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/
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