other people think. The more you practice,the more better you get🇪🇸🇹🇭

[@jakediaz3466]

But Asians unnecessary to understand English at all.

[@giannilyanicks1718]

why he wouldn't say the same about thai

[@edurockforever]

When you ask some information to Thai people, even if they're not able to speak English they struggle to help you anyway. This is make them such kind people! That's why I love Thailand 🇹🇭 ❤ 😍

[@cottonbaifai7175]

😍💙

[@tristonarmstrong4617]

this was so amazing to watch, my cheeks hurt from smiling so much and i was SOOOO engaged! So glad they all got their rewards that was awesome!

[@Knbhgcomng]

Mine as well, fun and cheeky

[@FuseFrome]

Thanks for encouraging Thai people to speak English. Even they didn’t do perfectly but you generous enough to give the money to them. Besides giving money I believe you also gave them the confidence and good feeling towards English language.

[@giovannisterlin695]

As an American this is incredible to watch . You chose five random people and four were able to complete the challenge . Absolutely stunning , very proud and humbled by the intelligence displayed by the people of Thailand .

[@icyboy771z]

Speaking another language has nothing to do with intelligence though.

[@giannilyanicks1718]

they're not ebough smart to learn english for tourists?

[@vviolettz]

Great to see how Paddy encouraged them by giving them another chance to speak and not judging them by their accent

[@songphil1376]

Paddy is definitely generous. He told them that the grammar has to be correct, but he literally let it all slide. With just a bit of imperfection, the new gens in the capital city can definitely speak more English. No doubt about it. Comparing this to just 20-30 years ago, Back then, it was surly hard to find anyone on the street who could speak English as good as these kids. My country has gone more and more international❤

[@nuchjareelosiri3662]

น้องๆๆเก่งกันมากเลยค่ะ ความพยายามในการแปลภาษาเกิน 100 เลยค่ะ ดูแล้วน่ารักและยิ้มไปด้วยค่ะ You guys are so awesome ka.

[@InphyFWT]

We definitely need a part 2 with harder vocab! The Thai talent at English is superb!

[@dr024]

This is so good. I remember, i suggested this in my comment on your previous English to Thai challenge. It is nice to know that many Thai speak English confidently already. ☺️

[@andrewbarry5130]

English has a fun trick. If you can get some keywords of the sentence, you can patch together the rest of the phrase. Love the enthusiasm of your contestants.

[@natkhf3301]

You give them the courage to speak with confidence. Even if it's not 100 % accurate. But it will allow it to be developed further.

[@thezone193]

I spent 12 days in Thailand. While I learnt basic Thai to get by, I found English proficiency varied ALOT. Depending on their level of education and occupation. Most of the Grab/Bolt drivers spoke very little or no English. Most Airport and hospitality staff had decent english. Average Joes on the street could only speak a little bit but there was always a fluent person around to help with English when people didn't understand me. But overall, you can easily get by with just English in Thailand. It's pretty English friendly.

[@assail]

This was really entertaining to see how Thai people are able to speak English while foreigners who live there can't speak Thai. Thanks for sharing

[@icpoo1915]

I think it is becuse of the English languge is the National Languge which be used the most. So, in Thai, English languge has been indicated in standard lesson that almost kid need to be tought. However, Thai languge is not famouse in another country, more letter, more intentional ton. It will be so hard for foreigners to learn and take so much to learn.

[@bookthief0796]

I'm an ESL teacher living near Bangkok. Watching the people concentrate and try so hard with translation activated my Teacher Energy SO MUCH. I was saying "Yes good job, thats it!" to the video.

[@naturalselfyoga1617]

Great video! Very proud of the Thai people for learning English. They seem to have come a long way!!

[@実朝-t7l]

I enjoyed this video. I was amazed that Thai people spoke English very well . Their English level is much higher than I thought , If you had done this in Japan , You would not have lost any money .

[@adamirfan7496]

China too

[@klaaskay2685]

น้องมิงค์น่ารักดี I love the mannerism of the girl named Mink. Her English pronunciation is on point.

[@JoshAwang]

Wow Paddy! Your Thai has improved quite significantly there, I presume from being in a totally immersive Thai environment... and these guys are good in their command of the English language also, especially the girl in white. I am really impressed with the young gen. Good for Thailand and its future!

[@easpa8449]

Paddy, says a lot about the quality of your videos that I didn't just skip through the ad break on instinct 😅 I think it's great how you set the whole thing up by telling the participants that you'd be a real stickler for sentence structure and grammar, but ultimately it was an exercise in building some confidence in your ability to communicate effectively in a second language. Looks like you did a great job encouraging everyone, and they all seemed proud of themselves for having passed. Keep up the great work!!

