One of the most difficult steps in Thai is getting your head around the many fonts. Thai fonts are not optimized for legibility to say the least. The only way is to open texts in a word processor and apply different fonts.

 

I have had success downloading fonts from the page below. Once you've downloaded the fonts you need to transfer them to the font registry on your device. I use Pages on a MacBook and the whole procedure was not too much of a hassle.

 

https://thaifaces.com/?page=5

 

 

Replying to my own post in order to include a font page that works even better than the previous one. Here all the fonts seem to be downloadable for free:

 

https://thaifonts.org

On 5/19/2024 at 8:19 AM, JackGats said:

The only way is to open texts in a word processor and apply different fonts.

 

Oh, tosh.

 

There are web pages that teach you how to read various fonts, for example:

https://thai-notes.com/notes/readingmodernfonts1.html

(That's the first of four pages on the subject.)

There are also alphabet flashcards that include modern fonts, for example:

https://thai-notes.com/games/alphabetcards.html

The Thai Reader at the same site allows you to select a modern font.

https://thai-notes.com/reading/thaireader.html

And that's only some of the resources from one site.  Other sites have similar features. 

On 5/29/2024 at 10:33 AM, Foxx said:

 

Oh, tosh.

 

There are web pages that teach you how to read various fonts, for example:

https://thai-notes.com/notes/readingmodernfonts1.html

(That's the first of four pages on the subject.)

There are also alphabet flashcards that include modern fonts, for example:

https://thai-notes.com/games/alphabetcards.html

The Thai Reader at the same site allows you to select a modern font.

https://thai-notes.com/reading/thaireader.html

And that's only some of the resources from one site.  Other sites have similar features. 

Useful to first learn isolated letters in A FEW different fonts.

 

However the "thaireader" only has "modern font" as alternative to the standard. This "modern font" is essentially the sans serif form of the standard font. Very useful and common but that leaves many common fonts unexplored.

 

A downside of the stories in the thaireader are that they have titles like "The story of the reed and the banyan tree" or "The story of the stork and the fox". Now words like reed, banyan tree, stork and fox can wait for a few years as far as I'm concerned. My memory has no place for them yet.

 

The Aakanee website is down unfortunately, but the texts can be downloaded from the WWW archive:

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20230608222558/http://www.aakanee.com/thai-illustrations.html

 

The recordings and images have been made available on Youtube:

 

 

I recommend practicing reading the texts while applying different fonts, then listening to the spoken text after each image. Listening and following the written text with the eyes is also good training.

On 5/23/2024 at 2:04 PM, JackGats said:

Replying to my own post in order to include a font page that works even better than the previous one. Here all the fonts seem to be downloadable for free:

 

https://thaifonts.org

Thanks for that.  I have downloaded a few fonts.  Not all of them work properly though.  Troublesome word is honey น้ำผึ้ง 

1 minute ago, phil2803 said:

Thanks for that.  I have downloaded a few fonts.  Not all of them work properly though.  Troublesome word is honey น้ำผึ้ง 

Amend the word to " money" ?