And if I feel brave enough, I may just comment. If only to leave a ‘thank you’ for all his work.

Khun Krajog’s blog is the only one I know where a Thai is generously helping English speakers to understand the Thai language, and I hope he continues for a good long while.

I especially enjoy the explanations he gives as they go further than learning Thai. They get into Thai culture as well as the mindset of an English educated Thai. His posts on Buddhism are equally interesting.

I’d also like to get Rikker’s take as there were a few things I believe would elicit a comment from him. Not in the way of sentences, but on the subject we often come across when learning Thai – the brand of Thai that is widely spoken, as apposed to what we are told is the correct way to speak.

A small for instance: my Thai teacher often tries to get me to roll my r’s similar to the Scots or the Irish, but I don’t hear Thais in a real conversation emphasise r’s as such. Or maybe I’m not listening close enough?

The rolling of the r’s is apparently ‘proper’ Thai… (I’ll leave the rest for someone else to explain). I know highly educated Thais and they do not run around rolling their r’s. Not even when they’ve had a Singha or two :-)

Khun Krajog touches on the subject in the comments:

Using correct spoken Thai for all occasions would happen only with the speaker who is well-educated and comes from good family background.

People with good habits and manners must be trained, first in the family and then by teachers in school and own observation.

We can not expected everyone on the street or people we meet in a situation do correctly according to the social standards practiced in a locality.

People are not all good and well-trained in etiquettes. Etiquette as practiced in Bangkok may different in the North or the Northeast.Many of them don’t know about social etiquettes practiced in the West.

They just react to an incident by their own etiquette standards or what they think is proper, which may be improper to other people.

The comments are, as you say, as informative.