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.

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

Nice link. Thank you.

'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.

Wow, this is good. Thanks.

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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