Define Ignorant? Crown Prosecutor: “The Afghani men were standing on either side of you in the boat’s cabin making sure you steered the boat after the captain and his assistant jumped off the boat into the water near Kupang?” Defendant: “Yes” Crown Prosecutor: “What about before the captain jumped
Meeting with the Smugglers and the Smugglees – All are Victims (Watch the full documentary below) [](http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2012/05/20125151118975100.html)For those people who have
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
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?
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Jay-Dukan-2011-13-Sept-91kg-13-Nov-75kg-ii.jpg) ## Too Fat to Flip On the 1st of September 2011, I touched down back home in Thailand to run
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/serang-village-kids-1.jpg)My apologies to those who had gone to the previous link sent out for ‘[The Language of People Smuggling](http://stujay.com/2011/11/15/the-language-of-people-smuggling/
My apologies to those who have arrived at this link for my article ‘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. The case is now over, and you can
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Kindle-Vs-iPad.jpg) ## I Love my Books and They Love Me It all started with an email from a fellow linguaphile in Bangkok back in 2009 – *“Jay, you have to
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Indonesia-Bule-Post.jpg) ## Time for a Fresh Look on Indonesia I have been running Cross Cultural workshops and working as a cross-cultural / cross-linguistic buffer in Asia for
Once again, thank you Cat for conducting these ‘post workshop’ interviews with the workshop’s participants. Stu Jay Raj. ### Claudio on Stu’s Cracking Thai Fundamentals… The first day of the Cracking Thai Fundamentals workshop started out with the obligatory introductions. I realized during the introduction that even foreigners who
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/cracking-thai-peter-lo.jpg)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
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Glyph-Symbols-Only.png)I mentioned in my recent post “[Thai Tones, Consonants and Vowels in One Simple Post](http://stujay.com/