Hi there,

My level in Thai (both speaking and reading) is intermediate.

From past experience while learning foreign languages, I see TV news as a very useful tool to develop practical language skills. The reasons are:

- The text is prepared (full, correct sentences)

- It is clearly spoken at normal speed

- Both vocabulary and style are formal, polite, and can be conveniently used in usual circumstances

- The footage illustrates the topic

- Most topics are of general interest

- If downloaded, it can be replayed as often as necessary to catch the details

But in the case of Thai language, I think Thai subtitles can really speed up the learning process (ease the decoding/understanding and offer some memory support).

Therefor, I'm looking for Thai news programs with Thai subtitles (like those for impaired viewers) to download.

I'm not interested in movies, series or other entertainment programs since they hardly fit the bill (see list above).

I checked a little in the forum topic list but couldn't find it.

Any idea of where to find it or even if it does exist? A 2nd line of subtitles (in English) would just be fabulous but I think I'm asking for too much there

Thanks for any info.

Mitker

Your general idea is sound - your formal Thai will progress quickly this way.

It is clearly spoken at normal speed

I find that often the Thai TV news are spoken at above average speed. But nevertheless your other points are correct, and there are definite advantages to following the news and learning to keep up with them. I found this link for deaf people, which has a list of shows that have Thai subtitles ( under the header รายการที่มีคำบรรยายภาษาไทย ). Hope that helps to serve as a starting point. http://nadt.thport.com/TVwithsignlanguage.html

There are many news clips here with a script of what the newscaster is saying beneath the video.

http://www.ch7.com/index.aspx

There are many news clips here with a script of what the newscaster is saying beneath the video.

http://www.ch7.com/index.aspx

Incidenatally the videos can be downloaded with realplayer downloader and the script can be copied and pasted.

http://www.krobkruakao.com/kkn/?a=homepage used to do that, but the link seems to be dead now...

also MCOT has a few like this:http://www.mcot.net/cfcustom/cache_page/145853.html

Your general idea is sound - your formal Thai will progress quickly this way.

It is clearly spoken at normal speed

I find that often the Thai TV news are spoken at above average speed. But nevertheless your other points are correct, and there are definite advantages to following the news and learning to keep up with them. I found this link for deaf people, which has a list of shows that have Thai subtitles ( under the header รายการที่มีคำบรรยายภาษาไทย ). Hope that helps to serve as a starting point. http://nadt.thport.c...gnlanguage.html

Interesting link. Their list gives a fair amount of info.

I checked a few links to viewable former programs with subtitles but the small format of the compressed video makes subtitles unreadable.

I'd rather check the live programs on TV they list.

Thanks for that :jap:

There are many news clips here with a script of what the newscaster is saying beneath the video.

http://www.ch7.com/index.aspx

That's a very good source: the written script makes it very easy to read and convenient to copy/paste on an internet translation tool for instant translation of specific words.

Great.

Thanks!

http://www.krobkruak...kkn/?a=homepage used to do that, but the link seems to be dead now...

indeed..

also MCOT has a few like this:http://www.mcot.net/cfcustom/cache_page/145853.html

This link is even better (the Channel 7 video format doesn't seem to allow for partial replay of the video, only full length).

I think I'll try with this one first.

Thx again and best wishes to all

Your general idea is sound - your formal Thai will progress quickly this way.

It is clearly spoken at normal speed

I find that often the Thai TV news are spoken at above average speed. But nevertheless your other points are correct, and there are definite advantages to following the news and learning to keep up with them. I found this link for deaf people, which has a list of shows that have Thai subtitles ( under the header รายการที่มีคำบรรยายภาษาไทย ). Hope that helps to serve as a starting point. http://nadt.thport.c...gnlanguage.html

Interesting link. Their list gives a fair amount of info.

I checked a few links to viewable former programs with subtitles but the small format of the compressed video makes subtitles unreadable.

I'd rather check the live programs on TV they list.

Thanks for that :jap:

There is a very good Thai TV site called Doolakorn.com.

The videos are very clear and so far I've found 3 series of shows

with clearly readable subtitles. There are probably some more

just have to find them.

They also download w/ realplayer download.

http://www.doolakorntv.com/ดูรายการ-ล้อ_เล่น_โลก-ย้อนหลัง.html

http://www.doolakorntv.com/ดูรายการ-หนังพาไป-ย้อนหลัง.html

http://www.doolakorntv.com/ดูรายการ-กบนอกกะลา-ย้อนหลัง.html

Link to Political Talk show series with " Koon Sonthi" Good quality video.

Verbatim transcripts included.

http://www.manager.co.th/politics/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9530000181192

But wait, theres more.

http://www.manager.co.th/Home/Sitemap.aspx

under breaking news under หน้า 1 ออนไลน์

click ข่าวหน้า 1 look for the ones with the video monitor icon.

These I can’t download, but here is a sample of one that also has

a you tube version that can download.

http://www.manager.co.th/Home/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9540000000250

sample from this link บทสัมภาษณ์

http://www.manager.co.th/Home/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9530000038727

There is also more where Khun Sonthi came from. Additional links on the side.

http://www.manager.co.th/Politics/ViewNews.aspx?NewsID=9480000176440

BTW. Guess what Khun Sonthi has. The ladies giggled when

they said this.

บักหำใหญ่ของคุณสนธ

Chinese movie dubbed in Thai

with Thai subtitles

http://www.doolakorntv.com/ดูซีรีย์-ซูสีไทเฮา-ย้อนหลัง.html

Voice TV is worth checking out. Here are links to 2 samples.

The transcripts are verbatim, good quality, downloadable

http://shows.voicetv.co.th/book-guide/1209-llama-llama-holiday-drama-นิทานดีเพื่อคนทุกวัย.html

http://news.voicetv.co.th/thailand/1775-สองหน่วยงานลงนาม-เอ็มโอยูว่าด้วยความเป็นธรรม.html

There are a couple more series shows dubbed in Thai with Thai subs at showmax site.

http://www.showmax.tv/

scroll down near the bottom and on left above "most read tags"

there is one called Baba Yaya and another called White Spring

There are a couple more series shows dubbed in Thai with Thai subs at showmax site.

http://www.showmax.tv/

scroll down near the bottom and on left above "most read tags"

there is one called Baba Yaya and another called White Spring

Nice one. I'll be checking out these two shows. Thanks for posting the link.

Wow, am I ever glad I stumbled across this posting. Links are all still good. When I lived in Japan and was learning Japanese, Japanese subtitles on the news really helped me out. I was a bit bummed that the news here didn't provide much in the way of subtitles, but now thanks to this link I can study up. Would be great if they added more text to the normal news or TV, but these links a huge help. Many, many thanks--

Mango TV is worth checking out. Good quality.

This is a piece on Miss Thailand 2011 with transcript.

http://www.mangotv.tv/home/program/mango-garden/20110815/2985/จูลี่-พัชริดา-รอดคงคา-คว้า-“มิสไทยแลนด์เวิลด์-2011”/