[](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/
Indonesian Malay
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 these people came from language backgrounds that had their scripts based on
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
Thai
[](http://stujay.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/CIMG4271.jpg)I’m very reluctant to reveal too much about this subject. It’s very personal, very
Language and Linguistics
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