Language Learning Software
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Some beginning students are intimidated by the initricacies of language used by people of different social class in Thailand. This is not a problem, however, since the rules are quite general, and foreigners may be allowed more leeway, since the effort to speak Thai is widely appreciated. There are many ways to say "I" or "you," for example, but some are only used by royalty, ecclesiastics, etc., so they won't be of concern to the beginner.
Much like L'Academie Française , there is a governing body for the Thai language, the Royal Institute ราชบัณฑิตยสถาน , which publishes an official Thai dictionary and adds new words to the language as required, possibly drawing on Pali, Sanskrit, Mon, and Khmer, for example.
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