Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Celia Chessin-Yudin
Nationality: American
Age range: 20-30
Sex: Female
Location: Mahachai, Samut Sakhon, Thailand
Profession: Working at an NGO
What is your Thai level?
I would say I am at an advanced Thai level. Though not fluent yet.
Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai?
I speak professional Thai as I have [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Stickman
Nationality: New Zealander
Age range: 30-40
Sex: Male
Location: Bangkok
Profession: Teacher
Website: StickmanBangkok.com
What is your Thai level?
I guess I would say I am Advanced. I don’t consider myself fluent because to me that means you can talk about absolutely anything in great detail with anyone. There are a few technical subjects for [...]

David does the Tiger Temple…
I could start this post off with something all dramatic like, ‘Temple Tiger Eats East End Expat!’.
But I’m lazy. And lying is such a bother. So this is what you get instead…
When the Tiger Temple appeared in the news this week, I wrote: Thailand’s Tiger Temple Sues Conservationists.
The court case [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Thomas Lamosse
Nationality: American, Edina, Minnesota
Age range: 30-40
Sex: Male
Location: Bangkok, Chonburi, Edina Minnesota
Profession: Teacher/PhD student-Phonology
Website/blog: Talk-2-Me-Thai
Book/course: Talk-2-me-Thai DVD phrasebook
What is your Thai level?
I will let you decide. I never boast about my language skills.
Do you speak more street Thai, Issaan Thai, or professional Thai?
When I speak Thai, I pay special [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Vern Lovic
Nationality: USA
Age: 43
Sex: Male
Location: Surat, Thailand
Profession: Internet marketing, writing, web development
Website/blog: Thailand eBooks
ThaiPulse.com/blog
JoysThaiFood.com
AimforAwesome.com
YouTube: thaipulsedotcom (160 Thailand videos)
What is your Thai level?
It ranges from comfortable to very uncomfortable. It’s all in how the conversation goes really. There are many topics I know how to talk about, and many more [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Colin Cotterill
Nationality: British
Age range: 50-60
Sex: Male
Location: Chumphon, Thailand
Profession: Writer
Website: Colin cotterill
Blog: International Crime Authors Reality Check
What is your Thai level?
Advanced. I’m not even fluent in English yet.
Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai?
Although I’m living in the south, I stick to central Thai. I get the [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Jonathan Thames

Nationality: Third Culture Kid; USA citizen

Age range: 20-30

Sex: Male

Location: Monterey, CA / Chiang Mai / other places

Profession: MPA Student



What is your Thai level?
Let’s say “Advanced” because I am generally proficient and got into “Advanced Language Study” at my current school (Monterey Institute of International Studies). The word “fluent,” I [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Hardie Karges
Nationality: American
Age range: 50-60
Sex: Male
Location: Traveling currently
Profession: Business, writing
Website/blog: Thailand to Timbuktu to La Paz: world music, film, and travel
Hardiek’s Traveler Profile – TravelPod
streaming consciousness
What is your Thai level?
Advanced/Fluent.
Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai?
I don’t acknowledge the ’street’ version of [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Name: Peter Montalbano
Nationality: World citizen with a U.S. passport
Age range: 60+
Sex: Male
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Profession: Musician/writer
Website/blog: montalbano.org/peter (out of date!)
What is your Thai level?
I have problems with using the word “fluency” linking me and the Thai language. I am extremely facile on some levels, but quite dorky and clumsy on others. [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners…
Names: Jonas Anderson and Christy Gibson
Nationality: Swedish-British and Dutch-British
Age range: 20-30
Location: Thailand
Profession: Lookthung performers
Website: Jonas & Christy Official Site
Jonas and Christy, were you put in local Thai schools, or schools with more of an expat focus?
Jonas: During most of my early school years my family was living in upcountry Thailand [...]