Thailand Cave rescue: ‘You never know when you’ll need English’ - BBC News

Students at Maesai Prasitsart School, which several of the Thai cave boys attend, are looking forward to their return and celebrating the boys’ use of English when they spoke to divers who found them.
Video by Tessa Wong.
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[@bethlehem80]

Teachers are heroes too. There is no learned people if there is no teacher.

[@nine9nine917]

B. Lee agree

[@yu5016]

Agree! but sometime school sucks for me...

[@sirchuti]

Holy heavens!! Thank you! Am a teacher from Africa my heart just melting with unexplainable joy and pride. Glad to hear you appreciate our job.

[@a.ashley5292]

Ben 10, thank you for your work. :) we are all blessed to have teachers.

[@bethlehem80]

Ben 10 i am not what i am today without the help of my teachers. I respect all of you. You educate people i salute to you Sir. Thanks for your service.

[@eddylwanga6332]

Great teacher

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[@meloon5876]

Very well done teacher ! Situational opportunity learning like this makes learning English so impactful, interesting, so relevant and alive.

[@galememeeof6688]

Thank you for this video. That is another aspect of this rescue that I hadn't considered. Thank you to their teacher.

[@palomasavaengcharoen9889]

I am an English and Spanish teacher in Thailand. I teach privately either at their home or my place. Been teaching in Bangkok 19 years. The Thai students are fun to teach and there are jobs for those that want to be English teachers here.

[@booneboone6979]

Paloma Savaengcharoen บ่นไรของเมิง

[@jellyart89]

I learn English from KZbin. I try to remember what people say about that thing and look that word in dictionary.

[@momocitoes]

myjuneh Good job! Keep on doing that!

[@SM-ly5tf]

Good on you

[@yu5016]

You're just like me.

[@sharoneyre7035]

myjuneh ..Well done you!..I just wish that English people (and I include myself in this..'though I do try) would make the same effort with other languages!..speaking the 'universal language' tends to make you lazy! but qudos (respect) to you..Thankyou! Enjoy your day/evening!

[@superqaxclub]

Me too ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@ispbrotherwolf]

Just love this teacher!

[@alibinfarman]

He is such a nice guy. These kids are lucky to have a teacher like him

[@poonpolchitra-dhara8490]

I salute all good teachers. Much respect. Blessings. 😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏❤💙💚💛💖💟

[@ThorS.W]

As a Chiang rai native speaker, English is the most important language because you able to access the knowledge and communicate through all around the world maybe one day save your life.

[@MostCommentsAreFake-ud8by]

Yes, you can now talk to idiots all around the world.

[@norpriest521]

Thor S.W. No, It's not just English now. At least English and Chinese are what kids should study from now on.

[@studmalexy]

who are the idiots?

[@Conc-mt4tt]

Including Bob Smithies.

[@danielfloyd.]

Why Chinese? Chinese is not very useful outside of China. English is international.

[@rassley1967]

I cried so much when I first saw this video. I pray every night for the good news. It's amazing to learn different languages. When I first set I e in the U.S. I didn't speak a word of English now I speak 5 languages. Very blessed

[@kaimitoyuko4900]

wow!this is amazing,sometimes,somehow somewhere you need to know how to speak english to comunicate to other people. Good job teacher,good luck to your students.👍

[@bumblebeemom]

So touching!

[@tonym.6455]

This is wonderful!!

[@truthonly7884]

Teaching is a noble job. We should give respect to them for doing their job of helping us have a good future. Gob bless all the teachers!

[@KillJoy_Since2017]

What an awesome teacher

[@0818264191]

I respect your job for teaching those remote kids. Well done keep going on. Thailand thanks you.

[@amariechear3518]

the diver that lost his life, the team that decided not to go home without the boys and this guy! Proper heroes

[@kevlow9494]

Incredible rescue, true heroes.

[@tengratna5038]

Thanks teacher Franky, please send my regard to 12 kids and the coach soccer. They are very brave and mentally best. Wish to see you in Thailand. Love your work.

[@LuvHartSpainValence]

My students need to see this!

[@timpanatag8620]

Great job teacher!

[@abhishekkumarsingh4706]

Absolutely ,English is a universal language.I am from India and I love English.From education till job , English is necessary and beneficial.

