A non-profit
in Rattanaburi.
USAEnglish. Two teachers who take no salary, a village school, and the six sites we run ourselves.
Ploy
Ploypailin Moonsri — born 1999 in Bangkok, raised in Don Raet, Rattanaburi, by her grandmother. Learned English from cassette tapes at her grandmother's house. Ban Han Hee School; gold medal, English Story Telling, November 18, 2010. Eighteen kilometers to Rattanaburi High School alone by motorcycle from thirteen; passed the exam for the special program, and her family could not pay the fee. Today she teaches English in the village schools around Rattanaburi, and she interprets in every classroom a foreign teacher works in. Her story is the front page.
Ben
Ben — American, from Texas. He has taught English as a volunteer in Isan village schools for ten years, took his TEFL certificate around 2016, and holds that Isan children should learn American English. He is bad at it in public in front of forty children most weeks, and he goes back.
Why this site exists
Isan children get nine hundred to a thousand hours of English across twelve years of school and come out unable to hold a conversation. It is not the children. It is that nobody in the room produces the language. In 2018 the Education Ministry and the British Council tested about forty thousand of Thailand's English teachers; roughly three in four were at A2 — the level a learner reaches after a year or two.
None of this is a business. The sites are free and will stay free. Where a site does take a fee — a course, a listing — it funds prizes for children's competitions, and it says so on that site.
The non-profit
USAEnglish is run as a non-profit — a Thai non-profit organization, 49% owned by a US 501(c)(3). Ploy and Ben take no salary; the non-profit reimburses their actual costs and nothing more. The registration numbers will be published here as soon as they are issued, for anyone to check.
The sites we run
Every one of them, named, so that when one points at another you know whose it is.
| Site | What it is |
|---|---|
| englishteacher.com | Pronunciation practice — 2,900 words in 81 topics with Thai, no login. |
| eslteacher.com | The open board for English teachers in Thailand, and a free worksheet builder for Thai classrooms, P1–M6. |
| usaenglish.com | The Isan Storytelling Championship — a ฿250,000 prize fund per season, and 50 free lesson plans. |
| usaenglishteacher.com | Verified American teachers — degree, certificate and background check seen — for schools, international schools and families; the fee goes to the children's prize fund. |
| tesolteacher.com | A TESOL course in Udon Thani; first course January 2027. |
| ploy.com | This site — her story, the translator, and "check this for me". |
Nobody can pay us to change an answer, and we do not sell your data. If you find anything on any of these sites that does not match that sentence, write to ploy@ploy.com.
Source. Teachers' English: "about 75% of 40,000 English teachers in Thailand were ranked at the A2 level" in a 2018 Education Ministry and British Council Thailand assessment, as reported by the Bangkok Post ("Bid to raise English skills of teachers"). Hours of English: the Basic Education Core Curriculum's foreign-language allocation across Prathom 1 to Matthayom 6, roughly 900–1,000 hours.