Lani Cox

Lani, a Thai Learning Thai: Part 2

Lani, a Thai Learning Thai: Part 2

This Thai learning Thai… Learning Spanish seemed counterintuitive to retaining any Thai that I had acquired but that is exactly what I did. When I moved to Ecuador I thought I could keep up with my Thai and learn Spanish too but I couldn’t. There wasn’t enough room in me brain for both languages. Acclimating [...]

Lani, a Thai Learning Thai: Part 1

Lani, a Thai Learning Thai: Part 1

This Thai learning Thai… Unfortunately there was no mystical transference or osmosis of language from mother to womb. So I am an American born woman who is ironically half Thai and half Chinese. Ironically because my ethnic makeup is very Thai, something I learned when I moved here as an adult. There are many Thai-Chinese [...]