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Melayu / Malay

Learn a Language – Change the World Part 2 – No Money No Funny

January 14, 2012

Who Wants to Be A Refugee? In Part One ‘Unchartered Waters’, I gave an overview of how language had taken me to many weird and wonderful places.  There are many programmes and groups out there fighting to help and defend the rights of refugees. My views have changed a lot since working on these people [...]

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Getting Past the Squiggles – Hanacaraka

September 20, 2010
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Click to View “Stuart Jay Raj – Help Preserve Javanese, Balinese and other Bahasa Daerah Indonesia – Hanacaraka It’s Faster for Some to Learn to Read than Others Over the years living in Thailand, I had many people coming from Non-English speaking backgrounds approach me about how they might best approach learning Thai. Many of [...]

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Language – Weapon of Choice for Propaganda and Disinformation

August 18, 2010

Has language ever revealed things to you that you wish everyone else knew? The first casualty in any war is the truth. From a glimpse of the headlines in my news-feeds today, it looks like the veritas body-count is sky high. Sifting through the propaganda in the aftermath of 9/11 Just after 9/11, I can [...]

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Polyglot Stuart Jay Raj “Language Secrets From a Linguistic Junkie" Multilingual Video Post Episode 1 (2 Parts)

September 30, 2008

Episode 1 Part 1 Part 2 About a week ago, I was fortunate to have been invited to attend a Second Language Acquisition seminar by Language Acquisition guru Dr. Stephen Krashen (http://www.sdkrashen.com) , hosted by the Concordian International School here in Bangkok. Stephen was a real inspiration and after speaking with him that day, I [...]

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