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Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: The Double อยู่
The Thai Language’s Double อยู่… To help you learn Thai, for the first Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary post we wanted to start with something a little more interesting than simple subject + verb...
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FREE DRAW: James Higbies’ Essential Thai and Thai Reference Grammar
FREE DRAW! James Higbies’ Essential Thai AND Thai Reference Grammar… Someone is going to get lucky soon. Originally, the prize for this draw was to be a signed copy of Essential Thai by James Higbie....
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WINNER: James Higbies’ Essential Thai and Thai Reference Grammar
WINNER: James Higbies’ Essential Thai AND Thai Reference Grammar… The lucky winner of Essential Thai and Thai Reference Grammar is …. Lawrence Michaels from Thailand Holiday Travel! Lawrence, if you...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: David Fahey
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: David Fahey Nationality: British Age range: 30-40 Sex: Male Location: UK Profession: Management Consultant What is your Thai level? I can converse...
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Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Double อยู่ Sounds
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Double อยู่ Sounds… As promised, the sound files to the Double อยู่ post…. Did you notice at the top of this post where it says “by Cat & Hugh”? Well, that’s...
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2013: The Fifth Google Translate Challenge
Google Translate, the challenge… Here we are, the fifth Google Translate Challenge! To recap: In 2009 I ran two sets of Thai phrases through Google Translate. I shared one list online and the other I...
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PickUpThai: Colloquial Thai Compound Words
Colloquial Thai Compound Words… Word you know + Word you know = Word you probably don’t know! It’s me again, Yuki Tachaya (from Pick up Thai), a professional private Thai teacher who loves to teach...
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The Farang Thai Song (aka The 5552)!
The Farang Thai Song (aka The 5552)!… Back in March there was that really cute YouTube video by Maggie Rosenberg, I Don’t Speak Thai But I Try. And now we have the pleasure of … [drum roll] … The...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Thai Roots
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 usually find that if I can learn a new word in some kind of context it...
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Taking Private Lessons? Who Should Your Teacher Be?
Taking Private Lessons? Who Should Your Teacher Be?… After noticing a survey that declared that Swedes are the best learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Catherine asked me for my...
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GINORMOUS List of iOS Apps to Learn Thai: iPhone, iPad and iPod
List of Thai Learning Apps for Your iPhone, iPad and iPod… Welcome to my addiction – iOS apps for learning Thai. I started collecting iOS apps back in 2009, when I bought my first iPhone 3G. By 2010...
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Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Adjective Patterns
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Adjective Patterns… Adjectives are words that describe nouns. Thai and English treat adjectives a bit differently. The word order is different. English uses...
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Please Vote to add Thai Language to LingQ!
Please Vote to add the Thai Language to LingQ… We need your help getting Thai on LingQ. At present, LingQ supports about 10 languages including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, but not Thai. The first...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: Ruedi Seiler
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Ruedi Seiler Nationality: Swiss Age: 29 Sex: male Location: Switzerland/Thailand Profession: Scientist (Geography, Dendrochronology), Diving...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?
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 thought it was time to comment a little more on the cultural side...
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Re-Introducing FLTR + the Thai Text Reader
FLTR + Thai Text Reader… Goodness have we ever been busy. As soon as the post Please Vote to add Thai Language to LingQ! hit the stands, Scott Smith, programmer Rick Bradford, and myself starting...
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Sample Sentences in Thai Dictionaries
Sample Sentences in Thai Dictionaries… While reviewing Thai dictionary apps for my series, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Apps, I came across a subject that needed clarification: sample sentences in...
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Written Sound: Onomatopoeic Words in the Thai Language
Written Sound: Onomatopoeic words in the Thai language… Learning about onomatopoeic words in the Thai language has been quite the experience. It all started when @babla tweeted a link to the video...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Asking for Directions in Thailand
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 ThaiVisa.com, Speaking Thai in Thailand is Useless. The poster...
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Music for Studying Foreign Languages
Music for studying foreign languages… Listening to Baroque music has long been touted as cure-all for studying languages. Some even go as far as to say that listening to Mozart improves the quality of...
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