How Old Are You?
by Ron Chester ★ Friday, September 6, 2019

I've included another Thai learning video from Ying here, but not so you can learn the words necessarily, but as an example about the Thai culture regarding age.   

This actually happened to me one time when I met one of Supattra's co-workers for the first time. He immediately asked me my age. This was puzzling to me at the time, but if I had understood the reason for his question, I would have been totally happy, as he was basically trying to determine whether I was older or younger than he was. Well, I'd say he was in his 40's, so he really wasn't sure whether I was older than that? I would take that as a huge compliment about my youthful appearance, as I was in my mid 60's at the time! Once I answered him, then he knew to call me P'Ron, rather than just Ron. P'Ron is pronounced Pee-Ron. I had earned that additional respect by revealing I was older than him. Of course, back in the States, it works the other way around: no respect at all, if you're OLD!  

This posting shows another option with this blogging software. See the little headphones icon to the right of my name and W6AZ user ID? Well in this case, it gives you a second option for watching the video. You can do the customary thing of clicking on the text hyperlink (or right clicking to open it in another tab) OR simply click on the headphones icon. Easy!  

The image of a marble bust of a 40 BC Roman man is from Wikimedia