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I just got the 2 books and am happy with them, but I'm a bit disappointed that 45 stories doesn't include English translations, only a vocab list.

Desi,

Did your tape player work?

I'm very interested in the Read Thai Newspapers...hopefully it's available.

What is the approximate level of Read to Learn Thai compared to her other books?

Good luck with the tapes. I haven't owned a tape player for at least 10 years so if you can't get it to work then I'll have to go shopping. Do they even make them anymore?!

I ordered the two books and got an email saying there would be a slight delay because they sold out of their initial stock and are getting more from Chiang Mai so it looks like there is some interest.

Hi all, I'm too lazy to find where they are mentioned here, but earlier someone said that the books by Sriwilai Ponmanee are excellent for beginners on up to intermediate (paraphrasing).

Anyway, the whole set can now be found at DCO books here. As I was curious, I ordered a set but I haven't listened to the tape as my tape/cassette player doesn't work. As soon as I pull the cassette into my computer, if you do buy the book with the cassette, I'll give you a copy of the mp3 so you don't have to mess with it too. And if you manage to convert the cassette before I get around to it...

If anyone has any experience with Sriwilai Ponmanee's work could you jump in? The books do seem quite good and the prices are excellent.

45 Thai Stories w/Tape 490 Baht

Learning to Read Thai by Sriwilai Ponmanee 250 Baht

Reading to Learn Thai by Sriwilai Ponmanee 250 Baht

Speaking Thai 1 by Sriwilai Ponmanee 280 Baht

Speaking Thai 2 by Sriwilai Ponmanee 280 Baht

Speaking Thai for Advanced Learner 280 Baht

Nice find...thanks.

I bought Speaking Thai 2 quite a while ago and like it quite a bit. It has 40 lessons with each lesson giving vocabulary, then grammar practice, a short story with comprehension questions, and writing drills. I read the stories and answered the questions and skimmed the rest. I was impressed enough to try to track down Thai for Advanced Learners and 45 Thai Stories but found out that her books have been out of print for quite a while and couldn't be ordered. The only ones I've seen are several copies of Speaking Thai 2 and one copy of Learning to Read which I didn't buy since I can read already.

Thanks for the offer about the audio.

I tried it but wasn't very impressed. A lot of unknown words and it would often separate words incorrectly. Thai2English does it much better, imo.

I think it's best to say I am only a Farang I don't understand.

ผมเป็นแต่ฝรั่งก็เลยไม่เข้าใจสถานการณ์นี้ครับ

I'm not sure, but I think แค่ should come before เป็น

Whenever there is a disagreement my girlfriend often says- "Lai Sala". Thats just the sound of it, anyone know what that means?....

Since R's and L's often get switched...I'm guessing she's saying "rai sa ra" which means "ridiculous" or "nonsense"

The University of Hawaii program looks excellent! Thank you so much for posting this.

Finally found it at a Se-ed. Very cool...thanks. The audio alternates between Thai and English so I used audacity to edit out the English. I was left with about 1 1/2 hours of Thai. Great deal for only 199 baht.

I haven't found any good lessons, but here's what I do occasionally: type a short story then copy and paste it to thai2english.com to check my spelling. If you don't have a Thai keyboard then you can use an online one from here (oops, they won't let me post a link. Just google search "online Thai keyboard" and you'll find it).

It looks great, but I went to Se-Ed, Book Variety, and B2S, today and no place had it for sale or listed in their computers. Was it just released?