Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

David Smyth updates Teach Yourself Thai … Only a handful of Thai courses are highly thought of, and David Smyth’s Teach Yourself Thai is at the very top of that list. When I asked polyglot Stu Jay Raj which books he’d recommend to students of the Thai language, David’s Teach Yourself Thai was the only [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Seeing Learn Thai Podcast anew… I ran into Jo and Jay years back, when they had a few choice Thai sound files on offer. It was a simple affair, and popular. They dropped out of sight to later reappear with a professional looking product loaded down with audio and video files. I contacted Jo with [...]

Thai Sex Talk… Before you think I’ve gone all Thai sex-crazed, please let me explain. The well-crafted book, Thai Sex Talk, is not about the smutty side of Thai life. It is a collection of Thai words and expressions that focus on personal relationships. And they are (a given) relationships that include sex and love. [...]

Reflections on Bangkok Found… I’m not a city gal. I enjoy gardening, country walks, and being able to see the moon and stars at night. And since falling in love with Bangkok in 2004, I’ve had a troublesome time explaining why to those who spread out north, south, and elsewhere in Thailand. Their lives are [...]

Thai Language Schools in Bangkok… I often get emails requesting information about decent Thai language schools in Bangkok. And as I don’t have any experience with the schools (yet), I started referring people to the long discussion on the Thaivisa.com Thai language forum. But the discussion grew to eleven pages (and was repeatedly disrupted), so [...]

Susanna Zaraysky and Language is Music… I’ve read a number of books about learning languages. Some are made up of information that anyone can find on their own with a google or two. Others are written by thoughtful people sharing actual experiences of their own. Susanna is such a thoughtful person and Language is Music [...]

What to do with your guests, lah?… When guests arrive for a few days of sightseeing in Thailand, what do you do? Knowing that not everyone has been created equal in the foreign language department, do you… Shove them out the door and hope for the best. Send them off with an English speaking taxi [...]

Even more Thai phrase books… When I went on my Thai phrase book buying spree, several that were not quite right got caught up in the effort. And instead of ignoring their contribution, I decided to include them here. Bua Luang Phrase HandBook Author: Samorn Chaiyana Publisher: Bua Luang Pub. Co. Date: 2003 Third Edition [...]

The guts of a phrase book… Before embarking on this review, I held preconceived notions of what to expect from phrase books: handy phrases, brief dictionary, small in size, an easy to skim layout and design. After the books started arriving (thanks Danny!) a serious rethink came into play. I now know that most Thai [...]

I’m not much of a New Years Resolution type of gal. But, as WLT posts generally go midweek (usually on a Wednesday)… and as this Wednesday is New Years Eve… no real excuse not to. To get a jump on this post, I created two to-do lists. My New Years Resolution… Study Thai first thing [...]

Is there a Christopher G Moore in the house?… I created Women Learn Thai not just to take on the language, but to study the history and culture of all things Thai. For research (especially living in a city the size of Bangkok), the Internet is a jewel. But being old-fashioned, my first choice will [...]