Craig was dismayed that Soom was having to dumb down to doing everything in Thai instead of English, not because the Thai language was deficient, but because it was restrictive. He had met dozens of bright computer kids in Thailand who could not converse about their computers in English even though they had learned the English terminology. Their pronunciation was just so bad and they had learned that from their teachers.. Computer became ‘com’; programme, ‘progra’; monitor was ‘scee’; keyboard ‘keybo’; hard drive was ‘ha dive’ - it seemed such a waste.
Those kids would forever only ever be able to work in Thailand for low wages. He wanted Soom to speak correctly and learn computers in English, but the quality of the teaching staff was such that she was being taught wrong – nobody in the w
