an antidote

As a corrective to the prevailing assumption on TV that becoming fluent in Thai is somehow out of reach of most people, perhaps especially older people, here is a talk from the 2016 Polyglot Conference by Kristoffer Broholm, a fellow who has assembled a series of 100 podcast interviews with accomplished polyglots.  From this experience and his own language learning, he attempts to summarize what he has learned about learning languages from successful students.  It's a motivating talk for those of us engaged in learning Thai here in Thailand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxEnSjAlaik

There is a whole polyglot community on the web with lots of youtube videos of interest.