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

Really appreciate it! Thanks a heap for watching

[@oywatters9415]

Brightened up freezing afternoon in the UK 👍🤣 Fun challenge and lovely people 🙏

[@kobemuic]

This is quite an eye opening experience, in the past I think many Thai people didn't have the confidence to speak English but seeing this shows that there is a great improvement, especially in the mindset and the vocabulary, most of the time Thai people are really good at writing English but it seems they are more confident in speaking English, even though this is probably mostly true for Thais in larger cities like Bangkok it's still very promising, thanks for this video Paddy! PS in Thai too but grew up abroad 😉

[@tylerdurden7288]

I really like these videos. As a westerner learning Thai I find it easier to understand you speaking Thai, than a Thai person. Also having the English translation is perfect.

[@FarangMike]

Because he's using the common Bangkok dialect which is used for learning Thai. In the North, North East, South, the dialects are different and that's where it gets tricky

[@alisa_playzz.]

As someone who’s Thai and can speak English quite well, foreigners don’t rlly talk to me cause I’m just a kid. Like they thought teens in Thailand can’t speak English well, but some of us can actually speak better than adults.

[@FarangMike]

Makes sense. Kids are exposed to social media way more than adults these days.. In that sense, it can be a good thing to learn the English language. Keep on learning ! :-)

[@blenderconch]

The 2000 baht was worth it! Very entertaining. The participants did really well!

[@maricelcooper6013]

This video was a lot of fun, I wish I could speak as much Thai as they could English, they were very impressive.

[@walterwlim]

It appears the younger generation (whom you interviewed) will have a better level of English than older folks. It's good that people like Chompoo are learning English from non-International high schools too.

[@readmycomment3157]

What lovely warm people, and so smart too

[@VillageboiRobbie]

Brilliant video Paddy. You smashed it again. Nice one.

[@ZENbulldozer]

So wholesome and the judging was just lenient enough

[@bobu32]

Nice to see that alot of thai people have been learning english at a high level. Though it makes me wonder wether this is just locally, around universities and so. You think you might head out to more rural area's anytime?

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

Definitely in the city there is a much higher level of English!

[@sorac2252]

English is a main subject in schools.

[@noeljr.7724]

Good video. I really enjoyed seeing the excitment when they got each one right.

[@brokensocrates827]

I've been watching some other KZbinrs taking a break from Paddy for about a week.... when I come back to Paddy I realize just how much better his content is. No shade on other language teaching YTers, just wanted to say your content is awesome!!!!

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

Thanks so much for watching! Means a lot to me!

[@bryanjenkins6246]

Great video Paddy, very amusing. I’m enjoying the content

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

Thanks for watching Bryan!

[@siobhanrose1680]

This was so nice to watch! They are amazing!

[@GerbertBartolome]

I hope i will bump you these day. Love watching your videos!

[@FA-xs9rh]

Most thai people are struggle to speak English, but when they are trying to speak English, that was so awesome, goodjob guys from your brother in Indonesia

[@tmcmc5227]

So cool. Thanks for bringing their confidence. Great job 👏

[@romload]

ขอ ขอบคุณ มากๆๆๆ ครับ ทีมีเรื่องราว ดีๆ ให้มมารัรบชม. ขอความเช้าใจ ความร่วมมื่อ ส่งต่อสิ่งดีๆ ของคนไทย สื่อสาร ส่งต่อให้ทั่วโลก รับรู้ และเข้าใจ.....บางสิ่งบางอย่าง ไม่ได้ เป็นหรือ ไม่ได้หมายควมว่า อย่างไร.......อย่างนั้น...... คนไทย ไม่เก่งภาษาต่างประเทศ... ก็ไทย มีภาษาไทย และหลายๆประเทศ ก็ยังใช้ภาษาของเขาเอง รวมไทยด้วย ขอขอบคุณ ทางช่อง คุณ Paddy มากๆ ครับ ที่รัก และส่งเสริม ภาษาไทย

[@BureaucracyWorld]

Thailand 🇹🇭 never been conquered by any western country, so we have no need to use English with in Thailand. And we are proud of our Thai language. But our new generation is very eager to learn English.

[@FOOJFOOJIYAMA]

The only reason you're not colonized by the west is your country serves as a " Buffer Zone" for Dutch and Spanish forces. Without your country in the middle, the French and the Dutch would have to go to war.

[@Junb-jj1kp]

ชอบ content แบบนี้มาก อยากให้ทำบ่อยๆ

[@Ulbre]

Great video, lots of fun and even the sponsor was quite a cool and useful tool.

[@What_are_you.11]

ทำคลิปแบบนี้มาบ่อยๆนะครับ ตอนนี้กำลังฝึกภาษา ชอบครับ❤

[@Dam_Big_Dawg]

Cool game. Contestants sandbagged you. One of my favorite videos.

