Program Reviews

I signed up for the 2 Weeks to Speak and couldn’t have been happier with the experience and the results.

The methods used by Jom and co. definitely work. The focus is on repetition and combining words to form sentences, turning questions into answers and vice versa. Training your mouth to make the sounds and endlessly repeating those sounds is the only way of grasping a tonal language so it makes perfect sense. This method of teaching combined with Jom's incredible energy, passion and humour is second to none. Jom’s colleague Bow also taught and practised with us so we were able to hear a different voice and pronunciations further preparing us for understanding outside the classroom.

The class size is kept small, there were 6 of us in total, so we each got lots of practice in speaking which helped us progress quickly and as a team. Every day we would learn new sentence structures and add to our vocabulary as well as practise what we had already learnt on previous days so nothing would get forgotten.

The course is indeed intense however it is also a lot of fun and the hours pass quickly. I would recommend learning as much vocabulary as possible beforehand to get the most out of the actual classes. I had learnt a few words and numbers before starting but the course really enabled me to start putting these random words together to create sentences and begin communicating properly. It has made all the difference to my confidence and to my Thai neighbours and friends!

In short; great teaching, lovely people! I highly recommend this course if you are planning to spend a while in Thailand.

I'm really excited about my learning experience with Two Weeks To Speak Thai.

Jom Nawa is a very professional and talented teacher (probably the best in Koh Samui!) and did his best to make us learn in an atmosphere between the academic and fun.

I find his method, called TMC, very efficient: allows students to become really quickly confident with a so difficult language!

Luckily I also found a group of very nice people as classmates: we always tried to help each other to grow together, we had great time during the lessons and also shared our free time outside the school!

The results of the course were quite evident at the end of the second week: we were really able to have everyday simple conversation in Thai!
What we need to improve is the use of tones, the real difficult peculiarity of thai language: they depend of our mouth muscles and cannot be perfect after only a couple of weeks.

That's why I really can't wait to join the further level (from 3 to 6) to be more fluent and able to communicate "as Thais do"!
So I would definitely recommend this course, like every others at Mind Your Language School.

2 weeks to speak. I have just finished the course and am impressed with the progress we have made in such a short time frame. As a linguist I have much appreciated teacher Jom's passion and professionalism. During the 50 hours he has taught us, not a dull moment has passed. I think that students and teachers alike will agree that is quite a feat indeed. Though five hours of classes a day seemed like a lot at first, time really flew by.

The method is based to a large extend on repeating words and phrases. This is an excellent way to train the brain and the muscular articulation base, especially for beginners who have nearly no prior knowledge to work with. As the course evolves, you will be expected to be considerably more creative though and transform questions into answers and answers into questions, or even translate phrases from English into Thai.

I believe a great advantage of the course to be the size of the group, which is kept relatively small. In our case there were 4 students, which gave us the effective and fun interaction of peer learning, yet also allowed for sufficient attention for each individual student.

To get the full potential of the course it is probably advisable to try and look into some of the basics of the Thai language before starting. Let it be clear that you do not need any prior knowledge of Thai, but it will speed up your language acquisition during the course. I would also advise blocking your agenda for the duration of the course, as missing a day or more will be far from effective.

Looking back on the past 2 weeks I can only conclude that I have learned a tremendous deal and I could genuinely not have wished for more.