A Guide to Thai Police and Armed Forces Ranks
Thai police and army ranks… Thai newspaper reports contain many abbreviations of police & army ranks and these can be difficult to understand at first. … Read more
The NEW Cracking Thai Fundamentals
Cracking Thai Fundamentals Workshop… I started Cracking Thai Fundamentals in 2000 for the Foreign Correspondent’s Club of Thailand to help journalists hit the ground running. … Read more
Tim Ferris: Thai Sentence Deconstruction
How to Learn (but not master) any Language in an hour… Tim Ferris from the 4 Hour Workweek makes bold statements about learning languages. In … Read more
Thai Frequency Lists with English Definitions
Thai frequency lists with English definitions… In How to Learn a Language in a Foreign Country Robert Bigler mentioned the importance of using frequency lists. … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: How I Learn Thai
How I Learn Thai… A reader asked me recently if I would write about how I went about learning Thai. It was a great question … Read more
Saturday Night Live Learning Thai with Rossetta Stone the Next Thai Protest?
Learning Thai with Rosetta Stone spoof… Recently in the news Thais protested about Buddha artwork on public toilets in the Netherlands. Result? The Dutch apologised … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Thai Money Vocabulary
Thai Money Vocabulary… One thing that might make living in a foreign country a bit easier is to know lots of words on the subject … Read more
Women Learn Thai: Best of 2012
Women Learn Thai: Best of 2012… Happy New Year 2013 everyone! Wow. 2012 went by fast. Looking back over the year I can tell that … Read more
The Most Beautiful Words in the Thai Language
What Thai words are beautiful to you?… There are Thai words that I love to say just because of the singsong melody they impart. I’m … Read more
Six Beautiful Words in the Thai Language
What do you think of these beautiful Thai words?… Several times a month I jump into a taxi to roam around Thailand with a Thai … Read more
Thai Language Amongst World’s Sexiest Accents
Does the Thai accent sound sexy to you?… Thailand gets more than its share of bad news – depressing – so when the announcement of … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Learning Thai Later in Life
Learning Thai Later in Life… I read the Language Forum posts on ThaiVisa.com regularly to find out what some people are thinking about learning Thai. … Read more