Polyglot Stuart Jay Raj on Learning Tonal Languages (3)
So even Thai, even if they speak their dialect from, uh, northeast or the north or south or wherever, um, when they come to Bangkok, they will force themselves to speak central Thai. And if they don't, there's almost shame to it. And so I guess it's this nationalistic thing too. Everybody must speak this standard Thai. And so that rule is then also applied to foreigners. So if it's just a little bit off in Thailand, Thai's will not understand. Steve: You've scared me off learning Thai no. Scared me off learning Thai no, but listen, you know what? I'm going to stop it there. I think it's been fascinating because I know so little about those languages and I certainly haven't gone at it in a sort of systematic way that you have. And I think many of my viewers will be very interested in following up, whether it be Mindkraft or the other, uh, you know, links that we are leaving in the description. And I'm sure we could go on talking for a long time on this. It is quite interesting. I am going to look into it because it's, it's quite fascinating and, and it's a big part of the world and we're talking well, China, of course, 1.5 billion people. But Southeast Asia, Indonesia, South Asia, we're talking about half the world. So well-worth all of us learning more about, so thank you very much. It's been very interesting. Stu: Thank you Steve.
Steve: And I am going to follow up.
Stu: Okay.
Steve: Okay.
Stu: Bye-bye.
