Comments on: Successful Thai Language Learner: David Long

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Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:19:12 +0000

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Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:04:20 +0000

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By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:07:21 +0000

Hi Chris. Welcome. This particular natural method (developed by Dr. Brown) is quite a big deal in the West. I have not experienced it yet, but I do intend to.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:55:35 +0000

Very interesting thank you, although not learning Thai I am interested in natural methods. Based on my own admittedly limited experience weakness in translation is a consequence of learning naturally and not a problem, I am sure that if somebody wished they could always add translation skill after mastery of the language but this is probably a separate discipline.

I find even simple Chinese phrases that I hear and understand without thinking very hard to translate neatly into English if somebody ask me.

By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:14:04 +0000

Talen – I know what you mean. Listening to Thai as much as possible does amazing things when it comes to understanding speaking, as well as reading.

When will you be back in Thailand? This year? During the holidays?

Keith – it’s not the Thai script that is difficult, it is the tones. What learning the Thai script does for you is give you a leap into hearing the tones properly.

Martyn – thanks. I’ve been rather lucky in my requests for interviews.

Btw – David Long is with AUA, and it might be a program that would interest you. To give you a taste of how it works, next week I’ll post on the subject.

‘There is currently a Bangkok Ladyboy Show touring Britain’

Goodness! I can just imagine what kind of reception they would get in the UK. They’d be hilarious, for sure :-D

By: Martyn

Martyn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:44:17 +0000

Catherine how do you continue to pull off these amazing interviews with these gifted people. There is currently a Bangkok Ladyboy Show touring Britain and I emailed them with a few questions for a post I wanted to do. So far….absolutely nothing, not even a bloody refusal has come back to me, I’m rather disappointed to say the least. What’s your secret.

David you make it all appear so simple although your admitting of a weakness in translation does give us all hope that you are a mere mortal and if you can learn Thai then so can we. As with Catherine’s Thai 101 post the learning of reading and writing skills is prominent in your history as well. I really do believe that this is the road I must make my way down or perhaps a better way to put it is the mountain I must climb up. Best wishes.