English is never going to become an official or even unofficial second language for Thailand. At least not until we take things more seriously than just coming up with a catchy name and telling teachers to fix all our problems.
starters, there are no clear guidelines or goals to "The English Speaking Year 2012" project. Schools are only being encouraged to teach English; currently they can teach whenever they choose, for however long they want and there is no fixed syllabus across the education system.