The Fundamentals Of The Thai Language

[Neeranam]

I remember when I first came to Thailand my sister had a copy of this book.

I looked at it and thought no way will I ever learn this language.

A few years later - still learning!

A friend is wanting myself and my wife to teach him Thai and I remembered this book.

Can it still be bought? It was over 15 years ago that my sister bought it. I've only seen it once, about 5 years ago in a Bangkok bookshop.

[ProfessorFart]

I've seen them in Shaman Books on Khao San Road.

[dr_Pat_Pong]

Asia Bookshops had some a few months ago.

[Richard W]

Asia Bookshops had some a few months ago.

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And pirate copies are available on the Internet.

[taxexile]

its on the net , every chapter.

if you havent found it by next week when i get back to my computer in bangkok i will post the address.

ooops , didnt see the above post.

Edited October 13, 2005 by taxexile

[withnail]

Actually the version available on the internet as an ebook (which I have if anyones interested) doesn't contain everything the real book does. Mainly just vocabulary from the various chapters is missing.

I found the book here www.abebooks.com

[Richard W]

Actually the version available on the internet as an ebook (which I have if anyones interested) doesn't contain everything the real book does. Mainly just vocabulary from the various chapters is missing.

I found the book here www.abebooks.com

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The version I know is available as a help file and as a set of HTML files. It claims to be a copy of the 5th edition, but when I checked Chapter 16 and the dates in the introduction against my hardback version I found some differences:

• In the electronic copy, the preface to the second edition is dated 1962, not 1862.
  
• In Section 16.A.4 the impossible pronunciation 'GHORP' has been corrected to 'CHORP', and the translation has been improved from 'Some people like, some don't like' to 'Some people like, some people don't'.
  
• In 16.B.3 each of subsections (a), ( and © has 10 examples, as opposed to 12, 9 and 9 in the hardback version.
  

I do remember that chunks were missing from the contents section, but they can be found by follwoing the links to the next section. There are also two new appendices - the information in Appendix 10, an English-Thai dictionary, has been converted to two English-Thai dictionaries, one sorted in Thai and the other by transliteration.