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Mashimaro
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 Posted: Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:38 pm Post subject: Want to learn Thai - Book recommendations please |
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I'm looking for a good thai language textbook.
Any tips?
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Mashimaro
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:16 am Post subject: |
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| A rare occasion that Dave's has been stumped? |
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Tiger Beer
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
| A rare occasion that Dave's has been stumped? |
its too concrete, and nothing where people can throw out unrelated random opinions.. perhaps you can rephrase your question to either involve koreans or canadians or bush-related topics if you want this baby to reach page 2.  |
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Mashimaro
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:37 am Post subject: |
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| Tiger Beer wrote: |
| Mashimaro wrote: |
| A rare occasion that Dave's has been stumped? |
its too concrete, and nothing where people can throw out unrelated random opinions.. perhaps you can rephrase your question to either involve koreans or canadians or bush-related topics if you want this baby to reach page 2. |
hehe Seems a lot of people are interested in Thai beaches and prostitutes but not so many want to learn the language apparently |
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Guri Guy
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:24 am Post subject: |
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I would suggest searching the internet. www.ajarn.com probably would be a good place to check. I have a Thai book on learning to read and write. That seems sufficiently hard but I have heard after you master that and the tones, the grammar is pretty straight forward. Good luck.  |
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gang ah jee
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
| hehe Seems a lot of people are interested in Thai beaches and prostitutes but not so many want to learn the language apparently |
Get a prostitute to teach you - that's what the sexpats do! |
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Mashimaro
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject: |
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| gang ah jee wrote: |
| Mashimaro wrote: |
| hehe Seems a lot of people are interested in Thai beaches and prostitutes but not so many want to learn the language apparently |
Get a prostitute to teach you - that's what the sexpats do! |
I bet their thai is about as good as your average teacher here speaks korean |
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gang ah jee
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| Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2006 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Mashimaro wrote: |
| I bet their thai is about as good as your average teacher here speaks korean |
Quite possibly better actually - Thai is easier for Indo-European speakers than Korean. The problem is that bargirls usually speak a pretty stigmatised sociolect, which if spoken by foreigners instantly marks them as 'farang kinok' (ie, birdsh*t foreigner - something unpleasant that comes from the sky)
I've never lived in Thailand though, so this is all hearsay. |
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