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The Interpreter’s Journal: Studying Foreign Languages… In the hopes that my journey will help those of you learning Thai, I’m sharing tips on studying foreign languages. Btw – If you’ve missed the first two installments you can get them here: The Interpreter’s Journal: How it Started and Mistakes and Misinterpretations. My leap into learning languages… [...]

Teaser: The Interpreter’s Journal… In the first installment you read about my beginnings: The Interpreter’s Journal: How it Started. And now I’ll share a window into what it’s like to be an interpreter. The Interpreter’s Journal: Mistakes and Misinterpretations… When an interpreter is working to convey one person’s words into another language, there are many [...]

Teaser: The Interpreter’s Journal… Most people know me as an author of Thai and Lao language learning products. But in the United States I also have a flourishing career as a legal and medical Thai and Lao interpreter. And at long last, I’ve put down the story in my latest book, The Interpreter’s Journal. In [...]

iPhone App: Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary… Last year I reviewed the Three-Way Talking Thai Software Dictionary by Chris Pirazzi and Benjawan Poomsan Becker. I ended the post with: Ah, before I go… coming next from Chris and Benjawan is an iPhone version of the Three-Way Talking Thai Dictionary. And you can better bet that I’ll be [...]

Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary… In September Chris and Benjawan gifted readers at WLT with two of their new software dictionaries, so I announced them with a draw: Win a FREE Thai-English English-Thai Software Dictionary. Amy Praphantanathorn (Expat Women in Thailand) and Talen (Thailand Land of Smiles) did the honours (thanks you two!) The lucky winners [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Learning the Thai language with Benjawan… It is an undisputed fact that Benjawan Poomsan Becker of Paiboon Publishing is the top producer of Thai language products. With that jewel in mind… while I was working on the Benjawan Poomsan Becker Interview, I came up with a way to show just how proliferate she is. Not [...]

Learning Thai with Benjawan… What do I think of when I hear the name Benjawan Poomsan Becker? My mind immediately goes to her wide range of Thai learning products: Thai for Beginners, Thai for Intermediate Learners, Thai for Advanced Readers, Practical Thai Conversation 1&2, Speak Like a Thai 1-6, Thai for Lovers, Thai for Gay [...]