Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

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Red Shirts, pink shirts, yellow shirts… or no shirts… With Thailand’s political skuffles deepening, I’ve had daily rethinks about the contents of my posts. You see, there are three weeks + of product reviews waiting in the wings. And understandably, no one wants their feature to go live during a time of bloodshed. Boggles the [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Martin Clutterbuck Nationality: British Age range: 40-50 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: PR Website/blog: Siamese Cats: Legends and Reality Book: The Legend of Siamese Cats What is your Thai level? Fluent, but shy of bilingual Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? Early on, I [...]

What’s going on with Thai politics… Some westerners in Thailand see the Red Shirts as an inconvenient pain in the butt (but so are volcanoes). Others feel that the Red Shirts have a valid point (a number of Pink Shirts believe that too). To top it off, knowledgeable expats plugged into the mainstream of Thai [...]

Old Snake Heads and Butterflies of the Night… The Thai language is as rich in metaphor as any language is. The kinds of metaphors that you will come into contact with will all depend on what level of society you hang out with. It is a good idea to keep the drinking buddies’ metaphors separate [...]

More free Thai learning resources… There are several ways of getting around Learning Thai the Easy Way. One is via their sidebar nav. And there is an additional way, their Free Thai Resources page. I don’t believe it gets you into everything on their site, but does make it easy to skim for free subject [...]

What I see in my neighborhood… I live in an apartment right in the middle of the Ratchaprasong area, so I am able to give a firsthand report about what I see. Several times a day, my wife and I go on the streets around the Ratchaprasong intersection, out among the reds. From our windows [...]

So, am I Red, Yellow, Pink. Or Blue even?… Thailand is awash with colour: Red, yellow, pink and blue. And as most everyone knows, on Mondays we used to watch seas of Thais heading to work wearing yellow shirts. But now the wearing of yellow is no longer seen as just supporting the King because [...]

A rambling rant… Due to the deaths in Bangkok this weekend, my time-stamped posts for Wednesday and Friday have been rescheduled for a more peaceful time. Instead, you get the below: A ramble, a sofa rant, of sorts. But before I get into it, please let me offer condolences to those who lost family members [...]

Fancy your next Thai lesson on ‘Speed Metal Thai’? On how glass bottles are made? Fashion tips? A visit to the Bangkok Seashell Museum? Cooking sessions? Looking graffiti artists over the shoulder? Yes? Then stay put! Automatic Language Growth… The way children acquire their native tongue is perfect: it always results in fluency. Automatic Language [...]

Stu’s impressive multilingual presentation… In case you’ve missed it, this week on WLT has been back-to-back Stu Jay Raj: Monday: Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj: Interview Part One Wednesday: Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj: Interview Part Two Friday: Successful Thai Language Learners: Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj And if you live in Thailand, then you’ll know that it’s [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj Nationality: Fijian Indian / Australian Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Anywhere and Everywhere Profession: TV Host / Cross Cultural Business Consultant   Web: Stu Jay Raj stujaystujay’s YouTube Channel Note: As this is the final post of a three part interview, some of the [...]

Interview with polyglot Stu Jay Raj… Heads-up everyone: This post is a continuation of Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj: Interview Part One.   Stu, with Cracking Thai Fundamentals and now Mnidcraft, you’ve taught the Thai language to expats for some time. In your experience, which learning difficulties are the most common?   The writing system always [...]

Interview with polyglot Stu Jay Raj… When I moved to Bangkok I was fortunate to discover Stu Jay Raj’s Cracking Thai Fundamentals course located at that time on Suk Soi 1. Once a week for ten weeks I’d jump on the MRT to travel into the bowels of Bangkok for an hour of hilarious fun. [...]

Thai language learning forums… This week I started thinking about how much I depend on Thai language forums. So much so, that I’ve added the top two to my sidebar. After, I started thinking that maybe you depend on Thai language forums too. And that got me to thinking that there is a real possibility [...]