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Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Daniel B Fraser Nationality: Canadian Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok, Thailand Profession: Travel Company Owner, TV Host Web: Smiling Albino, Facebook: Daniel B Fraser , YouTube: Smiling Albino Interview: Bangkok Podcast Thai Language Series: Daniel Fraser What is your Thai level? Combo of Intermediate and Advanced, with [...]

Thai reading project: learn Thai with SpeedUpTV + AUA Thai… I’ve got some exciting news. I love the AUA Thai language videos. They are great fun as well as packed with Thai vocabulary and phrases to learn. And here’s the exciting news. Awhile back I got a wild hair about reading along with the AUA [...]

HouseTalk: Learn Thai washer and dryer phrases… The last laundry post focused on mostly useful laundry phrases. It also introduced Thai manners and a few more things such as do not and must. Amongst the laundry phrases in this post you’ll find the difference between can’t, don’t, and forbidden. And you’ll soon see that the [...]

Giveaway: Reading Thai + Reading Thai Words and Sentences… This giveaway is not going how I’d planned. Apologies, but getting sick right after landing back in Thailand totally messed up my intentions. So I now need to be creative or these free codes will be lost forever. That’s right. Promotional codes have an expiration date [...]

The EIGHT winners of the Thai for Beginners iPad iPhone iPod App… When I announced this draw there were six free apps. And now there are eight. We have Benjawan Becker from Paiboon Publishing to thank for both treats (and more). Thanks Benjawan, I know there will be many happy Thai language learners after this [...]

The Thai for Beginners iPad iPhone iPod App: Six Apps to Win… I just love giving away free apps. This is my second Thai for Beginners app giveaway. You can read about the first giveaway (review included) here: Thai for Beginners iPhone App: Four Apps to Win. As you can see, I was hoping the [...]

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 [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Rick Bradford Nationality: Australian Age range: 40-50 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Publishing What is your Thai level? Very unbalanced. At some aspects, especially to do with reading and translating, perhaps Advanced; at others, such as round-table conversations, probably still Basic++. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, [...]

HouseTalk: Introduction to the laundry section… If you are a gal a percentage of the chats with your Thai housekeeper will focus on the care of your laundry. And if you don’t, you just might find yourself with an eye-raising wardrobe. If you are a guy, well, I’m not a guy so I don’t have [...]

Read More THAI or Die… Andrej from Bakunin learns Thai recently reminded me that the registration for the Tadoku challenge, Read More or Die, is now open for July. From Read More or Die… The three basic Tadoku principles: Read without using a dictionary. If you can’t read it without using a dictionary, read something [...]

Interview: Dan Ogilvie is getting by in Thai… Name: Dan Ogilvie Nationality: British Age range: 53 Sex: Male Location: Saraburi, Thailand Profession: Electronic Engineer Web: Dan and Ploy’s website What is your Thai level? Intermediate / Intermediate + / Intermediate ++ I don’t think I would class myself as intermediate yet. The trouble is being [...]

So you have a Thai maid. Yeah! Now what?… Thailand, like the majority of SE Asia, has a deeply embedded culture of employing house help. Housekeepers, cooks, gardeners, nannies and drivers are a normal part of the daily fabric of life out here. My cherished Filipina amah in Borneo even had a maid back home. [...]

Kinship terms for Thai housekeepers, nannies, drivers, and more… In the last post, What Do You Call Your Thai Housekeeper?, we learned about alternative names for maids in Thailand. During the research, Sarawan (The Parent Vine, Thailand) and I engaged in a discussion about the different terms used for not only housekeepers but drivers, cooks, [...]

What do you call your maid?… When I lived in Japan I was just a short bit of stuff. It was too long ago to remember what our maid was called so I asked someone who would know: Tony Joh from thai-faq.com. Tony informed me that maid in Japanese is either ote or kaseifu. Nice [...]