VOA Thai news self study website totally updated

[starrdog]

I wanted to let people know that I've just finished going over all the transcriptions and translations at http://www.selfstudythai.com/ and made a huge number of changes. For those not familiar with the site, there are over 50 news articles from the http://www.voathai.com/ website, broken apart so you can read and listen to them line by line with English translations. And yes, it's free. For those who are familiar with the old site and think it kind of sucked, I agree which is why I've never mentioned it here before. I'm still far from fluent, but I have learned a lot over the past year since I started the website, and I think the new changes reflect this. Even ignoring the translations, the site can still be used like http://thairecordings.com/ as the articles have been altered where necessary to follow the audio. Also since the Thai text and audio are presented line by line, it makes a great tool for practicing reading as well. I hope some of you find the site useful!

[RickBradford]

There are also extensive vocabulary lists following each article.

A great resource. Congratulations!

[Aforek]

Thank you for your work! very, very useful for me ; I did it alone with news that I registered, printed and translated by myself , but with your site, it's much better ; reading, translation and sound in same time, it's the best

[Gaccha]

Wow! I did an example article of how I would like to see the perfect language tool for the 'Women learning Thai' website... and it looked awfully similar to the articles on your website. Just fantastic.

I have been trying to translate 2 awesome Japanese-Thai language books to English but was blocked by the publishers. They cannot do it themselves or let me do it as it breaches their charity's constitution. Oh well. Great to see things are improving...

[starrdog]

Wow! I did an example article of how I would like to see the perfect language tool for the 'Women learning Thai' website... and it looked awfully similar to the articles on your website.

Hi Gaccha,

Your "Red Shirts" article is excellent! I actually used to link to it back when I was low on content, though I took it and a few other links out recently only because they are a single examples, and I wanted to put emphasis on the larger resource pools. For those who haven't seen it, check it out: http://womenlearnthai.com/index.php/the-red-shirts-thai-reading-and-listening/ Thanks so much for your kind comments. And thanks to Rick and Aforek as well!

Mike

[desi]

Wow! I did an example article of how I would like to see the perfect language tool for the 'Women learning Thai' website... and it looked awfully similar to the articles on your website. Just fantastic.

Gaccha, would you be willing to donate those files (and any others) to Thai Text Reader? We already have donated files from Self Study Thai: http://thaitextreader.com/index.php/downloads/self-study-thai/

We do point people to external resources but they then have to prepare the files for FLTR (strip them down to Thai script only, separate into manageable chunks, save as txt files). That means many hands doing the same job over again.

Note: When I get the time I'll go through all of the donated files to make sure all words are in our Thai dictionary, then parse them, ready for upload.

[Gaccha]

Wow! I did an example article of how I would like to see the perfect language tool for the 'Women learning Thai' website... and it looked awfully similar to the articles on your website. Just fantastic.

Gaccha, would you be willing to donate those files (and any others) to Thai Text Reader? We already have donated files from Self Study Thai: http://thaitextreader.com/index.php/downloads/self-study-thai/

We do point people to external resources but they then have to prepare the files for FLTR (strip them down to Thai script only, separate into manageable chunks, save as txt files). That means many hands doing the same job over again.

Note: When I get the time I'll go through all of the donated files to make sure all words are in our Thai dictionary, then parse them, ready for upload.

Here is the Word version (I think). I assume this is better than the PDF version, right? And I can only be 90% sure it is the complete version. I last modified the file in 2010.

On a related front. I'm hoping my Pulp Fiction Advanced listening on YouTube will also one day be like the standard for listening practice for movies and the like.

Red shirts are coming Desi file .doc

[desi]

Thanks Gaccha. I'll compare it to the pdf version I have on the site.

Pulp Fiction Advanced listening on YouTube - I knew you did another one but couldn't remember exactly. Thanks for the reminder, it's good stuff :-)