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Stuart Jay Raj

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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Learn a Language – Change the World. Part 1 – Unchartered Waters

January 7, 2012

What Would YOU Do? What would you do if you landed in a foreign country and realized that you had left your ATM / Credit card back home and only had a few dollars cash on you? What would you do if your only choice was to stay in the jungle overnight without any food, [...]

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The Language of People Smuggling II

November 21, 2011

My apologies to those who had gone to the previous link sent out for ‘The Language of People Smuggling‘ and weren’t able to read the article. Due to legal reasons, I was required to pull the story until the case was over. An historical decision was made in Queensland today in regard to one of [...]

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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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Polyglot Tradecraft 101 – Language and Seduction. A Casestudy in Thailand.

September 14, 2010

I’m very reluctant to reveal too much about this subject.  It’s very personal, very effective and if used in the wrong way, can do a lot of damage.  When I sit down and think about my long term affair with language over the years though, this is an inextricable part of who I am and [...]

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NAUGHTY N.A.A.T.I Interpreter Exam- An Interpreter’s Nightmare

August 19, 2010

R.I.P. Stuart Jay Raj’s NAATI Professional Level 3 Thai Interpreters Exam 19th of August, 2010 Welcome to the Matrix – This Won’t Hurt a Bit Moving to Australia recently was a tough call for me.  I love my life in Thailand and never would I have imagined a year ago that this time this year [...]

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How to Be a Beauty Queen and Influence People … Stuart Jay Raj on the Language of Miss Universe

September 12, 2009

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 [...]

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Turning a Love for Language into a Career – Stuart Jay Raj’s Response to a Letter from a Frustrated Polyglot

October 24, 2008

I just received a letter from another Polyglot that I had come into contact by a fantastic language learning site out there – how-to-learn-any-language.com . After asking his permission, I’ve pasted the letter and my response here in the hope that it might be of assistance to other frustrated language lovers. Original Email: Dear Stuart, [...]

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