Thai Language Thai Culture: Is That a Gan in Your Pocket?
Is that a กัน /gan/ in your pocket?… One thing I like to do as a vocabulary building exercise is when I come across a … Read more
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Is that a กัน /gan/ in your pocket?… One thing I like to do as a vocabulary building exercise is when I come across a … Read more
Just how DO Thais learn English?… Having recently written a book (Tenses for Thais) designed to help native English speakers and Thais who wish to … Read more
Watching educational Thai TV on YouTube… The many ways to learn Thai thrills me. On top of course books and online Thai lessons, there is … Read more
The Teach Yourself Thai Complete draw… again… Well, this is a fun outcome (as well as a fabulous selling point for David Smyth’s new TYT). … Read more
The Do-Be-Do-Be-Do system of learning Thai tones… (Apologies to Frank Sinatra) If language were like a song, then the vocabulary and grammar of the language … Read more
The Teach Yourself Thai Complete draw… Running a draw can be loads of work, so I aimed to keep this one simple. I went to … Read more
David Smyth updates Teach Yourself Thai … Only a handful of Thai courses are highly thought of, and David Smyth’s Teach Yourself Thai is at … Read more
A Sticky Problem… I was reading one of those Thai expat blogs recently when I came across someone discussing the Thai word for “stingy” (seems … Read more
Mindfulness and learning Thai… Reading a recent article by Catherine Wentworth, Learning Thai (for the shy), I hit upon a paragraph that grabbed my attention. … Read more
The Thai phrases you use most often… Moving to a county with a new foreign language to tackle, I depend on two sure-fire phrases. The … Read more
Are you a shy Thai learner?… Back when I was much younger, I’d shrink from meeting new people, and sometimes people I knew. One time, … Read more
Active Learning vs Passive Learning… I’ve been learning languages by myself since I was 13. As an experienced self-learner, I came to the conclusion that … Read more