Earlier this year I went to Bangkok for Barcamp and I really enjoyed it. If you haven’t heard of it, the basics are that it is an open educational conference. Open in the sense that everyone is a participant can give a talk about whatever they wish. It’s great for networking and a good time. While there are a lot of tech guys, there are plenty of people from other fields as well. And its free!
Depending on the turn out, I may do a talk or 2 about language stuff.
November 14th will be the 2nd Barcamp Chiang Mai. If anybody is in the area or can get up here, you might wanna check it out.
I’ve had to put the video project on hold temporarily as I’ve just been too busy to film. I’m taking care of a few loose ends so I can finally graduate. Any day now.
I am currently teaching Thai part-time (to farangs of course) at my university and it has been an interesting experience. They were fresh off the boat and I only get them once a week so it has been challenging to design an alphabet boot camp for them. This has led me to create a number of resources that are useful for beginners or anyone trying to learn the sound system and/or wants to be able to read properly. I have an idea for an experiment and could use a few subjects. People who can’t read well or at all are preferred. If you can kinda read, but aren’t solid on the sounds, it will probably still be useful for you. It would require a bit of time and effort on your part, but not too much. I’m not sure how many people I can take on, but probably 2 or 3 should be fine. Anybody interested? Its nice to be literate.
While I am working on a couple other projects at the moment, being done with school will give me a window of time to work on a something over the next few months. I think its almost time to move away from the blog format and into something different. I’m open to suggestions/requests. Let me know if there is something in particular that you’d like to see.
In the meantime, I have more transcripts in progress and there are probably another 50 videos to dig through some of which may be good enough to post so expect a bit more in the not to distant future.
If any of this stuff is of interest, contact me at learnthaifromawhiteguy AT gmail dOt com
Also, I’m heading to Bangkok in a week or so and if anybody wants a lesson and/or to meet up, let me know soon.
