Intermediate Thai Resources

[kokesaat]

If you can read basic Thai, 'Everyday Thai for Beginners' by Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs is an excellent book/CD. Wiworn has been a professor at the University of Washington since the early 1990's.....she designed this book for her students. Each lesson introduces a digestible amount of vocabulary, followed by patterns, then grammar, and drills. Lessons also contain a variety of activities to reinforce the lesson's goals. The speed of the speakers is a bit slow, but it's ultra clear.......easy to follow through each lesson. It sort of follows the AUA-style format, without the annoying transliterated Thai. I bought my book/CD through Asiabooks, online, delivered to Udon for 720 baht. It's also available from Amazon.com

A second resource for more intermediate level reading/listening is available online, free, from http://siamwestdc.com/thaireader-UH/index.htm This book was developed by Thomas Gething and Pongsuwan T. Bilmes for the University of Hawaii. There are 56 lessons....each lesson has a sound file and a pdf file. I've only gone through 2 lessons thus far, but the quality of the recordings is excellent. The pdf files contain the lesson's reading, followed by a series of questions.

[kikenyoy]

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

[MKAsok]

Nice link. Thank you.

[desi]

'Everyday Thai for Beginners' is one of my favourites for that very same reason - no transliteration. You can also get it in Thailand and overseas from DCO books and I believe their shipping is cheaper (for inside Thailand anyway). I also found it in Paragon, at both bookstores.

Thanks for the heads up for the Thai Basic Reader. Nice.

[Gaccha]

Wow, this is good. Thanks.

[keo]

A second resource for more intermediate level reading/listening is available online, free, from http://siamwestdc.com/thaireader-UH/index.htm This book was developed by Thomas Gething and Pongsuwan T. Bilmes for the University of Hawaii. There are 56 lessons....each lesson has a sound file and a pdf file. I've only gone through 2 lessons thus far, but the quality of the recordings is excellent. The pdf files contain the lesson's reading, followed by a series of questions.

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