Week 4: On June 26, 2013

Writing skill

  Chatting with Foreigners is NOT only Homework!

       

    Greeting is the first sentence that people always talk together. Both speaking face to face in real life and on social network are important for starting to say something. For example, friends say “what’s up man?” or students say with teachers or the others that “How do you do?” “How is it going?” “How have you been?” “Hey!” “Hi!” “Morning” Today, I chat with a teacher who taught me in Culture teaching and Drama subjects at NSTRU. What we chat is general topic as greeting, or asking for something. Chatting on social network is one way to talk with foreigners or people who speak English as fair or good. There are various topics that I chat together with him such as what favorite food he like to eat, tip for practice listening skill and learn Thai language from me.

      While I greet him that “Evening teacher”, he is eating Pizza. He tells me he can chat and eat it in the same time. Eating Pizza is starting to ask him “What favorite food would you like to eat?” He says he likes to eat chicken, but he does not like to eat beef and pork. He says both beef and pork are not good for her body. In addition, he eats Pizza for meal two times a week. He prefers chatting on Facebook than phoning to someone. He advises me for practice listening skill by starting to watch Sesame Street. It’s for kids, but the speaking is slow and they pronounce so perfect. It also is easy to understand. He tells me when I talk with foreigners by face to face “You must be so confident and don’t be afraid that they don’t understand what you say.” I ask him “Can you speak Thai?” He says he can say short word not be sentences. I ask him again “Do you want to learn speaking Thai?” After that, I teach him basic sentence in Thai accent with meaning in English. Coon Pen Krai means “Who are you?” as example. He says Penkrai is new for him. He also tells chatting for homework is funny. I enjoy chatting with my teacher.

       Chatting for homework is not important. From sentence I said, it means we can chat with anyone, anytime and anywhere when we are free. If we think chatting is only homework given by the teacher, we can’t learn new thing about using English. If we want to good at English, we must practise practise and practise because learning English is focused on repeat in practice. Learning English is related to find new experience in order to connect with others especially foreigners both in Thailand and overseas. We should chat with foreigners or talk with them in real life as usual. Don’t dare to speak or don’t have anything to say with foreigners are sentences that Thai people usually say. In my opinion, I ever feel like this, but now I try to be confident for chatting with foreigners or people who can use English as good. If you are shy for talking by face to face, you can use social network; Facebook, twitter, line and the others to chat with them. Do you dare to speak with foreigners? If not! Why?