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Please Vote: Lexiophiles Top 100 Language Learning Blogs 2010
Top 100 Language Learning Blogs 2010… Hi everyone. It’s that time of year again! Time to vote at Lexiophiles Top 100 Language Blogs 2010. Last year it was all excitement when WLT placed in their...
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Update 1: Expat’s Eye-witness Report: Ratchaprasong Resort
Here is a short update… At the moment we have power most of the time. There have been only a few blackouts so far. Mobile phone signal is off mostly and the internet signal is very unstable. Lots of...
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Jaideetv: From Thailand to the World
Heartfelt wishes to Thailand during these turbulent times… What a depressing month. Desperate to write about something positive (having had to cancel most of my planned posts), on Monday I sent the...
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Update 2: Expat’s Eye-witness Report: Ratchaprasong
A bit more worried than before… We are still ok! However now we are a bit more worried than before. The 19th was hell on earth. Once the leaders gave up all hell broke loose and there were heavy...
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Inciting Acts of Kindness: The SET Foundation
Giving back and RAKing sans sin… Christians are really big on the concept of sin. Also quite popular is the atoning for sins by doing good. Ok, for Catholics, the rosary is supposed to come into it,...
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Successful Thai Language Learners: Gareth Marshall
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Gareth Marshall Nationality: British Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Magazine editor Website: www.director-thailand.com...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: A Rose (กุหลาบ) by Any Other Name
A Rose (กุหลาบ /gù-làap/) by any other name… I find that place names in Thai are quite difficult to remember. Well, I should say that I find names of any kind difficult to remember and it isn’t just...
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Review: Learn Thai Podcast Relaunches!
Seeing Learn Thai Podcast anew… I ran into Jo and Jay years back, when they had a few choice Thai sound files on offer. It was a simple affair, and popular. They dropped out of sight to later reappear...
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Bangkok: I’m Getting the Last Word in Edgewise
Thinking about Thailand… I debated about writing this post because I don’t want WLT to be taken over by Thai politics. Also, my leanings are more towards history, with a preference towards reading...
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Interview: Luke Cassady-Dorion: Photographer and Linguist
Interview: Luke Cassady-Dorion the linguist… I never tire of reading about the language attributes of linguists. Luke, a talented photographer, just happens to be studying for a Bachelor’s Degree at...
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Backstage View into the Process of Creating a Thai Dictionary
Creating a Thai dictionary… Like most students of the Thai language, I keep adding to a list of Thai words I must know. It started out on a simple spread sheet with just the Thai word and the...
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Review: Three-Way Talking Thai Dictionary: Mac and PC
Paiboon’s Thai-English dictionary just keeps getting better… Being the book hound I am, when I first started learning Thai I bought every dictionary under my nose. Out of those, the dictionary found...
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Chris Pirazzi Updates Slice-of-Thai.com
Chris and Slice-of-Thai.com… A little over a year ago, I featured Chris Pirazzi at Slice-of-Thai.com. Back then, Chris and Benjawan Poomsan Becker had just released their New Thai & English...
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Rikker Dockum @ Bangkok Podcast
Rikker Dockum and the Bangkok Podcast… May was a crazy month for Bangkokians. No doubt. And while some of us were busy twitching through the political scuffles, Greg Jorgensen of GregToDiffer.com and...
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Successful Thai Language Learners: Doug
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Doug Nationality: American Age range: 50-60 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Computational linguistics Website: Sealang.net What is your...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Rosetta Stone Methodology
Rosetta Stone* Methodology… *After the stone and not the expensive software In her interviews of Thai speakers, Catherine likes to ask if we have ever had an “Ah ha” moment in our Thai studies. An “Ah...
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Total Cuteness: Learning the Thai Alphabet on YouTube
Learning the Thai Alphabet on YouTube… Clicking around YouTube, I came across new videos of Thai children practicing the Thai alphabet. The video below was so precious, I contacted Natcha to get...
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Hugh Launches eBooks in Thailand
Hugh’s Retired Life in Thailand… Hugh is an industrious individual. No doubt. Besides gardening (yes, I’m envious, very) he’s always working on new and intriguing projects. Although retired, he...
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Grokking the Thai Writing System Part 1: Consonants
Grokking the writing system by doing things youʼre not supposed to… Iʼve seen a lot of posts on this site about how learning the writing system is essential if you want to pronounce Thai correctly (it...
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Learn Thai Podcast: World Cup & Football Thai
World Cup & Football Thai… Are you following the World Cup on Thai TV? Do you understand what is being said, or are you watching with the sound turned off? For those who are confused and...
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