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Watching Educational Thai TV on YouTube… The many ways to learn Thai thrills me. On top of course books and online Thai lessons, there is YouTube, iTunes and all the iProducts (iPhone, iPod, iPod Touch, iPad, etc), recording devices, video software, and… what else? As I no longer have a teenager in the house my [...]

Active Learning vs Passive Learning… I’ve been learning languages by myself since I was 13. As an experienced self-learner, I came to the conclusion that there is no one best method, but there are some universal principles one can stick to and which I think should be shared for the benefit of those who really [...]

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 [...]

Fancy your next Thai lesson on ‘Speed Metal Thai’? On how glass bottles are made? Fashion tips? A visit to the Bangkok Seashell Museum? Cooking sessions? Looking graffiti artists over the shoulder? Yes? Then stay put! Automatic Language Growth… The way children acquire their native tongue is perfect: it always results in fluency. Automatic Language [...]

Luca Lampariello’s language learning method… To refresh your memory of Luca’s previous post, An Easy Way to Learn Foreign Languages: Part One, here are the main points of his language learning method: The timeframe of the method is: Quality, then quantity. The method is based upon a strategy of: Often, natural, and sà-nùk. The strategy [...]

Introducing Luca and his language learning method… Luca Lampariello is an Italian polyglot who speaks 9 languages: Italian, English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Russian, and Portuguese. Chinese is his latest language project, and learning to speak Thai is a real possibility! When Luca was barely in his teens (13), he began studying languages on [...]

Ah, to have the insecurities of a kid again… When I was fourteen, I moved from the glorious New Zealand to the enormous U.S. The U.S. was too strange, too big, too shiny new. Worse, I did not assimilate. My experiences were not the same as my classmates, leaving me the outsider. Dense and awkward [...]

Presenting… Chris Baker… Disclaimer: I don’t advise anyone to replicate this method. I’ve never had a single Thai lesson. By the time I started to learn Thai, I was already 30. I was conscious of having been trained by the British schooling system to learn languages (French, German, Russian) which I could never really use. [...]

Methods. Stops and Starts. Moving to the Island of Borneo in ’94, Thailand became a yearly destination. After falling in love with the Thai countryside, the Thai people, and the hottest food in the world, eventually building a house in Changmai was a real possibility. With this in mind (but knowing I had scads of [...]

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. [...]