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Announcing the second WLT free draw… Curious. Is there such a thing as a paid draw? Not sure. Anyway… after WLT’s first free draw went off ok – Complete Thai: David Smyth Updates Teach Yourself Thai – I decided that giving away free stuff will be a regular item. A good thing, because I’m sitting [...]

AUA’s ALG videos now at AUAthai.com… Welcome to Monday everyone. This is just a short post to point you to a new location for AUA’s videos. Formerly, AUA’s ALG Thai videos were only found on their YouTube channel: ALGWorld. They’ve now created a home for the videos on their site: Learn Thai Language Videos. Just [...]

Skyping with online language exchange partners… In my interview with Fiona from Baby Steps to Fluency, Fiona explained how she uses language exchange partners to fast forward her studies. When I asked Fiona where she came by her partners, she mentioned How To Learn Any Language and Unilang. Armed with google, I went in search [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Joe Cummings Nationality: American Sex: Male Location: Bangkok and Chiang Mai Profession: Editor/writer/musician Website: www.joecummings.com What is your Thai level? On a 5-point oral proficiency scale, I’d rate 4.5 (near-native). I manage academic reading just fine, and write well enough for emails, notes, etc, but not at an academic [...]

Watching Educational Thai TV on YouTube… The many ways to learn Thai thrills me. On top of course books and online Thai lessons, there is YouTube, iTunes and all the iProducts (iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, iPad, etc), recording devices, video software, and… what else? As I no longer have a teenager in the house my [...]

Talking about Stu Jay Raj’s Cracking Thai Fundamentals… Stu is back in Bangkok with Cracking Thai Fundamentals. You already know my experiences with Stu’s workshop, so to give you another opinion I asked a former student of Stu’s, Scott Eddy, for an interview. I first heard about Scott from Claudio Sennhauser, a mutual friend (thanks [...]

Download AUA Thai language videos… In my last post, AUA Thai Videos on YouTube, I shared where to view the over one hundred FREE AUA Thai videos. And while that’s all well and good, there is a slow loading problem if you live in a country that has a naff Internet speed, such as Thailand. [...]

AUA’s ALG (Automatic Language Growth) method… Are you aware that there are over one hundred FREE AUA Thai videos on YouTube? Backing up… do you know about AUA’s teaching method, ALG (Automatic Language Growth)? Our program is designed around levels of experiences, call them ‘tours into language’ if you will. Each hour of ‘touring’ is [...]

Stu Jay Raj is back with Cracking Thai Fundamentals… As I mentioned earlier this year – Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj: Interview Part One – I met polyglot Stu Jay Raj right after landing in Bangkok. I took Stu’s workshop to gain an insight into the Thai language and culture. And I did. Cracking Thai Fundamentals [...]

Fiona from Baby Steps to Fluency… This is the seventh post in the Learn Thai via Skype series. If you’ve just arrived, feel free to start at the beginning with How to Learn Thai via Skype and work your way up from there. When I have time to spare, I enjoy reading the experiences of [...]

Sourcing a Thai language school in Pattaya… On moving to Pattaya one of my first orders of business was to find a decent Thai language school that could fulfill my two main requirements: provide me with a 1 year education visa and be able to teach me to speak Thai competently. While the Education Visa [...]

Learning Thai with Skype language exchange partners… For the past two weeks I’ve been writing about Skype and learning Thai. How to learn Thai via Skype was a brief introduction. I then interviewed my Thai Skype Teacher, Khun Narisa Naropakorn to share how she teaches Thai via Skype. Thai language school Study Thai Online graced [...]