Photos of Thai Language Day in Phuket
Comments (0) This album contains photos I took during the P4-P6 assembly this morning, celebrating National Thai Language Day. Following the usual singing of the National Anthem and the Buddhist prayers (during a torrential thunderstorm), our school’s head librarian took the microphone and explained the significance of the day to the students and those foreign teachers who could understand Thai. There was a dedication by one of the most senior Thai teachers and then a short speech by the school director prior to presenting awards to a number of students. A short Thai dance number followed and then skits (mostly morality plays, judging by the responses one of my students gave to my questions). All in all, it was a nice program which would have been vastly improved if I could understand more of the language (and I still feel that the Thai staff should at least make a cursory English-language listing of the schedule so more foreign teachers would understand what was going on).
Every year on 29 July, Thailand celebrates National Language Day. The day came about because the Ministry of Education was concerned several years ago that many Thai people weren’t using their language correctly. According to a 2007 article in 
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