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Thai Language Thai Culture: “Tieow” Like a Thai
“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 we stayed at home for four days). So Pikun and I decided to take...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: Daniel Whitehouse
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Daniel Whitehouse Nationality: British Age range: 26 Sex: Male Location: Bangkok Profession: Teacher and occasional TV presenter Website: No...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: Bettina Friedrich
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Bettina (Thai Name: Mina) Nationality: German (western) Age: 26 Sex: Female Location: Bangkok Profession: Student Youtube: ฝรั่ง ป๊อก ป๊อก...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Detours in Becoming Fluent in Spoken Thai
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 often story tellers, raconteurs, writers, journalists,...
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Please Vote THAI: Top 100 Language Lovers of 2014
Voting commences for the Top 100 Language Lovers… Often when there’s a Top 100 Language Lovers competition, Thailand has a political or natural disaster, or both. Just on time, and after recovering...
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Alif Silpachai: Easy Thai YouTube Series
Alif Silpachai: Easy Thai YouTube Series… Alif Silpachai. Grad student (linguistics). Translator (Thai-English English-Thai). And host of the entertaining yet educational Easy Thai series on YouTube...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Reading Lessons and Vocabulary Building
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 had a good vocabulary I had never seen these words written before. After learning...
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Top 100 Language Lovers Competition: 2014 Results
The Top 100 Language Lovers Competition for 2014 has ended… Here’s a huge THANK YOU from me, to everyone who voted this year. I also want to thank guest writers Hugh Leong and Tod Daniels, who balance...
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Book Review: ๕,๐๐๐ สำนวนไทย (5000 Thai Idioms)
Review: 5000 Thai Idioms… Title: ๕,๐๐๐ สำนวนไทย (นับแต่อดีตจวบจนปัจุบัน) 5000 Thai idioms; from the past right on up to now! [paraphrased] Author: เอกรัตน์ อุดมพร ISBN: 978-974521855-0 First off I...
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A Quest to Fluency: Thai and Italian. Italian?
Paul’s Quest to Fluency… A little over a month ago Paul Garrigan launched his quest to become fluent in the Thai language. Impressed with the obvious dedication shown, Stu Jay Raj (jcademy.com) took...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: The Why? Series
Thai Language Thai Culture: Book Review – The Why? Series… To many people, the search for the holy grail of learning to read Thai is finding a book that fulfils a number of requirements. It is at the...
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Successful Thai Language Learner: Michel Boismard
Interviewing Successful Thai Language Learners… Name: Michel Boismard Nationality: French Age range: 67 Sex: Male Location: Thailand What is your Thai level? My Thai level is advanced. I learnt some...
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In Search of a Thai Clock
In Search of a Thai Clock… This week I got it into my head that I just had to have a Thai clock. I didn’t want anything fancy, but I did want a clock I could use for years, preferably in wood, but I’d...
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Unlikely but True Origins of the Thai Script
Unlikely but True Origins of the Thai Script… We can trace the Thai script back in time and space (mostly going West) to the Phoenicians, whose alphabet is the mother of all European and Indic systems...
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FREE Download: Glossika Thai Fluency 1 GMS and GSR
FREE download: Glossika Thai Fluency 1 GMS and GSR… If you’d like to try Glossika’s new Thai course before you buy, download Glossika Thai Fluency 1 GMS (Glossika Mass Sentences) and GSR (Glossika...
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2014: The Sixth Google Translate Challenge
Google Translate, the challenge… Welcome to the SIXTH Google Translate Challenge! Apologies, I’m a day late getting this one launched. Tedious, I know, but I’ve been off my game for awhile. To recap…...
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Thai Bites Live Event: Road to Fluency
Thai Bites Live Event: Road to Fluency… On the Sixth of August, Stuart Jay Raj from Jcademy, along with Arthit Juyaso (Duke Language School) and Mike Campbell (Glossika Language Training), will hold a...
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Thai Language Thai Culture: Speaking Thai in Tenses
Thai Language Thai Culture: Speaking Thai in Tenses… To avoid talking about the last shot I had just hit into the water on the 3rd hole last week I got to talking with my golfing partner, a former...
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Jonas Anderson’s Tongue-twister: กวางขาวอยู่กลางเขา
Jonas Anderson’s Tongue-twister: กวางขาวอยู่กลางเขา… Jonas Anderson’s new song, กวางขาวอยู่กลางเขา, is a hilarious hit. The lyrics tell a story about a western English teacher who falls in love with a...
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Memorize Thai Tones With Five Simple Rules
Memorize Thai Tones With Five Simple Rules… I just made big strides with reading tones/ tone markers and would like to share my findings with anyone interested. I’ve been a successful Piano and Music...
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