Thailand: Plan to make English 2nd language vetoed

[Francis Hult]

Bangkok Post

 

Plan to make English 2nd language vetoed

 

The Education Ministry has scrapped a plan to make English the country's second language, saying it could lead to misunderstandings that Thailand had been colonised in the past.

 

The ministry will make English the main foreign language instead of the second official language, Education Minister Chinnaworn Boonyakiat said yesterday.

 

Full story:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/local/202224/plan-to-make-english-2nd-language-vetoed

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