OldChinaHam

Captain,

Thank you very much for the advice. What you say is true if my experience with learning Mandarin is any guide. You are correct also that the very work that it requires to produce one's own flashcards, on paper or on computer, is sometimes almost enough to completely memorize what one was trying to learn in the first place.

One last question if I may: If the new version of Anki will not support all characters, then what about other flashcard software? I have never really used computer file systems for flashcards, but just relied on paper and pen or pencil.

I usually adopt a jocular tone when learning Thai.

Also, having learned Mandarin, it is not the Thai tones which are difficult, it is remembering which words have which tones and when. Having learned another tonal language will not help you with this memory nightmare. You must just listen to the language as it is spoken, and spend about 4 or 5 years until you sound less like the foreigner that you are.

Posted 2011-07-06 14:14:44

Does anyone happen to know of a Thai flashcard database with about 5000 of the most frequently used words? Most frequently used word counts vary according to who is doing the counting. But a first year language course should cover about 3000 words, I had thought.

For language learning other than Thai, such flashcard databases are available without cost in many cases.

Does anyone here know where the Thai Anki files can be found, or have alternative suggestions?

"sadly I know of 3 women who have murdered their spouse."

Hope it is not getting too close for comfort, though

Are Anki or maybe Mnemosyne the best suited to learning Thai vocabulary, Thai characters, and Thai grammar constructions and sentence structure?

I realize that this topic is probably covered very often but still I am not sure if it has been covered completely. If one is using this flashcard software on a laptop or a desktop, what is the best approach?

In the past, I have found Mandarin learning flashcard databases which are very extensive and some quite massive. But Thai language flashcard resources do not seem to be anywhere near as complete, just as there are so many Japanese and Mandarin language textbooks, and far fewer language texts for Thai.

It seems kind of a shame for each Thai language learner to spend time duplicating someone else's flashcard work if there already exists a flashcard database containing what is needed.

After some time searching for these databases and suitable software, so far I have not found a great deal.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for finding these flashcard databases?

"I really miss key-lime pie."

Key-lime pie from Key West?

Anyone here know anyone who met Hemingway?

What was that guy really like?

And what was that nonsense with the shotgun

After all.

I will be the first to admit I type like an Ape.

The least of my worries will be leasing to lesser evils,

If like with lesser gods I do go blind.

It might help the situation a great deal if I found a larger display.

It would help the situation but would still probably do nothing for my spelling.

Not only do I type like an Ape,

I have always found someway to mispell almost everything in sight.

But I must live with my handicap,

More or less.

It will not look gay,

Provided you are conductive enough.

I would have expected more.

And I could have predicted the first.

This American Life

Nothing that a good caning can't fix.

I forgot you were a music buff.

(AND AN AMAZING MEMORY FOR LYRICS!)

The McD store I mentioned, I was there.

Lines over 1 kilometer long.

A total madhouse.

All for something I would not feel right feeding to my dog.

He gets tuna and chicken.

There must be others?

Please do not be bashful.

There is no point in guessing.

You then flatter one group and offend the other group.

Which group is the offended, who should say?

I prefer the elitist usually.

Just all around better company,

If they are not Psychopaths.

"The op comes across as a very shallow human being imho"

Do you mean that the topic is sort of on the same level as what had last week?

Something like http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/635691-cooking-with-poo/

"Then i hope they build a nice 12 floor high building right in front of your property "

Your hope has already been realized.

Any other wishes I can help you with?

(Believe me, I know your frustration. So I guess it is a trade off to find the lessor of the many evils each and every time.)

YUM! is still considered status meals in many parts of Asia, or it used to be until recently.

And just like in the west, they know not what they eat.

If they wish to end up like balloons with type II, then more power to them, they are free to eat away a significant portion of their lifespan.

Whether your remark was intended to be derogatory?

No Cleverbot would feel this to be of any importance.

But you might.

The more you frequent the Fast Food Franchises in Asia, the more you will see.

If you like what you see, then this would surprise me.

I have been watching this since McD opened their first store in one of their major markets. And this really did change the society, I watched it happen. That was more than 25 years ago.

If you want to know more about the industry from top to bottom, then there are books available.

It can be a real eyeopener to learn what motivates us to eat in these places.

What would be the advantage of doing so in the first place?

I had a roommate for two years back in '63, '64. and '65 (Maybe '64, '65, I dunno)

He listened to Dylan incessantly.

Both of them finally drove me nuts.

This is just always where I end up.

Might as well start here in the first place.

(Is that really you, Dylan?)

"I'm not that desperate to pay a girl no matter how cute she is just to drink with me."

You are Right. That's not a good reason to pay a girl. To drink with you.

I don't think anyone here pays girls just to drink with them.

If I wanted to do that, I have a sister at home I can pay to drink with me.

I am just wondering, it being another Saturday night, if we might have an impolite discussion, this time of TarBalls?

What the expression means to you, and how many people at the Pub are even using TarBalls?

There may be a few here who feel very strongly that this is a subject which should not be up for discussion in a place like this. But I think it is fair game because it is always the same few who are continually posting here, and we want to better understand their quirks.

I know that even for someone to be at this pub they must have made a decision about whether or not to touch the TarBall issue.

(For those of you who always give me a very hard time, I know there are plenty of definitions out there for this word.

What...........

You want me to be your teacher and provide, and then sharpen, your pencil too?)

"Purchase any problem bird. Cut its head off. Give corpse to an old woman. Problem solved."

Before the foul beheading, please make my meal a capon.

The interesting thing about this is not that it is obscure, but that TV shows it was posted approximately 40 minutes ago, and Google Search shows over an hour ago. This is what is really interesting about this quote. And interesting about Thai time telling, maybe.

But I do not think this is proof of anything, yet.

And I do think that it is interesting you are able to post an interesting quote quickly.

We were never beaten.

We turned out relative wimps.