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The Common Koel & Why I’d Make a Lousy Buddhist
The Common Koel and why I’d make a lousy Buddhist… Around November of last year a longtime member of my neighbourhood bird community, the Common Koel (lovingly known for his stealth gliding through...
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Thai Language School Review: Baan Aksorn
Thai Language School Review: Baan Aksorn Thai Language School… School: Baan Aksorn Telephone Number: 02-258-5617 or 02-662-3090 Mobile: 084-769-6449 Address: House #40 Sukhumvit Soi 33, Klongton Nua,...
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YouTube Thai Lessons: Ajarn Adam is Teaching Thai
Adam Bradshaw is well-known amongst Thais and intermediate Thai language students for his insightful English language videos on YouTube. And now Adam is now teaching Thai. Excellent. Most Thai...
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Thai Tales: Bananas, Papayas, and Angry Thai Feet
Thai Tales: Bananas, Papayas, and Angry Thai Feet… Last week I introduced a new section, Thai Tales. The first story introduced Mangoes, Mangosteen and Angry Thai Feet. In the comments Carsten pointed...
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Bangkok’s Top 50 Street Food Stalls. Food Poisoning. Bleeeech.
Food poisoning, the Bangkok street food way… After spending the past 12 hours hugging a toilet and worse, you could say that I have an up close and personal perspective on Bangkok’s street food. And...
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Thai Sex Talk for Valentine’s Day: Learning Thai Affirmations
Thai Sex Talk for Valentine’s Day: Learning Thai Affirmations… Thai Sex Talk on Valentine’s day has become a sweet tradition. It started back in 2010 with Thai Sex Talk for St Valentine’s Day. Then,...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Why Thai is Not a Monosyllabic Language
Why Thai is Not a Monosyllabic Language… I read lots of Thai language blogs and sometimes I come across comments about learning Thai that personally, I believe are way off the mark. They are often...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: Justin Travis Mair
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Justin Travis Mair Nationality: American Age range: 30 Sex: Male Location: New Zealand Profession: Student/Father/Receptionist Website/blog: I...
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Learn Thai by Speaking Your Language
Learn Thai by Speaking Your Language… How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. (insert laughs) I know this is a corny joke; however this joke holds the key to great success in language learning...
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Nootropics Update: Smart Drugs and Language Learning
Nootropics Update: Smart Drugs and Language Learning… It’s been almost two months since I wrote Nootropics: Smart Drugs and Language Learning. As I’m fielding a number of emails on the subject I...
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Android and iPhone: Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary Review
The Three Way Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary… Benjawan Poomsan Becker & Chris Pirazzi have been working around the clock (seriously) to give us the best Talking Thai-English-Thai dictionary...
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Thai Language School Review: AAA Thai
Thai Language School Review: AAA Thai… School: AAA Thai (Advance Alliance Academy Thai Language Center) Website: AAA Thai Telephone Number: 02-655-5629 Address: AAA Thai Language Center, 6th floor, 29...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Thai Abbreviations Can Help Us Learn Vocabulary,...
Thai Abbreviations Can Help Us Learn Vocabulary, Spelling and Pronunciation… One chief bugaboo that has plagued me in my endeavors to learn to read Thai is the numerous abbreviations scattered all...
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WIN! WIN! WIN! 3 Talking Thai–English–Thai Dictionary iPhone iPad iPod Apps
WIN! Talking Thai–English–Thai Dictionary iPhone, iPad, iPod App… Did you win a Three Way Talking Thai-English-Thai Dictionary app at Talen’s Thailand, Land of Smiles? No? Well, no need to give up yet...
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WINNERS of 3 Talking Thai–English–Thai Dictionary Apps
The WINNERS of the Talking Thai–English–Thai Dictionary Apps… Finally, the three winners of Chris and Benjawan’s Talking Thai–English–Thai Dictionary. Yeah! In order: Rob, Lawrence and Mike. If you...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: John Boegehold
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: John Boegehold Nationality: American Age: 55 Sex: Male Location: Los Angeles, CA USA Profession: Property management / songwriter-composer What is...
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Siem Reap. Cambodia. Again. Part One
Siem Reap, Cambodia… Siem Reap in Thai is pronounced in a slightly different way than you might be used to hearing: เสียมราฐ /sĭam râat/. And funny enough (but perhaps not to Thais), Siem Reap in...
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Siem Reap. Cambodia. Again. Part Two
Siem Reap, Cambodia… Carrying on from Siem Reap. Cambodia. Again. Part One… Snap (Cooee) and I have been leapfrogging Cambodian posts (but she’s far quicker off the mark). Onward to the Bayon and...
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Siem Reap. Cambodia. Again. Part Three
Siem Reap, Cambodia… As mentioned in Part One and Part Two, on my return to Siem Reap I revisited Viva’s nachos and ‘buckets’ of margaritas, Ankor Wat, Ankor Tom, and the heads of Bayon. A new (and...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: Scott Earle
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Scott Earle Nationality: British Age: 46 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: General Manager of a local software development company with a...
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