{"id":1503,"date":"2015-09-25T00:16:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T03:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2015-09-25T00:16:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T03:16:31","slug":"%e0%b8%a0%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a9%e0%b8%b2%e0%b9%84%e0%b8%97%e0%b8%a2-the-challenge-thai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/2015\/09\/25\/%e0%b8%a0%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a9%e0%b8%b2%e0%b9%84%e0%b8%97%e0%b8%a2-the-challenge-thai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0e20\u0e32\u0e29\u0e32\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22: the challenge (Thai)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We always see these two things: people stating that they can learn a new language in a short period of time; and people asking whether that is possible.<\/p>\n<p>I always thought it is possible to learn a language in, say, three months &#8211; which seems to be the most popular &#8220;short period&#8221; proposed by both fronts. But I have never embraced such an endeavour myself.<\/p>\n<p>So, after thinking about it for some time, I&#8217;ve decided to give it a try. Yes, I will be learning a language for the next three months to see how deep I can get.\u00a0 Well, for this to be a serious challenge, I had to choose a language completely new to me. Or, rather, new regarding knowledge <em>in<\/em> the language. I chose \u0e20\u0e32\u0e29\u0e32\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22 (Thai) because, even if it is one of the first languages I knew <em>about<\/em>, I have never touched it. I don&#8217;t even know one single letter of its alphabet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We always see these two things: people stating that they can learn a new language in a short period of time; and people asking whether that is possible. I always thought it is possible to learn a language in, say, three months &#8211; which seems to be the most popular &#8220;short period&#8221; proposed by both &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/2015\/09\/25\/%e0%b8%a0%e0%b8%b2%e0%b8%a9%e0%b8%b2%e0%b9%84%e0%b8%97%e0%b8%a2-the-challenge-thai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u0e20\u0e32\u0e29\u0e32\u0e44\u0e17\u0e22: the challenge (Thai)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[554,3638],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oderalon.net\/linguae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}