Searching For A Book

[davidbkk]

Hi, I am trying to purchase a copy of a book called "Speaking Thai II" by "Sriwilai Ponmanee" but can not find it anywhere (tried Asia, Kinokunya,See-ed,Chula,B2S). Does anyone have any idea where I might find a copy in Bangkok? Thanks

[BambinA]

my idea

1 goto somewhere Univ. Library, search for ISBN and xe'rox

2 contact her via email /letter "Sriwilai Ponmanee"

Associate Professor Sriwilai Ponmanee (Director)

Faculty of Education (Dept of Secondary Education)

Center for Teaching Thai as a Foreign Language

Chiang Mai 50200

Thailand

Tel:053 221285

Email: Edsdi007@chiangmai.ac.th

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Sriwilai Ponmanee

Teaching Thai Faculty of education

The Faculty of education

Chaing Mai University

239 Huay Geaw Rd, T.Suthep

A.Meung

Chaing Mai

50200

Tel. 0 5394 4272, 0 5394 4208 Fax 0 5394 4251

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[Farside]

Hi, I am trying to purchase a copy of a book called "Speaking Thai II" by "Sriwilai Ponmanee" but can not find it anywhere (tried Asia, Kinokunya,See-ed,Chula,B2S). Does anyone have any idea where I might find a copy in Bangkok? Thanks

Thai is a tone language therefore a book isn't really any use is it. I would really love to learn thai, But to do that i would have to learn from actually speaking to a thai person and not reading a book, Thai language has 5 different tones so therefore i think 1 word could mean 5 different things depending on what tone you use, Correct? This is probably why i get some funny looks from people whenever i try speak thai haha

[davidbkk]

Thanks very much bambina, i'll try those.

Farside, books are great, once you can read thai you usually know which tone a word is.

try 'Thai for beginners' by benjamin poomsan becker if you want to learn, you can get it with tapes or cds and hear the tones and learn how to read and write. when learning in the uk, i used to record myself repeating the vocabulary on the cds to try and get the tones. getting there now, but a long way to go still.

[Steph1012]

teachthai.com is very useful. Its also totally free and was recommended by the Bangkok Post a few months ago. I am interested to hear of any other similar sites.

I learned to read Thai a few years ago when I realised that most of my existing Thai was only understood in context - try reading out random words in isolation to your partner, teacher or friend and see how many they actually recognise.

Its been a fantastic ride and the more I learn, the more I realise I had misuderstood and mispronounced preciously.

Good luck to all