[@akyf90]

Thanks sir

[@cme5821]

Excellent

[@toeystar6883]

thx from thailand

[@gummuiplaytime8823]

Supper....Nice Teacher...I wish my daughter have change to learn with

[@DinoWinoSaur]

passionate teachers are best teachers

[@jarisiri9766]

Merci M. Montagne from Quebec.

[@taichionline]

thank you, teacher

[@ldubna8326]

God bless you Sir! 🙏

[@baicha9705]

Awesome.

[@sniyut1037]

Great teacher. :-)

[@ellenbulay5918]

Very true,, I remember when I was 10 when a foreigner (from U.S) ask me direction I was able to help him. He try to give me money,I declined. I'M so proud 😂using my English to help him is more than enough😀

[@SingerKeyaa]

So true It is spoken at so many continents With the knowledge of English language It will be easier to survive at many places other than our native land.

[@robvikingoneaviation]

It is no wonder that teachers are the most trusted people. They say if you give someone a fish you will feed him for a day. if you teach him how to fish, you will feed him for a lifetime. It was so good to see the boys and their coach rescued. People from all over the world co-operated to bring the boys out of the cave.

[@dimasyulianto5848]

I need to learn from this teacher to improve my English teaching skill.

[@virakchhang]

"If you can read this sign you already know English"

[@Bramthegrave]

Virak Chhang i can't. can you help me to read this sign ?

[@allydzn]

actually very surprised when I saw the video of the Thai boys responding to the British divers when they first saw them. I went to Bangkok a few weeks ago and many Thai people couldn't even understand/speak the most basic English. I mean of course they don't have to since they are Thai and in no way obligated to speak another language. However that was Bangkok, a pretty popular tourist destination. Imagine that area where these boys got lost! So happy for the boys!

[@user-fg5xm7uw6w]

ally koleen 你去别人的国家还指望别人能说英语？

[@allydzn]

just like I said, I don't expect them to since they are Thai. Before going to Bangkok, I studied very common Thai phrases to be able to communicate with them. It was just an observation, since Bangkok is one of Asia's most visited places by tourists, so I expected very basic English from them.

[@franziskaklaiber5768]

Haha I was suprised too.I assumed they had just translated what was going on to English,so people would know what was said 😂

[@nattv9498]

ally koleen When you asking the older generation or poor people pretty sure most of them can’t speak in english but when you asking a young Thais i think they could speaking in english because they have been study in schools.

[@JoyteGotame]

This is so great and wonderful yes need to learn English and some other languages as well so that we can helpself time of need . I am so happy for this generation . Good opportunity knock your door !!

[@Alan-wj5zc]

Learning languages is extremely important and difficult. You never know when you'll need it.

[@zoeyaraujo1058]

Very Cool.

[@BritishMoralHQ]

i improved my english tremendously when i started listening to bbc radio 4 in uk (its also availaible in internet) ... that station speak un-adulterated prolific queens tongue..

[@Tinnesa]

"I AM VERY HAPPY ABOUT THE RESCUE OF SOME BOYS" Didn't sound that happy, lol

[@armando409]

learning eny language it s a good idea . also its good to be Abel to sweem and others skills. respect to all teatchers

[@smit8592]

Why is this so special? I have full blown conversations in English with kids in the Philippines even in very remote mountainous areas

[@tdpay9015]

The United States ruled the Philippines from 1898 to 1946, so that country has been learning English for 120 years.

[@c.s.7266]

Teachers are our heros

[@thelaniakean]

this inspires me to learn my country's second language, french. a good amount of people speak it.

[@BrianCRPG]

Nice job Frank!

[@yushinong4727]

english is important. me too i'm not super perfect to my grammar at least i can understand and communicate to the other nationalities. i am a only high school grad.. but still i want to learn more. mostly my grammar is bad but at least i can express what i've trying to say or explain to the other people around me😁english is a must wherever u go:)

[@Skincarebestie-love]

Yushin Ong I think grammar don't have to be perfect.

[@brinjoness3386]

I think those kids would have survived if it was a mute Swahili tribes person popped up. Smart kids and a cool coach.

[@dlasky]

Hapo umenena ukweli mtupu

[@brinjoness3386]

hujambo rafiki, from a basotho that just learnt 6 words in swahili.

