*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,
Three Fridays ago a friend of mine gave me a call just before he was about to board a plane at Suvarnabhumi airport (Bangkok). This guy is a genius when it comes to financial matters and was about to travel to the US to work on the last stages of
Streaming from Youtube – If you’re having trouble viewing in this blog, search for video clips at http://www.youtube.com by username – stujaystujay A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to cross paths with a great cross cultural / language instructor here in Bangkok called Chris Wright. Chris is
Thai
From the age of about 6 until around 17, I was really into gymnastics and martial arts. I could flex and bend like a rubber band and was always flipping about the place. After a few injuries in both sports, I decided to focus my attention on my music instead.
Language and Linguistics
It's no secret that Thailand is a haven for pirated goods. Handbags, Clothes, Accessories, Electronic Devices and of course Software and DVD's. There are many different grades of ‘fakes' too – cheap fakes normally reserved for the tourists around MBK, Silom etc… Middle of the Road
Books
A few months back I was looking for a way to catalogue all my books here. After searching around for some programmes that could help me do the job, I came across http://www.librarything.com . What a great site! … While there’s still a lot of deevlopment to be
How to prepare for and what to expect from Cracking Thai Fundamentals by Stuart Jay Raj One of the questions that I often get asked when opening a workshop like Cracking Thai Fundamentals is “Do you really think that you can teach me to speak Thai in 12-16 hours?” The
I would just like to post this out to the gods that be in Microsoft developing the Thai tools for Microsoft Word. After spending a long time with my team translating a couple of books for a client, the client required the whole document to be indexed as its English
Language and Linguistics
When asking foreigners that have been in Thailand for any reasonable amount of time “How’s your Thai?”, I often hear the answer “Oh, I speaka bit of Taxi Thai and that’s about it”. Striking up a conversation with ataxi driver is a great way to build up fluency