Learn Thai With Manee Books

[thaibkk]

I am looking for the old Learn Thai with Manee books which where used to teach Thai to Thai school children

there are not printed anymore but maybe someone has them ?

would you sell them to me or eventually scan and email them ?

idea is to make a free and interactive website with it

[Offroadlanna]

There is an online version of this book at Manee and Friends which possibly could be something similar to what you want to do

[carnac]

A more grown up approach would be to start with Easy Thai by Gordon H. Allison / Tuttle Pubishing / Available Asia Books....The book has 16 lessons. You learn the Thai alphabet, some vocabulary, etc. In the process you are practicing writing Thai. The book is designed to be a gradual and cumulative system without wasting any time. Anyway it provides a solid foundation.

[Scott]

I am not sure why you posted this thread in this forum. It might be better placed in the Thai language forum. I will leave it here for now, but if you are not getting the answers you are looking for and want it moved, let me or another moderator know.

(Don't post it in another thread, however, as it is against the rules to have the same topic in two threads.

[orpheus454]

A more grown up approach would be to start with Easy Thai by Gordon H. Allison / Tuttle Pubishing / Available Asia Books....The book has 16 lessons. You learn the Thai alphabet, some vocabulary, etc. In the process you are practicing writing Thai. The book is designed to be a gradual and cumulative system without wasting any time. Anyway it provides a solid foundation.

Yep, but you use the Manee/Marna books after that as graded reading practice, and indeed aculturation.

Many years ago I used the "Fundamentals of the Thai Language" (5th Edition) (dunno why I remember that, but I do...) then the Marnee/Marna books. Didn't get to the year 6 books, from memory only got to about year 4 before I could read the newspaper, so then practised there instead.