Course Structure Course name: 2 WEEKS TO SPEAK – Intensive Thai conversation course Duration: 2 weeks / level; 5 hours / day; 5 days / week; Monday to Friday Teacher…
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With over 20 years of teaching experience, Jom and Chiara have taught thousands of students from all over the world.
Jom created his signature Thai Language programme and T.M.C. Learning Methods back in 2001, which you can still experience in all our group and private in-class or online classes to this day.
Jom Nawa
Founder / Thai Head Teacher
Jom was born and grew up in a village in Esaan, in the North East of Thailand, the third of four sons of the local School Principal and of the only nurse of the surrounding villages.
He studied Law in Bangkok, where he lived for seven years, before moving to Koh Samui in 1999. He got off the boat at Nathon Pier with 50 baht in his pocket and the will to do what the village where he grew up wouldn’t allow him to do: build up his own future. On Samui he got in contact with the large community of European expats, quickly improving his English skills first and starting to teach Thai soon after.
He spent his first years on Samui teaching Thai to foreigners and working as an interpreter and translator for the local court.
Jom’s magnetic personality and innovative teaching style helped him to quickly become popular among the local expats. In 2001, he opened Mind Your Language School Thailand, the go-to place to learn Thai on Koh Samui. As the years passed and his teaching experience grew, he developed a unique method to learn to speak foreign languages in a fast and effective way, based on repetition and the development of muscle memory. This method formed the current T.M.C. Methods®, the pillars upon which we design all private and one to one, in-class or in-class or online lessons, and can be experienced at its best in the 2 Weeks to Speak Intensive Thai Conversation Courses.
Jom is the heart of the school, and his mission is to make every hour you learn with him easy, fast, effective and fun.
Chiara Gasparotti
English and Italian Head Teacher, PLIDA Certification Director
Chiara Gasparotti was born and grew up in Italy. Supporting her early passion for foreign languages and cultures, her parents allowed her to improve her English abroad.
She studied foreign languages in High School, completed her Bachelor’s Degree in Italian Literature and a Master’s Degree in Sociology of Sports. She worked as a free-lance reporter for some sports magazines and two main newspapers in her city. She started tutoring school children while at University, moving on to more structured teaching roles (head teacher in courses organized by the Province of Brescia and Region Lombardia) both as a Teacher of English and Italian as a Second Language. Prior to leaving for Thailand, she worked for two years at Wall Street English.
Chiara moved to Thailand in 2014 to get a TEFL certification, which she successfully completed, achieving the highest score in her group. Soon after, she started teaching English and Italian at Mind Your Language Thailand. In 2017, she opened the first International Certification Centre of Italian Language in Thailand (PLIDA) Authorized by Società Dante Alighieri, Roma. She earned a few other online diplomas (Dyslexia, Autism, A1, B1 and B2 Italian assessment) and a TEFL trainer Certificate, after which she worked for two years as a TEFL Head Trainer.
In 2019, she was included on the board of Società Dante Alighieri di Phuket as a Supervisor for Italian Courses and Certifications.
Chiara currently teaches regular and intensive online courses and prepares students for the Italian B1 and B2 certifications necessary to obtain Italian citizenship and to enroll into Italian Universities. She also prepares students for all bands of IELTS and TOEIC. Her mission is to help every single student achieve their learning goal in a dynamic, easy and fun way.