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Easy Thai: An Introduction to the Thai Language
Easy Thai is the perfect introduction to learning the spoken language of Thailand. This basic and simple approach uses lessons which incorporate review lists and exercises with answer keys.
120 pages, Paperback
First published December 15, 1969
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September 17, 2011
I would describe this book as an introduction to the Thai script rather than a book for learning the colloquial spoken language.
I learned spoken Thai through Colloquial Thai but needed to learn the script in an easy way, and overall I was pleased with this book. You learn the consonants and vowels in a gradual way, training your skills through translations and other exercises.
I would have liked more coverage of the tone rules, the book teaches the essential and most important rules, but not all rules are included.
Some people don't mind this, I do.
So for learning the most important parts of Thai script this was a good book to use, if you want a really comprehensive book you need to look elsewhere.
I learned spoken Thai through Colloquial Thai but needed to learn the script in an easy way, and overall I was pleased with this book. You learn the consonants and vowels in a gradual way, training your skills through translations and other exercises.
I would have liked more coverage of the tone rules, the book teaches the essential and most important rules, but not all rules are included.
Some people don't mind this, I do.
So for learning the most important parts of Thai script this was a good book to use, if you want a really comprehensive book you need to look elsewhere.
July 25, 2022
I bought this book sometime between 1973 and 1975, while I was in grade school, between grades 3 and 5. This was purchased during a weekend trip to the local mall. This was the first or second book I purchased under the Charles E. Tuttle Company book imprint as a paperback for language reference.
Other reviewers have indicated and emphasized that this is NOT a book for learning the colloquial language, nor was it a book for travelers in the country, and nor does it presently contain copious amounts of specialized communicative vocabulary for particular purposes.
It is, however a very basic introduction to the general rules for reading and writing the Thai language, and how consonants and vowels are placed together to form words.
I own the original 1969 edition, which has a different color cover and design, but was still issued in paperback, as was intended by the original author.
This book does perform and fulfill its original purpose when others of a similar nature are not available for use. The same holds true today. For me, this seems some fifty years too late.
Other reviewers have indicated and emphasized that this is NOT a book for learning the colloquial language, nor was it a book for travelers in the country, and nor does it presently contain copious amounts of specialized communicative vocabulary for particular purposes.
It is, however a very basic introduction to the general rules for reading and writing the Thai language, and how consonants and vowels are placed together to form words.
I own the original 1969 edition, which has a different color cover and design, but was still issued in paperback, as was intended by the original author.
This book does perform and fulfill its original purpose when others of a similar nature are not available for use. The same holds true today. For me, this seems some fifty years too late.
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