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Adam Bradshaw is well-known amongst Thais and intermediate Thai language students for his insightful English language videos on YouTube. And now Adam is now teaching Thai. Excellent. Most Thai learners know me as an English teacher because most of my material on the Internet is made for Thais learning English. However, many intermediate/advanced Thai learners [...]

Thai Tales: Mango’s, Mangosteen and Angry Thai Feet… My good friend Khun Phairoh, giggling away, told me a cute story this weekend and I just had to share it with you. Here you go… (and may there be many more). A tourist in Bangkok stops at a fruit stall along a crowded footpath. Wanting to [...]

Smart Drugs and Language Learning… Smart Drugs. Yes. And with the recent news about Thailand clamping down on rock star Sek Loso’s drug habit, DRUGS being supported on a Thai language site might come as a surprise. But here’s the thing. It’s no secret that my main aim is to find the best methods and [...]

Outing the Energy – Thai Learning Techniques… As I promised last time, today I want to share exercises I use to improve my reading and writing. If you haven’t gotten around to studying reading and writing yet I know exactly how you feel. I went for about 20 years thinking that simply speaking Thai was [...]

Outing the Energy – Thai Learning Techniques… Unless you are someone who picks up languages by simply breathing, like the famed English explorer Sir Richard Burton, then your journey to becoming fluent in Thai will be a long, hard (but in my opinion, enjoyable) struggle. Wikipedia tells us that By the end of his life, [...]

Saying adieu to Bangkok Podcast… Yup. A shocker-roonie. The wonderful Thai language resource Bangkok Podcast is closing its doors (for now). But even though Bangkok Podcast will not be updated in the near future, it will continue to be available for students of Thai. And that’s a good thing from my end, because I haven’t [...]

Doraemon Comics in Thai… In the last Successful Thai Language Learner’s interview, Rick Bradford’s mention of reading Doraemon Comics in Thai go me interested so I contacted him for more: The Doraemon comics are a good way to get a first foot on the ladder of reading Thai. They’re aimed at children, so the vocabulary [...]

Miscommunicating with your Thai housekeeper… Have you been to your High Commission or Embassy lately? I have. I won’t say it was a treat, but it was certainly an eyebrow raiser. Did you happen to notice their counter windows? You know, the ones similar to those found in banks? The windows work the same but [...]

The Thai Challenge PLUS The 6 Week Challenge… Once again Josh reminded me about the Read More or Die Challenge. But what really cranked me up was a mention of the 6 Week Language Challenge started by how-to-learn-any-language.com. If anyone is interested in participating in a challenge to starting to learn a new language check [...]

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 [...]

How do you focus on learning Thai?.. During the past week my Internet connection has been getting weaker, to the point that I could no longer code. And I had a big, fat, overdue post to finish this weekend, the February edition of ‘Who’s Talking About Learning Thai’. Ouch. But it’s not just the posts [...]

Getting by With Learning Thai… To get a steady stream of interviews for the Successful Thai Language Learners series I have to contact a lot of people. Some do come via recommendations or walk-ins, but not all. The majority I contact politely decline, stating that they are not successful enough. And that’s when I started [...]