Women Learning Thai… and some men too ;-)

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Win Heart Talk and Sex Talk… Thanks to Kaewmala and Christopher G Moore, I’m sitting here with TWO hard copies each of their books (so four in total): Heart Talk and Sex Talk. Both are excellent. Totally. And in my reviews I share a heap of vocabulary to show you just how useful they are: [...]

How to gain insight into the Thai language from how Thais learn English… Having recently written a book (Tenses for Thais) designed to help native English speakers and Thais who wish to teach English to Thais, I received a friendship invitation from Ms Wentworth, whose roving eyes had detected my work. At her suggestion, I [...]

Review: The Linguist – How to learn a language… I know who Steve Kaufmann is. Sort of. A couple of times a year I stop by his blog, The Linguist, to see what he’s up to. But until lately I didn’t know the details of his method of choice. The reason? Because LingQ is not [...]

Booking a cultural Christmas… With exactly one week to go before Xmas, there is just enough time to shop for the Thai language learner in your life. And while these books are not about learning Thai, they are about Thailand. Equally important. About the list… I asked friends and forums for their favourite books on [...]

Resources for (mostly) entry-level learners… In the WLT Resources there’s a section dedicated to Learning Thai. Some resources are quite brilliant. Others are focused on smaller windows into Thai learning. Below are my personal favourites. Thai Language Learning sites: ITS4Thai Learn the Thai language with the Bangkok based e-learning company, ITS4Knowledge (free and paid). Langhub.com [...]

(Attention: เนื้อ หา ไม่ เหมาะ สม สำหรับ เด็ก content not suitable for children) I love that I can look a taxi driver right in the back of the neck while telling him to turn penis. Or even turn right. And that I can walk around for three years introducing myself as drunk, or Cat (short [...]

I absolutely love research. And with the ease of the Internet, I’m the resource queen. In this section you’ll find lists of dictionaries, books, blogs and websites. All focused on speaking Thai in Thailand, living in Thailand, getting around in Thailand, eating in Thailand. Anything and everything Thailand really. Well to a point (there be [...]

I have a number of resources on Thailand: books on history, language, culture, and gardening. Software and language learning courses, the lot. And some of what I have just might be of interest to you. I also have a ton of online resources for living in Thailand: websites, language learning software, blogs, products and such. [...]