bankei Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 A new reading text book for Thai, Thai Reader, is now available for download from http://readingthai.wisc.edu/index.html. by Robert J. Bickner Professor (Thai) and Chair Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia University of Wisconsin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groongthep Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 I've only taken a few moments to look this over but on first impression it looks to be a terrific learning tool. Thank you very much for posting it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tod Daniels Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Someone obviously went to a LOT of time and trouble to make this resource, especially as it's free. I wholeheartedly concur; thanx for posting the link !!! (Maybe the mods can change the title to "New FREE E-Book on Learning to Read Thai" to better reflect it is free and online) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckamuck Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Thanks for posting that, I think it will be quite useful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokesaat Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Fantastic find! I'm still working on Thomas Gething's reader and Vol II by Professor Bickner will be a great follow-on. Now.......if only the readings were recorded!!!!! While Gething's reader is dated, his lessons follow a nice pattern of introducing new vocabulary/patterns, then repeating them in follow-on lessons. While I haven't had the opportunity to see if Bickner does the same, I'll take a guess that he does....as that seems to be the pattern of teaching in the US. Thanks for the link!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikker Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 At last! This has been a long time coming. Very glad to see it finally released to the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leah Posted February 20, 2010 Share Posted February 20, 2010 Looks great. now if only it weren't in PDF format.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrubble Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 an impressive and useful resource for all of us. A western quality text, with Thai styled voice. A+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel_Mustard Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Whenever I click on the link I get: Directory Listing Denied This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed. Any ideas on what the problem is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimShortz Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Me too... any ideas anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimShortz Posted March 26, 2010 Share Posted March 26, 2010 Here I go; talking to myself again... The answer to my own question is that you need the actual page name included in the URL to get to the page, hence the link needs to be: http://readingthai.wisc.edu/index.html Hoorah! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rikker Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 The link used to work without specifying index.html, I think. They must have hamfistedly tweaked something. In any case, I just updated the link in the original post to avoid further confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimShortz Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 The link used to work without specifying index.html, I think. They must have hamfistedly tweaked something.In any case, I just updated the link in the original post to avoid further confusion. I think the reason the link no longer works without the actual name of the index file is that they've made it so that you can't search the site index, and hence you can't use a website download programme (e.g. httrack) to download the whole site to your hard drive - I know it doesn't work; I tried (just to test the theory of course..)! I guess many people would do this for fear of such a great bunch of PDF files disappearing from the web were the site to close down. The site total is about 160mb if you download all of the PDFs (which you are perfectly at liberty to do so long as you do them individually now!) and I guess people downloading the whole site was giving them massive traffic that they didn't want or couldn't sustain on their server... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kokesaat Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 The link used to work without specifying index.html, I think. They must have hamfistedly tweaked something.In any case, I just updated the link in the original post to avoid further confusion. I think the reason the link no longer works without the actual name of the index file is that they've made it so that you can't search the site index, and hence you can't use a website download programme (e.g. httrack) to download the whole site to your hard drive - I know it doesn't work; I tried (just to test the theory of course..)! I guess many people would do this for fear of such a great bunch of PDF files disappearing from the web were the site to close down. The site total is about 160mb if you download all of the PDFs (which you are perfectly at liberty to do so long as you do them individually now!) and I guess people downloading the whole site was giving them massive traffic that they didn't want or couldn't sustain on their server... Now if someone could come up with mp3 files that go along with the pdf files (as in Thomas Gethings Intermediate Reader series), the result would be one heck of a learning aid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaccha Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Looks great. now if only it weren't in PDF format.... I can think of two issues concerning you: -it's slow to load because it's PDF -you can't 'extract' the Thai and paste it somewhere else Fear not, simply download 'Foxit reader' for free. It is way faster than PDF (the files open instantly) and it allows text extraction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokrick Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 (edited) Thanks for the link. Cheers, Rick Edited March 27, 2010 by bangkokrick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaccha Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Fantastic find! I'm still working on Thomas Gething's reader and Vol II by Professor Bickner will be a great follow-on. Now.......if only the readings were recorded!!!!!While Gething's reader is dated, his lessons follow a nice pattern of introducing new vocabulary/patterns, then repeating them in follow-on lessons. While I haven't had the opportunity to see if Bickner does the same, I'll take a guess that he does....as that seems to be the pattern of teaching in the US. Thanks for the link!! No. It specifically rejects this style of learning. Please see the lengthy explanation of modern learning methods here: http://readingthai.wisc.edu/thai-reader-site-intro.html The text is intended to develop text interpretation skills and not to increase vocabulary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parvis Posted March 29, 2010 Share Posted March 29, 2010 (edited) Everybody always falls in love with his/her "pet theory" especially if formulated by him/her. Learning-methods is a "tough subject" - much "controversy and ignorance" persists. I tend believe more those who evaluate a theory on this subject - not their own - and have at least a Phd in Neuroscience and Neurobiology incl. Psychology. In other words the best method for you is "to study the Language" rather than the controversy around "the best methods". Edited March 29, 2010 by Parvis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murf Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Page cannot be found... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 Page cannot be found... I think the link has been misposted. I removed the index.html and it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makescents Posted April 4, 2010 Share Posted April 4, 2010 The page has been renamed to htm rather than html. http://readingthai.wisc.edu/index.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoloFlyer Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 So can someone who has downloaded them all post them here as a zipfile perhaps?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
makescents Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 So can someone who has downloaded them all post them here as a zipfile perhaps?? http://rapidshare.com/files/372303388/Thai_Reading.rar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoloFlyer Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 that is very kind of you, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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