[@deanking6105]

Everything you do that is good has a purpose, do the best where you are. That boy who responded was probably thinking english will give him a good job never did he think it will be a tool to save his life.

[@redfrommars5366]

I live in Laos located in northern of Thailand, I really love to learn English😀😀 (my English is not good, I hope you understand)

[@oliviadupagan6217]

Deng Mobile Wacth Hollywood movie without subtittles then you can learn faster.thats what i do .

[@redfrommars5366]

Olivia Mercado Dupagan Thank you. that's what I'm doing right now😊😊

[@flutterlump]

How long have you been learning English for? It's really good!!

[@redfrommars5366]

Morgan W Thank you. I have been learning English seriously for 5 months

[@jonathantan2469]

I visited Luang Prabang several years ago. There is a centre where you could go to practice your English speaking and listening skills with foreigners and other Laotians. Some of the other Laotian cities may have centres like these.

[@alibinfarman]

Good

[@suuchan3300]

So, from now I would love to ask you(@BBC) is that possible to put English subtitle to every video clip. Because when I do myself study I can check it for some word or pronouciation that I really don't know. Thank you.

[@bradbates2339]

Interesting to see some real-world background for this story with the movie coming out.

[@khwanruanrattanapanich4590]

❤️i like this

[@roses1830]

Could not agree more. Its proven that english language is always the only tools that we have to connect to the world.

[@kristine8338]

Merci, Thank you, bedankt, vielen Dank, Obrigada, Todah raba, gracias. What is "Thank you" in Thai language?

[@michaelrosspearson9756]

Cool!

[@benjaminkhuptong]

Indeed

[@c.s.7266]

I'd love to teach English somewhere in the world.

[@devonheart1029]

I now want to give the team English books and audio files to study in their homes

[@darkenedhound9633]

More appropriate would be, "You never know when you'll need the English". Those boys wouldn't have been found without them. That those divers went so far, didn't give up and laid lines as they went was a superhuman effort. Highlighted even more by the fact that the brave Thai diver died trying to come out after that was done and with support in place.

[@artman7780]

Je pense qu’il est Québécois et sa premiere langue est francais. C’est superbe, professeur!

[@ogiecruz8063]

Here in the Philippines babies can already understand and speak English from 1 year old onwards

[@BritishMoralHQ]

english is the language of the internet and the world... thank you english for everything...

[@koper1984]

I'll start learning English tomorrow.

[@momocitoes]

R ay you r alreadying typing it. This is a great start!

[@aliciazeledon4189]

thank you english teacher

[@ouwkyuha]

There's something in my eyes:')

[@Yattaman1111]

More than one boy in the team outside of Adul can speak English. Adul only seems to be better than other. You could listen the footage more carefully.

[@maryann9956]

God great he’s right

[@marcboissonneault2654]

Salut Francois!

[@PK-cg9sj]

Second language is not easy for many Thai kids. As their parents cannot speak English.In addition they have to learn so many subjects at school. An 8th grader must attend around 35-40 hours for 15-17 different subjects per week.

[@randompotato7439]

I learn english by reading subtitles

[@justvibinchy]

I’m trying to learn Chinese Do you think setting my phone language to Chinese would help?

[@mariamkinen8036]

We had to actively speak to get the best grades.That's the core idea of learning a language. Daring n sharing.....

[@cacaf8989]

English diver thinking we shudda taken thai in college

[@tvm1978]

caca yang 🤣🤣🤣

[@bikramjitbiswas9478]

amazing

[@galihpa]

I have to be trapped in a cave first before I can really make use of my English.

[@EkBoon]

yes. (sorry for bad English)

[@sda9995]

Maybe the teacher should show them the comments on KZbin start there! 😀

[@zzulm]

Learn English... so you can enjoy the movie they are going to do. Which btw I hope Hollywood doesn't distort their beautiful culture just for the sake of having a big blockbuster. I hope we get to see Thailand's side of the story.

[@Saroku1000]

If you learn english and japanese you can enjoy nearly the full spectrum of all kind of movies and shows.

[@jusaguy20]

Dunno why I read it as a big cockbluster

[@zzulm]

Patrick M true, I just would like to see Thailand's side. May be a movie is not a good place to look for that.

[@thairaalhadithy6970]

this eglish man shake the world

[@iskomaxmin]

I have to brush up my English skill now!!

