Newish site for intermediate students of the Thai language

[peter37]

I am absolutely delighted to have recently discovered a fantastic on-line aid for Thai language students: aakanee.com It helps to fill that great resource-gap for intermediate learners of the Thai language.

I do not think it has been around long because the copyright refers to 2015-2016. The web site “About” section reveals the person who has put it together is called Andrej and he/she could not get a bigger thumbs up from me for the web site content.

[eric67]

Yeah I agree, it's a terrific resource.

I'm waiting to see what (or if) he's going to do with Northern Khmer. Not many resources for that as far as I know.

It's been around for a few years though.

Before it was called thairecordings.com

[Aforek]

I just had a look , but it seems to be very good; I like to have in the same the text and the pronounciation, here, there is a lot !

[smo]

This is a terrific site. For me it’s a godsend. Out are all the ( mana manee bor 1, 2 and 3 on and on) books that I have accumulated via my thai teacher and so far have done me little good. She’s not a teacher by profession, so I can’t blame her. But the fact that she expected me to instinctly know how a word should sound, ie to be able to tell when a word is pronounced wrong or right, not to mention that my vocabulary is not as encompassing as that of even a one and a half year old thai child, really made it hard for me to progress.

Here come these lessons dealing with a small chunk of very fundamental vocabulary (put on your shirt, take off your shoes, stir the pot, etc…) at a time, via simple illustrations and audio narrative ( with lots I mean lots of repetition from a very patient and "hand-holding" sounding female speaker) that makes it a lot of fun for the learner (me) but unfortunately elicits instant yawns on the part of my teacher. I like to start our session with me putting up the drawings, turn on the audio and then myself acting out along with the narrative. After that is reading and comprehension. And finally dictation (from what has been learned from previous session). My homework consists of culling new words, and most exciting of all, is be able to see those words that are almost same sounding but have different tonations and spelling side by side. This helps my vocabulary building tremendously! My next step is to narrate the lesson myself.

Thank you so very much.

[tavernier]

Peter37, many thanks for introducing me to aakanee.com. Trying to keep up with the spoken and written words on 'thai recordings' is exactly the sort of learning aid I have wanted for years. Now I hope my brain will cope.

Anymore web sites of this nature would be welcome.