The functional relationship of these regional languages to Standard Thai and English helps us to begin to see the structure of Thailand's linguistic diversity within national unity, a hierarchy of language use created by people's learning patterns. Most speakers of regional languages learn to use at least some standard thai, many of regional languages learn to use at least some standard Thai, many of them learning it well. Adult native speakers of Standard Thai, on the other hand, do not normally learn any regional language. Many native speakers of either standard Thai or regional languages, however, learn English if they can .