[@jamesgrey785]

In the Hollywood movie they send Vin Diesel down the cave to rescue the actors. He blasts the cave with a rocket launcher then drives a turbo charged Nissan Skyline Exo concept car down the blowhole. The kids all escape on the car roof before the cave explodes. It has already won the Oscar for next year

[@Saroku1000]

in the anime version a guy with rainbowcolored spiky hairs will draw a trading card game out of his pocket while epic music starts and then he will get angry so his hair becomes blonde and then he has the power to use the most powerful trading card that can teleport the kids out of the cave. But before that he must defeat his enemy who used to be his friend but was turned against him by the true enemiy whos identity still is unknown.

[@superqaxclub]

You watch too much Michael Bay

[@jonathantan2469]

You forgot the part where the kids have to hide from the cave monster before the hero arrives.

[@patanman]

Economically, Thailand is suffering because in many parts of the country, many still doesn't speak English. This makes it harder for them to thrive in the international market.

[@jackyflawless5298]

Does Teacher Franky know how to speak Thai? I want to teach English too, in other country. :’)

[@tobiaslauridsen3777]

why did they go in the cave?

[@mcaesario]

Why people go on a hiking trail deep into the mountain and need to be rescued? Their numbers are thousands each year, mind you. I'm guessing these folks who are criticizing the kids are a bunch of unfit 100kg fast food eaters who lived on their sofa

[@copypaste3526]

If only one kid gets a job I have done my job right. NOOOO sir

[@Aviatorspot]

Yes! English is the most easy language to learn. You can travel the world easily if you speak English!

[@DougGrinbergs]

Curious IMHO that they didn't have an English-speaking Thai diver in the team; seems a bit of an oversight, to say the least.

[@Elsonoliveira716]

I learn the English by watching English movies in tv mainly

[@tippas9357]

English haunt you even you r trapped in a cave.

[@notinterested8452]

Yes English is yours as a member of the Commonwealth.

[@b.hagedash7973]

If "a French speaker enthusiastically promoting english" isn't one of the seals of the apocalypse, as mentioned in the bible, then it should be. :)

[@ab-zg8pt]

B. Hagedash haha someone said it!

[@peterd440]

The end of days beckons. I was in a Bangkok hotel and a French tourist was quite upset and complaining in French that her handbag had been stolen. I speak French and understood her but the hotel staff kept saying to her "Speak English. Speak English."

[@momocitoes]

lmfao

[@magpie913]

He said he is Canadian. They are more open minded concerning languages than french people.

[@shafwandito4724]

Coccinella weirdly enough, Quebec is more douchebag than French people when it come to English speaker.

[@technojunkie123]

I have mixed feelings about this - on the one hand it's great that learning english can help better enhance these students lives, but then at the same time is there an ethical/cultural dilemma of English becoming so prominent in the world stage that it supersedes local languages? Just looking at the low rates of billingualism in English speaking majority countries vs non-English speaking majority countries it's clear how native English speakers hardly learn or appreciate another language due to the global prominence of English

[@tonyofarrell2775]

I think only one of those kids is english speaker

[@primroselim6897]

Tony Ofarrell that's what i read. He's Adul.

[@primroselim6897]

peter grahame you're right.

[@shoutucker3726]

this kind of comments really amaze me. god bless you

[@csshin9850]

peter grahame his nationality is Myanmar but he studied in Thai and live in thailand

[@queserazz]

From the clip I think at least two kids can speak English. One is the one who says "I am very happy." (that may be Adul), and the other is the one asking "So where you come from?".

[@zone8848]

but in quite a lot of countries, children learning English is compulsory, such as china, you don't need to encourage them to learn, they HAVE TO.

[@Trazynn]

Cave Diver : "Hello, how many are you?" Kids: "ช่วยให้เรากรุณาเราต้องการอาหารและวัสดุสิ้นเปลือง!!" Cave Diver: "Oh sorry! Didn't mean to bother"

[@cHemon]

decentradical That sentence doesn't make sense to Thai speakers either. ;)

[@dlasky]

Since you can read Thai, why are there no spaces in Thai script? and how do you know that it's the end of a word or a sentense.

[@cHemon]

IdontknowifIcanexplainthistoyoubutyoucanlookatthisexample.