{"id":4,"date":"2006-07-26T09:53:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T02:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/?p=4"},"modified":"2011-03-24T08:08:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T08:08:23","slug":"langauge-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/4","title":{"rendered":"Langauge&nbsp;Barriers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;ve been trying to sign up for various courses in Bangkok, which have been advertised in English, but guess what, when I call or email the people in charge, they tell me the course is in Thai.  My Thai isn&#39;t that great but it&#39;s not that bad either, so I think if I tried hard enough I&#39;d be able to follow along with the course.  If the course was free, I&#39;d definitely do it &#8211; instead it&#39;s going to cost approx. $700 Canadian so I have to rethink it.  What gets me going is that WHY ADVERTISE SOMETHING IN ONE LANGUAGE, BUT THEN HAVE IT TAUGHT IN ANOTHER?!    Any ideas out there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#39;ve been trying to sign up for various courses in Bangkok, which have been advertised in English, but guess what, when I call or email the people in charge, they tell me the course is in Thai. My Thai isn&#39;t that great but it&#39;s not that bad either, so I think if I tried &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/4\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Langauge&nbsp;Barriers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}