Dear Hillary,
I’m sorry dear, but you do go on a bit about farangs who should learn Thai if we want to live here. That may be OK for you, but for some of us like me, it is not so easy when English is my mother tongue which seems totally different from Thai in every way. If we must, then where can old codgers like me go to learn?
The Artful Dodger
Dear Artful Dodger,
Now then ‘Artie’, I am sure you are not a pickpocket as that is who the Artful Dodger was in Charles Dickens, and Hillary can forgive your being unable to read Thai or speak Thai, my Petal, but are you blind as well? There are several language schools in town and they have their school name, and the languages they teach, all clearly written in English, your “mother tongue” as you put it. They have posts outside where you can tie up your Labrador and you can put the white stick beside your desk.
