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Recording Thai Lessons With a SnowBall
I’ve got recording (mostly) sussed… I finally read all the way through the instructions to my SnowBall, so in this post you’ll get the basics for recording your own Thai too. Whether it’s for your Thai lessons, or a SLR, or a few Thai words here and there. What I use to record… Mic: SnowBall [...]
The Easy Way for Beginners to Read and Write Thai
I’m all for the easy way out… Learning how to read Thai is often a stumbling block for students of the Thai language. Some students have opted to forgo the pleasure. Others have stops and starts. Then there are those who soar through all with ease (and those, we admire through clinched teeth). I’m of [...]
Top Thai Language Learning Resources
Resources for (mostly) entry-level learners… In the WLT Resources there’s a section dedicated to Learning Thai. Some resources are quite brilliant. Others are focused on smaller windows into Thai learning. Below are my personal favourites. Thai Language Learning sites: ITS4Thai Learn the Thai language with the Bangkok based e-learning company, ITS4Knowledge (free and paid). Langhub.com [...]
What I Love About the Thai Language
(Attention: เนื้อ หา ไม่ เหมาะ สม สำหรับ เด็ก content not suitable for children) I love that I can look a taxi driver right in the back of the neck while telling him to turn penis. Or even turn right. And that I can walk around for three years introducing myself as drunk, or Cat (short [...]
My Thai Language Experience
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 [...]
Reviews: Introduction
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. [...]
Thai Language: The Introduction
Learning any language is difficult for first timers. Learning a tonal language makes it doubly so. Well, that’s what I tell myself anyway. From my research, apparently I’m more of a visual learner than anything else. And no good telling me to just jump in there and converse, I also need to own what I’m [...]
