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Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Fabian Blandford (Phra Piyadhammo) Nationality: British/English Age range: 60 next year Sex: Male Location: Wat SriBunRuang, Fang, Chiangmai Profession: Theravada monk (Army retired) What is your Thai level? I would say Good to advanced. I do not consider myself fluent because I know my tones are not always correct [...]

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 [...]

Interview: Talen is getting by with learning Thai… Name: Timothy Bull ( Talen ) Nationality: American Age range: 45-45 soon to be 46-46 Sex: I like …Oh… errr… Male Location: Chonburi, Thailand ( Pattaya ) Profession: Construction Management, currently unemployed and finding my way Web: Thailand, Land of Smiles | Twitter: @landofsmiles What is your [...]

How many rainy seasons are you?… I was watching TV the other day and the announcer came on and told us that His Majesty the King was 83 พรรษา /pan-​sǎa/. I did a little guessing as we all need to do when picking up a foreign language and figured that they were telling us the [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Luke Cassady-Dorion Nationality: USA-ian Age range: 34 in May, which, by the Thai way of thinking, means that I start calling myself 34 now Sex: Male  Location: Bangkok Profession: Artist, Yoga teacher, Student, MC Website: LUKE.org | Goldenland Polyglot | Ok, it’s really not that hard to grok | [...]

Win Heart Talk and Sex Talk… Thanks to Kaewmala and Christopher G Moore, I’m sitting here with TWO hard copies each of their books (so four in total): Heart Talk and Sex Talk. Both are excellent. Totally. And in my reviews I share a heap of vocabulary to show you just how useful they are: [...]

A house is a home… In English the word “house” indicates a structure whereas “home” includes the idea that this is where you “live”, thus we have the song “A House is Not a Home”. But all my Thai dictionaries (I have 8 now) define “house” and “home” the same – บ้าน /bâan/ บ้าน /bâan/ [...]

Interview: Greg Jorgensen is getting by with Learning Thai… Name: Greg Jorgensen Nationality: Canadian Age range: 35 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Writer, podcaster, exporter of goodwill. Web: Greg to Differ | Bangkok Podcast | CNNgo | twitter: @bkkgreg What is your Thai level? Intermediate / Intermediate + / Intermediate ++ Sadly, somewhere just below [...]

Thai sunflowers don’t follow, they resist the sun… When running around Thailand with K.Pi and K.Ph, a small event will often take over our conversation. As I’m interested in learning about all things Thai, it usually involves a mix of Thai culture, history, and language. In our field before the perfect field adventure, this time [...]

Supermarkets in Thailand… If you are going to live in Thailand, one of the things you will find yourself doing is food shopping. When I first came to Thailand there were no such things as supermarkets. Now they are as ubiquitous as Thailand’s outdoor markets. They may not be as much fun or as exciting [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Nils Bastedo Nationality: United States and Sweden Age: 39 Sex: Male Location: Arkansas, USA Profession: Currently a martial arts instructor Website: Lstk Products: Book – Tenses for Thais only in e-format as of today, but I hope for hardcopy versions as soon as questions concerning distribution can be resolved. [...]

Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Grace Robinson Thai nickname: Luk Gate, ลูกเกด Nationality: English/British Age: 24 Sex: Female Location: Bangkok Profession: Postgraduate student Website: graceinasia What is your Thai level? I’m not exactly sure, but I’d say it’s around advanced intermediate. Do you speak more street Thai, Issan Thai, or professional Thai? I was [...]

Polyglot, a Google Chrome Extension… One of the keys to learning a language is exposure. It stands to reason that the more opportunities you create for exposure to the language you are learning the more effective, and ultimately more rewarding, the learning process will be for you. In Thailand there are loads of ways to [...]

The Tower of Confusion and Smart.fm… The Tower of Confusion discusses language learning. If you have the time, cruise through Edwin’s Learning Tips or see what he has to say about Stuart Jay Raj. In Edwin’s post, The Most Effective Way to Learn Hiragana, I was reminded once again about Smart.fm. One nice thing about [...]