[@gamergirlkanokwan]

I really like the video. The little girl said " Sometimes I'm chatting with some of my Thai friends in English " ☺👍

[@trisnawidhipratama1712]

You are an inspiration, Paddy!

[@scorcher165]

Great video as always Paddy, love to see it.

[@domtam6571]

Great job Paddy. Love you content.

[@piyawanKandiaw]

This is a great idea to have practice and learn from mistakes if you happen to make so.

[@learnthaiwithbee]

😂เป็นคลิปที่สนุกมากค่ะ ได้ความรู้ด้วย ถ้าเป็นเราคงพูดสลับไปมา ได้ฝึกภาษาอังกฤษไปในตัวด้วย ขอบคุณคลิปนี้ค่ะ

[@doubletwen4327]

Wow i like Mint’s accent, she so good

[@wanidahuynh8051]

Thanks for encourage Thai peoples to speak English, it’s not perfect but good to heard Thai nowadays dares to speaks and improves💪👍🇹🇭✌🏻🙏👏 we are proud to be Thais💕🇹🇭 best country in the world 🇹🇭😘👍 thanks again for your Chanel 🎉👏💐🙏

[@ilmudunia3142]

These people understand English very well. I guess they really benefited from the many foreigner visited Thailand. Opening their country to the world really benefited their people. Kudos also to the Thai government.

[@Tyler-pk2sc]

There were a lot of grammar mistakes but I understood everything. Paddy said the grammar had to be correct but let all the mistakes slide.

[@steffyjem7208]

Indeed. I love how he decided to go with the flow. Cute

[@DemoShipper]

The younger generation is definitely better at speaking English, this is nice. They just have to be more confident and don't worry too much about grammar or accent. The most important thing is to be able to communicate. Well done.

[@robbieramsey8930]

It’s really cute video and you are so kind. You help a bit all the time 😊

[@iamoar]

I love your content. ใจดีจัง พูดผิดให้พูดใหม่ด้วย😆

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

😂

[@superjoker]

The woman in the thumbnail, her english accent is fantastic.

[@tman5634]

Over the last 5 years only, English has improved so much in Bkk. Amazing. Imagine in another 5yrs. Paddy, please try this in a rural area outside of Bkk. Great experiment & fun 😀

[@FarangMike]

Haha. In most rural areas, the teachers do not even speak English. It goes as far as ABC, One Two Three... And back to buddha learnings or about King Rama.. It's a sad thing but the educational system sucks balls in Thailand. You can get top education in very expensive Universities, but again, a degree can be bought :-/

[@JustinFood]

You’re awesome Paddy!

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

Thanks a heap for watching! Means a lot

[@sulfacodeine2472]

For me, if I have to take this test, I think it's harder than translating English to Thai last time. Everyone is great.

[@BellDiNSiRi]

I like your content, it’s a good one. Keep going man!😊

[@pat_thai]

Another fun vlog Khun Paddy this time you were at Siam Square ! Last time in reverse you were at Chatswood Chase !!! I’m sure you knew the outcome well krup Khun Paddy 😊

[@edthbkk1]

Great as always! Hope I can catch you filming in BKK one day, keep up the good work!

[@Shumma-vg3pk]

as a foriegner living in thailand (since a year), i think these people are 1/100

[@bnjira]

The old-way Thai educational system focuses more on grammar than the ability to create conversations. Thai starts learning from grammar, not really encouraged to speak. Therefore, they're worried that they will speak incorrectly (wrong grammar, I meant).

[@aonantonym5698]

คุณอยู่ในเมืองหลวง แน่นอนว่าต้องมีคนที่พูดอังกฤษพอสมควร แต่ถ้าไปต่างจังหวัด จะมีคนที่พูดหรือสื่อสารภาษาอังกฤษน้อยมาก You're in the capital, of course, there will be enough people to speak English. But if you go to the provinces, the will be very few people who speak or communicate in English.

[@minorthreat566]

ถ้าที่ท่องเทียวมีคนเก่งกว่าคนกรึงเยอะอยู่นะครับ

[@stevec9291]

Well done Paddy - awesome video. Great concept and well executed sir 👍🏻👍🏻

[@pohjademaniratana2567]

I absolutely love your videos. Keep it up. I am not surprise with the results though. You were in the city center near one of the best university in Thailand doing the quiz. Go to upcountry next time man. It will be more fun.

[@JustaGirlinThailand]

This is The System Witch on my ThaiTuber channel! I hope I hear from you. This channel and the videos I'll be posting exist because of your channel.

