If you have an iPod you have already iTunes installed on one of your computers. You can get updates from this site as podcasts directly delivered to your iTunes client or if you use another media player try the free Juice Podcast receiver.
Jay has made two quick tutorials that show you how to add our RSS feed to iTunes or Juice and get updates directly and automagically!
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Don’t be surprised if you come to Thailand and hear words that sound all so familiar. Some words from other languages are used in Thai and many of those are English. Enjoy the next few lessons about Thenglish words, English words with Thai pronunciation.
Click here to download the transcript of this lesson.
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Don’t be surprised if you come to Thailand and hear words that sound all so familiar. Some words from other languages are used in Thai and many of those are English. Enjoy the next few lessons about Thenglish words, English words with Thai pronunciation.
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In this lesson you will hear a kid talking to a shop owner to reduce the price of some wood building blocks.
Premium members can find the video and transcript in our members section of the site. If you want to know how well you can learn with videos or you are wondering where the conversation lesson 7 is you can get it along with the video and printable transcript by subscribing to our newsletter.
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In this lesson you will hear a kid talking to a shop owner to reduce the price of some wood building blocks.
Premium members can find the video and transcript in our members section of the site. If you want to know how well you can learn with videos or you are wondering where the conversation lesson 7 is you can get it along with the video and printable transcript by subscribing to our newsletter.
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While working on the redesign of the site I got more into Wordpress Themes again and came up with this minimal theme design with a touch of typography. It is rather elegant and for all those who like to keep things nice and simple. You can find a demo here.
It is of course fully widgetized, tested on WordPress 2.1. / 2.9.1. / 2.9.2 and plays along nicely with my ajax category post dropdown plugin.
Download the Simple Things in Life Wordpress Theme here.
To install the theme just unzip the file and upload the “simplethings” folder into your theme directory (http://yourdomain.com/wp-content/themes/). If you have any questions you can contact me via email.
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I wrote this little Wordpress Plugin for the upcoming redesign of our website. It will help users to navigate quickly to a certain lesson.
Ajax Categories Posts Dropdown Download
Here is the general description:
Lists all categories in a dropdown box and after selecting one the second dropdown box gets populated via Ajax with all posts from this category. You can use this plugin as widget (with some options) or just add the function to display the two dropdown boxes somewhere in your template files.
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We try to constantly improve our lessons and one of the recent improvements is the use of real video footage of native Thai speakers in our lessons.
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We constantly want to improve the course and what we offer on this site so please help us by filling out this short survey.
It just takes 5 minutes and you have the chance to win a 6 month Premium Course membership or one of two 3 month memberships.
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In this lesson two teenagers talk with each other and make plans for the evening. The girl has a good idea what to do but the boy realizes that he doesn’t have time for that.
Premium members can find the video and transcript in our members section of the site. If you want to know how well you can learn with videos or you are wondering where the conversation lesson 7 is you can get it along with the video and printable transcript by subscribing to our newsletter.
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The public part of our site has been a bit quiet lately because we were so busy working on the Premium Course. We are starting with the Thai writing system right now and already have over 50 Premium Lessons online that cover almost all basic and grammar related areas of the Thai language.
We also updated our newsletter and all previous lessons that you could get via our newsletter are now directly available on the site.
Previous lessons via our newsletter (now here on the site)
We have 7 more lessons for all newsletter subscribers though, in which you learn about family and kin terms, slang words (SHOOT THE RABBIT!..) and more. All these new lessons show a bit better what we are doing now and come as video, audio and print files. If you haven’t subscribed already you can subscribe to our newsletter by entering your details in the form on top of the sidebar.
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In this conversation a Hitman asks his mum to start a new life with him. His mother is not that excited about this, but well at least he wants to change his life right?
The pdf transcript and video for this lesson is available in our members section.
By the way we updated our Thai Alphabet overview with sound files and will have some more intermediate lessons coming soon.
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This conversation is about a girl who takes care of a kid and this kid threw away stuff that belonged to her ex-boyfriend. That sounds like trouble and yes, it is. She comes home and sees what the kid is doing and is obviously not happy about that but the kid has a good explanation for that but well, it doesn’t help very much and she’s still pretty pissed off.
The transcript, video and many more lessons can be found in our premium course area. Enjoy!
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Did you know that the Thai language is full of words to describe feelings? This conversation lesson is about feelings and you will hear a Thai man talking to his ex-girlfriend. If you have a Thai partner you might find the one or other sentence helpful whenever you want to tell her or him something sweet.
If you are member of our Learn Thai Premium Course you will find the video and transcript of this lesson in the members area. We also posted two Thai lessons from the members area on the new sign up page. If you ever wondered what kind of lessons we have in our premium course check them out.
We (Jo & Jay) just came back from a little vacation in southern France so stay tuned for weekly conversation lessons from now on.
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We have updated some sections of the public site and you can now learn a new Thai word every day in our sidebar. You will see a new word with audio clip, Thai script and transliteration every 24 hours.
We also added a Thai Grammar Reference to the site with the most essential Thai grammar rules. These are just the basics but will give you an idea how Thai grammar is structured and is definitely enough if you just go on holiday to Thailand and want to come up with a few “self made” sentences instead of sticking exclusively to Thai phrases from books.
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