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
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
I received an email in my Youtube box this morning that touched on a topic that I had always meant to post about. I figured this is a better time than ever to write about it. Here’s the letter: ***Perfect Pitch *** Hey Stuart, I want to learn a language,
GTZ-SUTP, partner of the Sustainable Urban Mobility in Asia (SUMA) project, successfully concluded its initial course of the “Train-the-Trainer” program which was an initiative of the the SUMA project in partnership with CAI-Asia and other organizations. The participants, “Future Trainers”, were preselected professionals on urban transport from India and China.
## 粵 ## 日 漢 ## 한 ## ? ## 傣 ## ไทย ## 佬 ## Tiếng Việt ## Who Should Read This * Anyone interested in languages J * Chinese speakers of one Chinese Language (方言) that would like to learn another - (E.g. Cantonese speaker wants to learn Mandarin, Mandarin Speaker wants to learn Cantonese, Hokkien Speaker wants to
Over the past 3 months, I think I’ve been at home in Bangkok for a total of about 6days. The rest of the time I’ve been travelling to some of the most fascinating places on the planet plying mytrade – i.e. packaging language, linguistics, facilitation, entertainment and culture
I’ve just received permission from the author to publish his response to my previous post. Note that the response came several months after the original response to his letter was sent. I hope it’s helpful to people studying Arabic out there. After reading it, I ran to my
I was just reading through a letter that I had sent someone a few months back in response to the question ‘How would you go about learning Arabic’. After looking through the response I gave, I thought that it might be useful to post it on my blog as well.
*Last month, 2-Magazine’s Jim Algie followed me around to a few meetings and events with clients and threw this article together. Thanks Jim! * If you haven’t read 2-Magazine yet…. why not? Available in Thailand, Singapore, Korea, Hong Kong and more – 2-mag.com Click here for PDF version of
In October 2007, I had the honour of appearing on CNN’s veteran correspondent’s Tom MintiersTonight Show on True Visions television. We recorded an interview over 2 x ½ hour shows that went to air on the first Wednesday and Friday of October. Here’s the direct link to the
I’m happy to announce that after many months of having my CTF radio programmes go to air on http://radiobangkok.net , the podcasts of the show are finally up on the radiobangkok.net website and available as RSS feeds. Here’s a snippit from the CTF page at http:
The response that I’ve received after posting the Joh Jai interview clips on Youtube a few months ago has been truly amazing. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been opened up to many fascinating people, language lovers and many opportunities. Some of those opportunities are still brewing now,