Thai Language Thai Culture: The Why? Series
Book Review – The Why? Series… To many people, the search for the holy grail of learning to read Thai is finding a book that … Read more
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Book Review – The Why? Series… To many people, the search for the holy grail of learning to read Thai is finding a book that … Read more
How I Taught Myself to Read Thai… As many of you know I began reading Thai long after I was speaking it. Even though I … Read more
Detours in Becoming Fluent in Spoken Thai… In my experience, the best language learners are people who love to talk and listen. They are quite … Read more
“Tieow” Like a Thai… We had to get away from Chiang Mai during this ridiculously hot spell and after the madness of Songkran (for which … Read more
A “G” Rated Look at Thai Sex Words… Thai, like any other robust language, has lots and lots of words for “sex” and all the … Read more
Non-Synonymous Synonyms… As often happens, a mistake I made in speaking Thai has led me to thinking about things to share with our readers. In … Read more
Thai Words for This Time of Political Unrest… Things in Thailand have warmed up once again (not talking about the weather this time) and a … Read more
Asking for Directions in Thailand… After my last post, Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?, I received an interesting link to a posting on … Read more
Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?… Since I have been submitting a bit of grammar in the series Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary, I … Read more
Thai Roots… I am always looking for new ways to learn Thai vocabulary so that this ancient brain of mine can retain new words. I … Read more
Pain and Suffering… My last post was about dental vocabulary. To keep me believing in the concept of Synchronicity, after finishing my post I broke … Read more
Dental Office Vocabulary… We just went to see our dentist. Everything is good with me, but my wife needs lots of work (we blame it … Read more