thai2english.com

[djayz]

Does anybody know what's up with the Thai/English English/Thai dictionary thai2english.com?

 

I keep getting the following notice:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Salerno]

Looks like they haven't paid their bill ????

[DUS]

It's the website I have been using almost daily since I moved to Thailand. I hope it will come back online soon.  

[KhunBENQ]

25 minutes ago, DUS said:

It's the website I have been using almost daily since I moved to Thailand. I hope it will come back online soon.  

Indeed. Would be quite a loss.

[djayz]

1 hour ago, DUS said:

It's the website I have been using almost daily since I moved to Thailand. I hope it will come back online soon.  

Me too. 

 

[ningnong]

It's a great translation and dictionary site I really hope it comes back online. I checked the thai2english Twitter and Facebook pages but no new posts since 2019. Looks like the creator is a member here at AN, mike_l but no activity since 2016.

[Foxx]

Poor site with terrible transcription.  There are much better options out there.  In my opinion, won't be missed.

[ningnong]

31 minutes ago, Foxx said:

Poor site with terrible transcription.  There are much better options out there.  In my opinion, won't be missed.

Please share the much better options out there.

 

Personally I have no use for transcription and students should learn to read the Thai as quickly as possible and get away from transcription.

 

I like the way thai2english breaks a sentence down to individual words and reveals compound words I may have missed.

 

And giving a phonetic spelling using commonly used consonants เศรษฐกิจ = เสด-ถะ-กิด is helpful for words with unusual spelling or for a beginner learning to read Thai.

 

The rating if a word is commonly used, rarely used etc. is handy too.

[djayz]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

Poor site with terrible transcription.  There are much better options out there.  In my opinion, won't be missed.

It suited my needs perfectly.

Mind sharing some of your sites/recommendations? 

[Foxx]

In terms of transcription, the best is AUA (as used by AUA, language schools using the Union method, and many universities).  It's used on the website thai-notes.com, which includes a Thai-English, English-Thai Dictionary with a "bulk lookup" feature, so one can not only look up individual words, but also whole sentences.  There's also Haas' Thai-English learners' Dictionary, and an Etymology Dictionary.  There's also a tool that transcribes Thai.

 

https://thai-notes.com/

https://thai-notes.com/dictionaries/predictionarysearch.html

https://thai-notes.com/dictionaries/haas.html

https://thai-notes.com/dictionaries/etymdict.html

https://thai-notes.com/tools/thai2ipa.html

 

thai-language.com also supports this transcription, though you have to turn it on under Site Settings

 

http://thai-language.com/default.aspx?nav=control

 

There's the main dictionary at

 

http://thai-language.com/dict/search

 

The "dumper truck" icon turns on "bulk lookup".

[ColeBOzbourne]

1 hour ago, Foxx said:

The "dumper truck" icon turns on "bulk lookup".

Thanks for that little tip. After many years using, I never knew that option was available.

[ningnong]

2 hours ago, Foxx said:

In terms of transcription, the best is AUA (as used by AUA, language schools using the Union method, and many universities).  It's used on the website thai-notes.com, which includes a Thai-English, English-Thai Dictionary with a "bulk lookup" feature, so one can not only look up individual words, but also whole sentences.  There's also Haas' Thai-English learners' Dictionary, and an Etymology Dictionary.  There's also a tool that transcribes Thai.

thai-notes.com and thai-language.com are both good sites that I've used some in the past. I like the connection to the Haas dictionary that thai-notes uses.

 

I took a quick look at the sites this morning. I still need to test how they deal with compound words but so far so good. I think thai-language will be a fine replacement for thai2english for my needs although but I do hope thai2english returns.

 

Thanks for the link for the control panel at thai-language where I was able to turn off all the transcription and other site features I don't use or want to see. Makes it much cleaner to look at.

[djayz]

3 hours ago, Foxx said:

In terms of transcription, the best is AUA (as used by AUA, language schools using the Union method, and many universities).  It's used on the website thai-notes.com, which includes a Thai-English, English-Thai Dictionary with a "bulk lookup" feature, so one can not only look up individual words, but also whole sentences.  There's also Haas' Thai-English learners' Dictionary, and an Etymology Dictionary.  There's also a tool that transcribes Thai.

 

https://thai-notes.com/

https://thai-notes.com/dictionaries/predictionarysearch.html

https://thai-notes.com/dictionaries/haas.html

https://thai-notes.com/dictionaries/etymdict.html

https://thai-notes.com/tools/thai2ipa.html

 

thai-language.com also supports this transcription, though you have to turn it on under Site Settings

 

http://thai-language.com/default.aspx?nav=control

 

There's the main dictionary at

 

http://thai-language.com/dict/search

 

The "dumper truck" icon turns on "bulk lookup".

That's brilliant! Thank you. 

[ningnong]

Good news, thai2english.com is back online!

 

[KhunBENQ]

1 hour ago, ningnong said:

Good news, thai2english.com is back online!

 

Thanks for the good news!

While thailanguage.com is a multi purpose site I prefer thai2english for the easy/simple use.

[djayz]

On 4/12/2023 at 8:07 AM, ningnong said:

Good news, thai2english.com is back online!

 

Great news!