Comments on: English as a second language http://mytravelhats.com/2008/12/12/english-as-a-second-language/ Travel stories, tips and news for desk-bound travel addicts with only three weeks vacation a year. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:43:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Josh Gluck http://mytravelhats.com/2008/12/12/english-as-a-second-language/#comment-4 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:44:56 +0000 http://mytravelhats.wordpress.com/?p=51#comment-4 OK, I’m not sure that English has more speakers than Chinese, but I am certain that if you consider all of the people who speak a smattering of English (rather than English as their sole or 1st language) you’ll get way more than 300-odd million speakers.

As for Thailand, I’m pretty certain you’ll do fine with just English. Tourism is a huge part of the Thai economy, and English being the super-cool international language du jour you’ll have no problem. I found that starting every conversation with a huge smile and a “sawadee-kap” (that would be “sawadee-ka” for you women) was plenty Thai to know.

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