Learning Thai in Bangkok Automatic Language Growth, a new approach to absorbing a hard language. By Antonio Graceffo

“The way we found out that our mother had diabetes was that ants would appear every time she peed.”

The teachers had been standing at the front of the room talking about bodily functions and toilet humor for nearly an hour. The next story was a Thai legend about a half woman and half snake spirit monster, which fed on human waste. I would have been appalled, except that it was all in Thai, and yet, after ... (more)