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Read MoreHotels, Thais and Indians – No Room for Political Correctness
The Original Story Appears in Hotel Intel.co. Click here for full story. Several months ago, I was brought into a project in a high-end hotel in Bangkok that was a couple of months away from completion. Right now in Thailand, the labour market is flooded and finding internationally minded service staff with sufficient English language skills is not an easy task. In order to ensure that the English level...
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Read MoreTV Interview – Polyglot Stuart Jay Raj talks about Language Learning and Careers
In this Episode of Talking Thailand with Khun Pleum (M.L. Nattakorn Devakula), Grace Robinson and Adam Bradshaw interview Polyglot Stuart Jay Raj. Languages that Stuart or ‘Jay’ use during the interview include English, Thai, Indonesian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Danish and Spanish. Stuart or Khun ‘Jay’ talks about how to best approach learning languages like Thai and Chinese and talks about techniques that...
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Read More‘Thinking in Meanings’ Sneak Preview on Jcademy – ต่อ tɔ̀: with vector words ไป pai and มา ma:
This is a sneak preview of the second Cracking Thai Fundamentals module “Thinking in Meanings” is going to change the way you think about language and meanings. This module has hours of quality content that will become a cornerstone to your language learning in Thai and other languages from around the region. Escape the Limits of your Mother Tongue The aim of the module is to get us being able...
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Read MoreChinese English Thai – Language Reveals Another World Hidden in Plain View – Same Sign Different Message
How do You Know What You Are Experiencing is What Everyone Else Is? Watch this Clip First So many expats that I meet in China, Indonesia, Thailand and other countries around the region tell me that they get around just fine without knowing the local language. I suppose that is a fair enough statement. It’s a bit like the movie The Matrix though. Once you’ve had a taste of being...
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Read MoreIn Defense of Accused People Smugglers – ABC TV story on Stuart Jay Raj and David Svoboda’s Work
ABC Newsline FEATURE: People smuggling: from the village to the courts On one recent People Smuggling mission in Banten province, West Java Indonesia, ABC Reporter Auskar Surbakti came along for the ride and filed this story. Transcript There’s a growing outcry over mandatory sentences for Indonesian boat crew convicted of people smuggling offences in Australia. Lawyers in Australia are set to lodge...
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Read MoreHow to Be a Beauty Queen and Influence People … Stuart Jay Raj on the Language of Miss Universe
Somebody’s Gotta Do It … The Miss Universe 2009 pageant has just wrapped up (not without controversy) at the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. Another amazing year where I was fortunate to spend a lot of time meeting some wonderful people and rub shoulders with the gorgeous, the glamorous, the influential … and the not so influential (though many in this final category would probably have liked to...
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Read MoreJazz Lessons on Language – Improvisation 101 – Stuart Jay Raj’s Indic Script Compass
Find Your Way Around Indic Based Writing Systems (Devanagari, Tamil, Panjabi (Gurmukhi), Burmese, Bahasa Bali (Balinese), Bahasa Jawa (Javanese), Thai and Khmer (Cambodian) Without a GPS Theme and Variation The reason I love playing and listening to jazz so much is because you’re able to get into the soul of the players by hearing how they improvise on a theme. Language is not that much different....
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