Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Luke Cassady-Dorion Nationality: USA-ian Age range: 34 in May, which, by the Thai way of thinking, means that I start calling myself 34 now Sex: Male  Location: Bangkok Profession: Artist, Yoga teacher, Student, MC Website: LUKE.org | Goldenland Polyglot | Ok, it’s really not that hard to grok | [...]

Interview: Greg Jorgensen is getting by with Learning Thai… Name: Greg Jorgensen Nationality: Canadian Age range: 35 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Writer, podcaster, exporter of goodwill. Web: Greg to Differ | Bangkok Podcast | CNNgo | twitter: @bkkgreg What is your Thai level? Intermediate / Intermediate + / Intermediate ++ Sadly, somewhere just below [...]

Getting by With Learning Thai… To get a steady stream of interviews for the Successful Thai Language Learners series I have to contact a lot of people. Some do come via recommendations or walk-ins, but not all. The majority I contact politely decline, stating that they are not successful enough. And that’s when I started [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Nils Bastedo Nationality: United States and Sweden Age: 39 Sex: Male Location: Arkansas, USA Profession: Currently a martial arts instructor Website: Lstk Products: Book – Tenses for Thais only in e-format as of today, but I hope for hardcopy versions as soon as questions concerning distribution can be resolved. [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Grace Robinson Thai nickname: Luk Gate, ลูกเกด Nationality: English/British Age: 24 Sex: Female Location: Bangkok Profession: Postgraduate student Website: graceinasia What is your Thai level? I’m not exactly sure, but I’d say it’s around advanced intermediate. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? I was [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learner: Aaron Le Boutillier… Name: Aaron Le Boutillier Nationality: British Age: 40 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Security Consultant Website: Le Boutillier Group Products: Women’s Self Defense, Hijack Management, Disruptive Passenger Management and Law Enforcement Training What is your Thai level? Intermediate. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or [...]

Thais Learning Thai… This is part 2 of 2 absolutely fabulous posts. If you landed here first, you might want to head over to Part 1: Thais Learning Thai: Kaewmala from Thai Talk. Part 2: Kaewmala from Thai Talk… As a native Thai speaker learning Thai, how do you go about it? Probably in a [...]

Thais Learning Thai… When I took Stu Jay Raj’s Cracking Thai Fundamentals workshop, also attending were a whole lot of guys and one Thai gal. The Thai lass was born in Thailand, adopted away by Australians, and then raised without knowledge of her birth language. She came into Stu’s class at full western volume, and [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Ryan Zander Nationality: American Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Yokohama, Japan Profession: Teacher, podcast host, app developer Website/blog: thaipod101.com, Nagaraja Rivers Products: Thai language learning podcasts at thaipod101.com, Reading Thai and Read Thai Alphabet iPhone apps What is your Thai level? I’ll say “conversational”. My vocabulary is still [...]

Peter Lo on Stu’s Cracking Thai Fundamentals… This month polyglot Stu Jay Raj arrived in Bangkok to give his Cracking Thai Fundamentals workshop. To give you some idea of what goes on, I asked several attendees to share their experiences. Scott Eddy went first, Claudio Sennhauser second, and now Peter follows. Peter, how do you [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]