I recently started dating a Thai woman here in the U.S. I am wondering what a good translation website or book might be. We speak English when we talk but occassionally she will say things in Thai and I need to know what they are.

Dictionaries:

http://lexitron.nectec.or.th/

http://cyberdict.com (click the top menu item on the left, this will take you to either a English->Thai or Thai->English dictionary)

Breaking Thai text into individual Thai words (so you can then look them up)

http://ntl.nectec.or.th/services/wordbreak/ (Though it doesn't seem to work right now)

Machine Translation from English to Thai:

http://www.suparsit.com/index2new.html (Like most machine translations, it's not very accurate, and this one is less accurate than a Babelfish type translation of say English to German would be.)

That last one can be quite funny... So use with caution!!

Cheers,

Chanchao

Thank you.

greg slayden's site is down for the past 3 months;

good dictionary that has thai/english, phoneticthai/english, english/thai: by benjawan somebody , dont have the book in front of me but sold thru amazon; thai hypermarket, dcothai.com...

Thai-English, English Thai by Benjawan Poomsan Becker. i bought in on Amazon too. very good book.