How about a new forum for learning the Thai language.

There must be lots of useful tips people can contribute here, and it all comes in use :-)

Of particular interest to me at the moment is a list of online web resources with words to learn, well hey something to do at work, lol.

Regards

For some of the contributions made on here perhaps one dealing wiv de Engrish langwige might not come amiss.

Excellent idea.

There are some important rules that I must impose.

1) People are not allowed to write in crappy transliteration.

2) No translation services (especially for silly old men dating girls young enough to be their grand daughter).

Eg: "My 'tee lak' said to me 'shan lak khun mahhhk mahhhk - shan mai mee ngern'. What does this mean?"

3) There should be some means of typing in Thai language.

Incidentally, for those studying Thai reading. Look at the weekly column in Fridays Nation. Its good.

This site is handy learn thai have alook see what you think

I may be a bit biased in saying this, but I have found a brilliant website, run by Sriwittayapaknam School.

These kids and I gather teachers, have put together a quite extensive and free service.

Helpfull downloads and on-site functions. You can't go wrong here, with this one.

Visual, sound, how to write text correctly, plus more..all this by thai people for everybody else to use.

Check out the site, as it is very in depth.

LearningThai.Com

Have a nice day all,

Garry

p.s. Oh yes, I'm not thai, but I am big supporter of the average Joe.

That's the site I just put the link in for Garry, I echo your thoughts exactly.

Here here...bronco and gary !!

How about a new forum for learning the Thai language.

There must be lots of useful tips people can contribute here, and it all comes in use :-)

Of particular interest to me at the moment is a list of online web resources with words to learn, well hey something to do at work, lol.

Regards

It is a good idea Daz Daz....it'll be done

Wow !

What a site!

Garry receives a blessing.

Pointless wasting Thaivisa bandwidth when there are sites like this.

That's a great site. I hope they manage to keep it clean and their chatroom does not turn into a hunting ground.

The chat room is very good and dickheads are usually disposed of quickly. The chat site is actually located in europe and is well maintainted and not subject to the same provider probs occasionally experienced in Thailand.

All done Daz...THAI LANGUAGE away ya go

There's another site, at thai-language.com, for those interested.

Neither site captures what it is like to speak the language every day. People seem to turn into academics or self-proclaimed experts of the ''I understand 99% of what I hear'' variety. Almost all the posters live overseas and I imagine get limited opportunities to speak or hear the language.

Both they are both useful sites nonetheless.

That's the site I just put the link in for Garry, I echo your thoughts exactly.

Wow Bronco, you beat me by 17 seconds...LOL