Language and Mind Mastery

Peter Lo – Cracking Thai Fundamentals Review from Womenlearnthai.com

October 18, 2010

I had to make an emergency trip back to Bangkok a couple of weeks ago, and as many of you know, I used to opportunity to run one of my Cracking Thai Fundamentals workshops. I have recently re-written the entire workshop and this was the first time that I had delivered it in it’s new [...]

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12 Easy Steps to Reading Thai

October 3, 2010

I mentioned in my recent post “Thai Tones, Consonants and Vowels in One Simple Post“ that I would provide an explanation of how to best use my Thai Consonant Chart that uses the glyphs from my larger Indic Consonant Compass. I have just finished rewriting the new Handbook for my Cracking Thai Fundamentals programme that [...]

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Getting Past the Squiggles – Hanacaraka

September 20, 2010

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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Scott Eddy Interview – Cracking Thai Fundamentals

September 17, 2010

This is a cross post from Catherine Wentworth’s fantastic blog Womenlearnthai.com Talking about Stu Jay Raj’s Cracking Thai Fundamentals… Stu is back in Bangkok with Cracking Thai Fundamentals. You already know my experiences with Stu’s workshop, so to give you another opinion I asked a former student of Stu’s, Scott Eddy, for an interview. I [...]

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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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Producing the Initial ‘Ng’ /ŋ/ in Asian Languages

September 13, 2010

Next to getting the tones right, the initial ‘Ng’ sound that is found in so many Asian languages proves to be one of the major pronunciation issues for non-Asian learners of ‘initial ng’ languages.The languages that have an initial NG sound include: Thai Lao Cantonese and other Chinese Languages / Dialects (especially southern dialects) Bahasa [...]

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Mistakes People Make When Learning A Language

September 8, 2010

Have you ever spent weeks, months … even years learning a language only to have people still scratch their heads trying to figure out what you’re saying? .. Or even worse? How do you know that people are really getting the message you intend them to get? Have you ever had terrible experiences with language [...]

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Preparing to Master a Language

September 7, 2010

Pick a Language Any Language Over the past 2 weeks, I have received over 50 messages, comments and emails from people all over the world asking about how they should embark on learning a language. I normally keep the following for people who enroll in my Cracking Thai Fundamentals programme, but after reading through it, [...]

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Stujay.com – Crazy Indian / Kiwi Video Clip

August 29, 2010

I’ve just spent the past week setting up a mini TV studio at home here so I can start producing some great content for all of you. I’m busting to get it all produced as fast as possible … my mind is in overdrive and I think I have enough content running around my grey [...]

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Walking Dictionaries

August 27, 2010

“Wow! You speak Chinese so well …. you must have a Walking Dictionary!? 哈哈哈哈” “Wow! You speak Thai so well …. you must have a Walking Dictionary!? 5555″ “Wow! You speak Korean so well …. you must have a Walking Dictionary!? ㅋㅋㅋㅋ” “Wow! You speak Bahasa Indonesia so well …. you must have a Walking [...]

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