[@jddeavenport]

Paddyยังอยู่กรุงเทพไหมครับ ถ้าว่างๆผมอยากจะมีโอกาสเจอกันและคุยกันต่อเรื่องเรียนภาษาไทยนะครับ

[@chrisseller2276]

If westerners can speak Thai, they are kinda very proud . Never seen a video of a Thai who can speak English, going to the states and testing the Thai speaking abilities of locals there🙃

[@Garfield_Minecraft]

1:55 ชอบสับปรดแล้วถ้า ไปอยู่บนพิซซ่าชอบมั้ยครับ

[@elaxel1469]

Im gonna visit Thailand next year and my biggest concern is if I could have a fluent conversation in english with them to the point to be able to create friendship.

[@myctnd6226]

Really enjoyed your contents, keep it up! ✌🏻✌🏻

[@airamercs5124]

Woooww this is actually amazing to see! Living here in Bangkok is amazingg

[@visitstomyneighbours]

dont take this the wrong way.. but i had so much fun seeing u part with money 😅😅 i was strongly cheering for them all 😂😂

[@Grimreapervlogs]

Great video mate 👍 your channel never disappoints.when u back in Sydney let's catch up and have a beer. Keen to hear all the story's and learn some thai from u

[@tycrazy6174]

Paddy can you make another video on how you would learn thai if you could go back in time or suggestions for some that can not fully immerse such as yourself. Thank you 🙏

[@arz945]

ทุกคนเก่งมาก so good mak kaaa

[@mnantd269]

ขอบคุณสำหรับการเป็นแรงบรรดาลใจในการเรียนภาษาของหนูนะคะ คอนเท้นดีมากเลยค่ะ

[@contrasscommon2336]

As Thai people, I think that English is not difficult to learn. If you really study it, it would be easy to speak, read or write. But from direct experience as a child before As a child, I thought that English was too difficult, difficult to speak, and had a lot of accents. Some words sound the same but are written differently. And probably because it is not as funny as other subjects such as computers or physical education. Therefore, many Thai children are not interested in English. But when I grow up, I start to see the importance of foreign languages because they are used in studying, working or communicating. Personally, I'm not very good at English right now. Most of what I've learned from at work or a little everyday vocabulary Therefore, I have to use a translation app quite often.

[@keegan97]

It would have been funny if you failed everyone on sentence number 4. You technically said grammar must be perfect and they all got the grammar wrong on that sentence. Everyone said "me and my wife" which is not proper grammar, you have to say "my wife and I" or it is incorrect. I accidently say words in the wrong order all the time when I speak Thai and my Thai friends are always very quick to correct me. I feel like this is a really common issue when leaning Thai/English.

[@pfguo87]

Thanks for the video! Its good to know that translation doesn't need to be 100% to be understood 🤣 @6:10 - I still like to use me and my instead of my and I even though I was born and raised in America and English is my first language haha

[@SavageSairung]

I'd love to meet you sometime. You're the inspiration for my Just a Girl in Thailand channel. First video.uo tonight. Rough and shaky but it all starts with making a video.

[@wasitvinitchaikul3467]

That quite easy for young people in Bangkok, but the result could be difference when ask old man or at countryside.

[@saranyasry2748]

Thank you!!! For this video 🙏🥰🥰👏👏

[@khantzawthet6823]

You need to come to Mae Sot. They were afraid of English. If I say English, they run away. Bangkok is a big city and the people can speak English.

[@Brimfulofbeauty]

I always laugh at my language exchange class because my friend asks me to go so I can help the Thais learn English but they are already so awesome and instead they help me learn Thai. My Thai is so bad 😭

[@iamnormal1001]

Please do more clips about Thai people speaking English.

[@ptanjakhondee5201]

As a 14 yos thai. Learning is not hard to learn because we can sound every words in English but what difficult is accent amd grammars.

[@achiraphatl-zl1tm]

The translating process is actually hard I even struggled a lot, but speaking English to other English speaking people is way less complicated because your brain only have to think in one language and it will come out so fast!

[@stampw]

น่าเอาไปลอง challenge แม่ค้า street food โซนท่องเที่ยว . . . เค้าน่าจะต้องใช้บ่อย

[@Thailand008]

Nice 👍 ❤ Thank you for the lovely activity❤❤

[@impossible993]

ทำคลิปแนวนี้ ต่อไปนะครับ พร้อมสนับสนุนครับ

[@imbored1227]

I like your cotent so much. Keep doing!!!!

[@Justinthai]

ดูสนุกมากครับ Paddy เป็นคนดี

[@ThaiTalkwithPaddy]

ขอบคุณที่ชมครับ 🙏

[@jaqueesebogard9275]

lol as a current Thai learner I just realized pineapple and passion fruit sound almost exactly the same 🤣 2:20

[@NateWithWho]

สัปปะรด กับ เสาวรส sounds very similar. To be honest, it's more difficult to know passion fruit word.