Seg 3 of 3 Int 1 Stu Jay Raj Tonight Show Tom Mintier

Segment 3 of 3 taken from an the first of 2 interviews by Tom Mintier on his Tonight Show with Polyglot Stuart Jay Raj
This section covers:
Stuart Jay Raj the author
Cracking Thai Fundamentals
Bridging the gap between language, culture and business
How did you learn Bahasa Indonesia / Mandarin?
Floobenflahter analogy
Are languages really that foreign?
Demystifying Chinese
Speaking Thai like a Thai ain't easy
Sweating blood over learning grammar
Learning more than native speakers
Polyglot Children - bilingualism / multilingualism
What language is used at home?
Speaking to the heart
What did you speak growing up?
Italian through pictures
Kanji Cards - Japanese and Chinese Flash Cards

Check out Stu's language blog at http://stujay.blogspot.com

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• language
• linguistics
• stu
• stuart
• jay
• raj
• stujay
• cracking
• thai
• fundamentals
• chinese
• vietnamese
• polyglot
• sanskrit

[yassineit]

hey, have you thought of learning arabic? I know you're taking classes of Farsi, right?

[stujaystujay]

@yassineit I have also been hitting my Arabic books - though I'm lacking people to speak it with. I think I'll need to build a circle of Arabic speaking friends here.

[yassineit]

@stujaystujay I wish I could be there to help, I know italian and french as well, I've seen a video of you speaking italian, good, but you need to work on pronounciation, I recommend non italian films with italian voice translation (known as dubbing)

[stujaystujay]

@yassineit Thanks! That's great advice. I'd love to spend some serious time in Italy getting into the languages and dialects there.

[yoka955]

You are so inspiring. I am working on becoming fluent in both Chinese and Japanese (having studied Chinese for about 3 1/2 years and Japanese for about 1 year, and seeing what you have done i know i can do it.

[stujaystujay]

@yoka955 That's awesome .. let me know how you progress!

[andromeda03]

STUART UR DA BEST!

[256peace]

You would really get a kick out of the slang that Newfoundlanders use on the East Coast of Canada.

[MohamedZero]

It's called an accent. Everyone has one.

[stujaystujay]

My mother tongue is Australian English... but being away from there for a long time - and not speaking English that much, I do notice my vowels morph back and forth depending on where I am and how long I've been with them.

[256peace]

First off...you are quite amazing.

The interviewer sounded very American.

It seemed that you may try to mirror, the American English....but then flow back into Austrailian or British accent.

I speak Canadian English, and it is different again. I stuck out when visiting the US...so you are from Canada eh.