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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 [...]

Word order in Thai “Wh” Questions… It is common for beginning students of Thai (or students of most foreign languages for that matter) to start off making sentences and answering the teacher’s questions. In fact, quite often the art of ASKING questions is frequently left to much later, and sometimes is forgotten altogether. This is [...]

Google Translate, the challenge… In 2009 I ran two sets of Thai phrases through Google Translate. One I shared and one I kept to myself. Here’s the first set: 2009: The First Google Translate Challenge. In 2010 I reran both sets of Thai phrases through Google Translate. I also created another set to keep to [...]

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, [...]

Learning Thai via the iPad… Like a gazillion other people I bought an iPad 2 as soon as they reached Thailand. Since my purchase I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play with my new toy. Apologies Scott! But I seriously intend to. Just as soon as I can clear room (which will [...]

Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly… I have often heard the advice given to people just learning how to read, that they should practice reading Thai street signs. That made me think, why not collect pictures of a bunch of real signs and compile them into a fun practice reader? Since I am always looking for projects [...]

Chuvit: The Angry Man… The Thai press is calling Chuvit the colour of the election: สีสัน การ เลือกตั้ง /sĕe-săn gaan lêuak-dtâng/. And comparing Chuvit to the other candidates, who can argue? Chuvit is colourful, dramatic, and evocative. In your face even. So it’s no surprise that Chuvit’s powerful posters are the talk of the town. [...]

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 [...]

Does Written Thai Need Spaces? Not! I recently read a post titled Reforming Thai Language Structure which advocated changing the Thai written language by adding spaces between words to make written Thai easier to read. The writer mentions that written Thai is a “scriptura continua” language, one that does not use spaces between words. He goes [...]

Spicing up your life Thai-style… There is a basic difference between the philosophy behind western food and Thai food. Back home, a cook will make a dish the way it “should” be made. One may add to a dish by shaking a bit of salt and maybe a dash of pepper but if you want [...]

Interview: Tod Daniels is getting by in Thai… Name: Tod Daniels Nationality: USA Age range: 52 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok, Lower Sukhumvit Profession: Retired Web: Reviewing Thai Language Schools in Bangkok What is your Thai level? Intermediate / Intermediate + / Intermediate ++ I’d like to think my Thai is at least at an “Intermediate [...]

Interview: Snap is getting by in Thai… Name: Snap Nationality: Australian Age range: 48 Sex: Female Location: Now, Chiang Mai, usually, Brisbane, Australia Profession: Office administration and self-employed chalk sign artist Web: Learning Thai In Chiang Mai | Cooee | twitter: @SnapCooee What is your Thai level? Intermediate / Intermediate + / Intermediate ++ Intermediate, [...]

How to show up and study Thai… Taylor Lindstrom has a Copyblogger post that could work equally well for learning Thai: How to show up and write. Only, put successful language learner instead of writer. And for write, put study. So it’d be like this: Ask any successful language learner how to study, and they [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Adam Bradshaw Nationality: American Age: 25 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: English Teacher, entrepreneur Web: YouTube: jadambrad and winkwinkenglish | Twitter: @AjarnAdam | Facebook: ajarnadam Interviews: Bangkok Podcast Adam Bradshaw | The Nation: It’s all in the language for Adam and Aj.Adam Bradshaw What is your Thai level? I [...]