Advanced Study
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: Just released in 2003, this exhaustive study sets the new standard for a comprehensive treatment of the subject. A must-have. |
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: To be released in late 2002, pre-order your copy now. |
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Thaicouses.com comments: When you've given up on all other methods of learning to read or write Thai, turn to this: the complete and concise explanation of all the pronunciation rules and exceptions, with very little else. Dry, technical and forbidding?—Yes; can you do without it?—no. This bible provided the heuristic foundation for Thaicouses.com's automatic transliteration engine. Highest recommendation; if you come across this very difficult-to-find reference, snatch it. |
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: I believe this is the book-only edition of this intensive Foreign Service Institute course. See above for audio version. |
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: A collection of progressively more difficult samples to read, beginning with very simple sentences. By the end of this short book you should be reading whole paragraphs. The vocabulary used is defined, but otherwise there is no explanation provided—it's just a reader. A good way to solidify developing reading skills. Recommended. |
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This thorough course from a Berkeley professor eschews all transliteration, so you'll have to know basic reading to begin. Given that, it's interesting that this course starts with extremely basic Thai. All Thai script in the book is handwritten, and the illustrations are amateurish. Recommended for its impressive scope. |
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Learning to Read Thai BUY!  (not available at Amazon.com)
by Sriwilai Ponmanee
Thaicouses.com comments:
One of the best ways for a foreigner to learn Thai is take the eight-week summe r Thai language program at the Center for Teaching Thai as a Foreign Language at Chiang Mai University (contact Edsdi007@chiangmai.ac.th). This book gives you some idea of a portion the course content. Recommended. |
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