Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

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Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Ian Fereday Nationality: British Age: 50 next month (oh dear!) Sex: Male Location: Phuket Town, Phuket Profession: Semi-retired owner of Patong Language School Website: phuket-languageschool.com | study-thai-online.com | teflplus.com Products: Commenced studies at Patong Language School using the Ministry of Education series produced for Thai children studying in primary [...]

Innovative Language Learning… Before I started downloading iPhone Thai language apps to review, I hadn’t heard of Innovative Language Learning. Their frequent inroads into the Thai language learning market interested me enough to take a look. Innovative Language Learning sites provide podcasts with accompanying text expansion exercises and other extensive tutoring aids available to paid [...]

I’m Not Fine, Thank You… From my years of teaching English I have learned that there is a two-line dialog that is ingrained in every student of English, probably in the world. It goes like this: Hello, how are you? Fine thank you, and you? As native speakers of English, we know that there are [...]

Thai alphabet and vocabulary apps for your iPhone… When I started collecting Thai language iPhone apps last year, only a dribble came through. Later, they started coming fast, but then slowed down soon after. You will see what I mean when noting the creation dates for each app (listed below). And btw. The iTunes store [...]

Review: The Linguist – How to learn a language… I know who Steve Kaufmann is. Sort of. A couple of times a year I stop by his blog, The Linguist, to see what he’s up to. But until lately I didn’t know the details of his method of choice. The reason? Because LingQ is not [...]

World Cup & Football Thai… Are you following the World Cup on Thai TV? Do you understand what is being said, or are you watching with the sound turned off? For those who are confused and befuddled, or just want to participate verbally, Jo and Jay from Learn Thai Podcast have generously created two fun-filled [...]

Grokking the writing system by doing things youʼre not supposed to… Iʼve seen a lot of posts on this site about how learning the writing system is essential if you want to pronounce Thai correctly (it is) and how itʼs really not that hard (itʼs not), but what seems to be missing is a good [...]

Hugh’s Retired Life in Thailand… Hugh is an industrious individual. No doubt. Besides gardening (yes, I’m envious, very) he’s always working on new and intriguing projects. Although retired, he authors books for the Thai professional market (impressed? I am). And as you all know, he also writes the instructive Thai Language Thai Culture for WLT. [...]

Learning the Thai Alphabet on YouTube… Clicking around YouTube, I came across new videos of Thai children practicing the Thai alphabet. The video below was so precious, I contacted Natcha to get permission to feature her daughter. And if that didn’t make you smile, I don’t know what will. More YouTube sweeties learning the Thai [...]

Rosetta Stone* Methodology… *After the stone and not the expensive software In her interviews of Thai speakers, Catherine likes to ask if we have ever had an “Ah ha” moment in our Thai studies. An “Ah ha” moment is sort of a Zen “satori” experience where we become enlightened, although sometimes only for a short [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Doug Nationality: American Age range: 50-60 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Computational linguistics Website: Sealang.net What is your Thai level: Intermediate/Advanced/Fluent or a combo? Combo Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? Semi-pro. What were your reasons for learning Thai? Living here, wanted to fully [...]

Rikker Dockum and the Bangkok Podcast… May was a crazy month for Bangkokians. No doubt. And while some of us were busy twitching through the political scuffles, Greg Jorgensen of GregToDiffer.com and Anthony Joh of Thai-FAQ.com twigged it as an opportunity to create Bangkok Podcast. Join Anthony and Greg every Sunday night as they discuss [...]

Chris and Slice-of-Thai.com… A little over a year ago, I featured Chris Pirazzi at Slice-of-Thai.com. Back then, Chris and Benjawan Poomsan Becker had just released their New Thai & English Compact Dictionary. This year, Chris and Benjawan went at it again with a software version of the Thai dictionary. You can read what Chris had [...]

Paiboon’s Thai-English dictionary just keeps getting better… Being the book hound I am, when I first started learning Thai I bought every dictionary under my nose. Out of those, the dictionary found next to my sofa was the now battered and soiled Thai–English English–Thai Dictionary, by Benjawan Poomsan Becker. It offered the ability to search [...]