About
A home base for people who are Thai by family
Our mission is simple: nobody should have to figure out being luk khrueng alone.
Expat sites write for foreigners. Thai-learning sites write for tourists. The stories about being luk khrueng are scattered across forum threads and late-night group chats. This site puts them in one place, with four promises:
- Belong: you’re not the only one.
- Understand: Thai family life, explained from the inside.
- Get it done: the paperwork of belonging, sourced and dated.
- Thailand: Thailand from the inside: food, travel, muay thai and living there.
New here? Start here picks a path for you.
What we stand for
Never shame. Nobody gets ranked here: not by how Thai you look, how much Thai you speak, or which passport you hold. We joke about situations, never about people, and never about Thais or farang as groups. Skipped Saturday Thai school? Most of us wanted to. It’s not too late.
Consent first. We never publish anyone’s story, name, photo or profile without their clear permission, and we take it down within 48 hours if they change their mind. No photos of real children, ever.
Safety by design. Community features are for adults (18+). Meetups happen in public places with a volunteer host. We never publish lists of members or anyone’s precise location, and we collect only what a feature needs.
Sourced and dated. Every paperwork guide links its official sources and shows when we last checked them. Rules change and every case is different, so always confirm with your Thai embassy or consulate.
The site explains; the app gets you speaking. Thai phrases here come straight from our app, Reply Thai, so they never drift. Each one stays marked as a draft until a native speaker has reviewed it.
Checked, then checked again. How we source, date and review every page, and how Thai gets native review, is in our editorial policy. Found a mistake? Here’s how to tell us.
Who we are
We’re two people who both want the same thing: to help people who don’t (yet) speak their own family’s language.
Eric
Eric is from Sweden, half Thai and half Finnish, and lives in Thailand. He’s a digital marketing strategist who loves languages, sports and travel, and here he does the UX, the marketing and the problem-solving. Growing up, he had exactly one luk khrueng friend and wished for more, and for a community. He started lukkrueng.com to give the guidance he wishes he’d had. His story is our first essay.
Fahim
Fahim is a developer from Bangladesh who loves languages, tech and travel. He and Eric met at Tribal Hostel in Bali, a hostel for digital nomads, and started building projects together. Langluer was Fahim’s idea: building bridges between similar languages, so you learn a new one through one you already know.
lukkrueng.com and Reply Thai are both part of Langluer, our small family of language apps.
Get in touch
Spotted a mistake, want to share your story, or want to help host a meetup?
Our contact address is coming soon and will appear right here.
How we handle your data is on the privacy page.
You’ll probably hear this one at the door:
กินข้าวหรือยัง
gin khaao rue yang
Have you eaten?
Literally: “eat rice or yet”
In Thai families, this is how love sounds.
Draft: waiting for a native speaker’s review.
Practise replying to this in Reply Thai, coming soon to iPhone.