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The Red Shirts in Bangkok: The Faces of Day Two

The Red Shirts in Bangkok: The Faces of Day Two

Day two of the Red Shirts in Bangkok… Well. Well. I’ve had a huge splash of visitors in the past several hours. Welcome to WLT everyone. To those coming in new, I am not a journalist. Or even a proper photographer. I’m just an expat in Bangkok who happens to have a camera. Or three. [...]

A Thai Learning Thai

A Thai Learning Thai

This Thai learning Thai… Unfortunately there was no mystical transference or osmosis of language from mother to womb. So I am an American born woman who is ironically half Thai and half Chinese. Ironically because my ethnic makeup is very Thai, something I learned when I moved here as an adult. There are many Thai-Chinese [...]

Survey: Expats Love Thailand, but the Thai Language Loses Out

Survey: Expats Love Thailand, but the Thai Language Loses Out

No surprise, Thailand comes top for love… The latest HSBC report was emailed to me just this morning (thanks Lana :-) Expats fall in love with Thailand but not the language. Putting Thailand aside for now… I was not surprised to find that the UK’s scores were low, but I was surprised at how low [...]