Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

The top 39 Thai words you must know, extracted from pop music… Language lists can be wonderful things. Remember when you searched for the top ten Thai phrases to memorise? Or the four polite to down right eyebrow raising ways to say hello in Thai? Or what about the three words you must never ever [...]

Karn.TV: A FREE education resource for Thai kids… and me… Karn.TV is a fun educational site for Thai kids. It has lessons for English, maths, science, art, music, crafts, sports, pets, and Thai. In the art section you can paint and learn how to draw (funny sounds are included). In the science section you are [...]

12 FREE Manee books online… When you get over your fear of Thai script and start learning to read, the Manee books (sometimes spelt Maanii) are often recommended. Long discontinued, the Manee books were written back in the late ’70′s by รัชนี ศรีไพรวรรณ (Ratchanee Sripaiwan) with a team from the Thai Ministry of Education. And [...]

The Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary draw…… Chris and Benjawan’s Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary is such a fabulous product to give away. And readers at WLT were gifted with two. To keep the draw manageable, I followed the simple method in Teach Yourself Thai Complete. Both of them. Amy Praphantanathorn (Expat Women in Thailand) folded numbered [...]

Look who’s talking about learning Thai… Welcome to the first roundup of bloggers, twitter peeps, and podcasters talking about the Thai language. But before I get started, a thanks goes to Martyn at Beyond The Mango Juice for giving me the idea, and Camille at Samui Weather for joining in on the fun. WLT is [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Where to find Skype teachers… Teaching Thai via Skype is a growing industry. And learning languages via Skype is ideal because the students don’t need to be in the same exact location as their teachers. They can reside in the same city (like I do), or live on different continents. Being in different countries means [...]

The magic of learning Thai via Skype… Disclaimer: Having a series about learning Thai via Skype wouldn’t be complete unless I jumped in as well. I know that. But I was a bit leery about sharing my experiences because I didn’t want to swamp Khun Narisa, my Thai Skype teacher. But after hearing that a [...]