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What Makes the Thai Language Easy to Learn?

What Makes the Thai Language Easy to Learn?

Is the Thai language easy to learn?… The Thai language is immensely different to most western languages. As a high context tonal language, with its own alphabet consisting of 44 consonants and 36 vowels, studying Thai can be enough to make your head spin to the point of explosion. Add the fact that the language [...]

Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations Thailand on YouTube

Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations Thailand on YouTube

Anthony Bourdain makes it to YouTube… Exactly one week ago I wrote the post, Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations: Thai Episode, lamenting that his cooking show wasn’t going to be viewed on available channels in Thailand. Available to me anyway. But here we are already… on YouTube… Edit: And now they’ve removed it… don’t you just [...]