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Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Hamish Chalmers Nationality: British Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male  Location: Bangkok Profession: EAL Faculty Head Website/blog: Tweet Yourself Thai Twitter: @AjarnPasa What is your Thai level? In the language world we have two basic benchmarks between no language and full fluency. These are BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) and CALPs [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Andrew Biggs Nationality: Australian Age range: Mid-twenties. Oh allright, 47. Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Writer, TV producer, Tv and radio emcee, school owner … you name it Website/blog: www.andrewbiggs.com Products (books, courses etc): Too many to mention What is your Thai level? That depends on how much sleep [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Ian Fereday Nationality: British Age: 50 next month (oh dear!) Sex: Male Location: Phuket Town, Phuket Profession: Semi-retired owner of Patong Language School Website: phuket-languageschool.com | study-thai-online.com | teflplus.com Products: Commenced studies at Patong Language School using the Ministry of Education series produced for Thai children studying in primary [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Doug Nationality: American Age range: 50-60 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Computational linguistics Website: Sealang.net What is your Thai level: Intermediate/Advanced/Fluent or a combo? Combo Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? Semi-pro. What were your reasons for learning Thai? Living here, wanted to fully [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Gareth Marshall Nationality: British Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Magazine editor Website: www.director-thailand.com What is your Thai level? All a bit mixed up, really. Overall I’d say intermediate, although I practice writing rarely, if ever. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Martin Clutterbuck Nationality: British Age range: 40-50 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: PR Website/blog: Siamese Cats: Legends and Reality Book: The Legend of Siamese Cats What is your Thai level? Fluent, but shy of bilingual Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? Early on, I [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Stuart (Stu) Jay Raj Nationality: Fijian Indian / Australian Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Anywhere and Everywhere Profession: TV Host / Cross Cultural Business Consultant   Web: Stu Jay Raj stujaystujay’s YouTube Channel Note: As this is the final post of a three part interview, some of the [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Herb Purnell Nationality: American Age range: 70+ Sex: Male Location: Currently in Chiangrai March to mid-April 2010, then Bangkok to the end of August, then to the U.S. Profession: Retired from university teaching in applied linguistics but still active in field language projects in Thailand. Current projects include producing [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Celia Chessin-Yudin Nationality: American Age range: 20-30 Sex: Female Location: Mahachai, Samut Sakhon, Thailand Profession: Working at an NGO What is your Thai level? I would say I am at an advanced Thai level. Though not fluent yet. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Stickman Nationality: New Zealander Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Teacher Website: StickmanBangkok.com What is your Thai level? I guess I would say I am Advanced. I don’t consider myself fluent because to me that means you can talk about absolutely anything in great detail with anyone. [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Thomas Lamosse Nationality: American, Edina, Minnesota Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok, Chonburi, Edina Minnesota Profession: Teacher/PhD student-Phonology Website/blog: Talk-2-Me-Thai Book/course: Talk-2-me-Thai DVD phrasebook What is your Thai level? I will let you decide. I never boast about my language skills. Do you speak more street Thai, Issaan [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Vern Lovic Nationality: USA Age: 43 Sex: Male Location: Surat, Thailand Profession: Internet marketing, writing, web development Website/blog: Thailand eBooks ThaiPulse.com/blog JoysThaiFood.com AimforAwesome.com YouTube: thaipulsedotcom (160 Thailand videos) What is your Thai level? It ranges from comfortable to very uncomfortable. It’s all in how the conversation goes really. There [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Colin Cotterill Nationality: British Age range: 50-60 Sex: Male Location: Chumphon, Thailand Profession: Writer Website: Colin cotterill Blog: International Crime Authors Reality Check What is your Thai level? Advanced. I’m not even fluent in English yet. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? Although I’m [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Jonathan Thames 
Nationality: Third Culture Kid; USA citizen 
Age range: 20-30 
Sex: Male 
Location: Monterey, CA / Chiang Mai / other places 
Profession: MPA Student 


What is your Thai level? Let’s say “Advanced” because I am generally proficient and got into “Advanced Language Study” at my current school (Monterey Institute [...]