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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 1 of 6 23 August 2012 at 1:44am | IP Logged |
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Whilst linking to an old blog I had previously found helpful for another thread on this
forum I found that the guy had started a new project: this. I can't believe he's made these available for free (he paid to have them made!). Disclaimer: I'm not learning Thai and have never studied it. Note: I started this thread again because the original title contained a bad typo. 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4667 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 2 of 6 23 August 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged |
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Yes, this looks like a great resource. I just listened to a couple of the recordings, and it certainly is authentic Thai. The speaker “Gun” does sound he’s like a student, and he’s reading rather quickly. In “Going to the Doctor 1” for example, “roong payabaan” or hospital becomes “roong baan” more or less – but that’s the real language for you.
This looks a lot like the project Bakunin was describing in his recent log. Great to see the site is up and running! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5784 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 3 of 6 23 August 2012 at 3:18am | IP Logged |
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Yes, it is Bakunin's, that's the blog I referred to above. Amazing guy. Hopefully lots of
people will let him know how useful this is and he'll keep it up, he explicitly says that such feedback motivates him. Edited by Random review on 23 August 2012 at 3:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ellsworth Senior Member United States Joined 4958 days ago 345 posts - 528 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Irish | Message 4 of 6 23 August 2012 at 4:52am | IP Logged |
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Very cool. Can't wait to check them all out! Thanks for posting.
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| bluejay390 Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6279 days ago 227 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Malay, Italian | Message 5 of 6 24 August 2012 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
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Wow. This is really a fantastic resource! I need to start learning Thai now, haha.
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| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5131 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 6 of 6 24 August 2012 at 7:36pm | IP Logged |
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Yep, that's me :) Thanks for the kind words. The idea grew out of languageimpact.com's Series Method, which is
basically to get your L2 tutor to describe basic activities like preparing a cup of tea. I've experimented a bit with this method and settled for commissioning 3 x 5min audio clips on topics I specify. 5min because it's a nice and compact length, and 3 because I like variety and different angles on the same topic. It was quite useful and a lot of fun in my learning process, and now I've decided to run such a project (including exact transcripts which are made in a second and unrelated step) and make it available online. It's a fun project and I'm curious to see whether other people find it useful. I currently have a speaker for the more general (and a bit more advanced) Storytelling version of that general idea. I have a list of topics and get my speaker to tell stories or experiences related to these topics. There are at least two other formats I would like to play with: the proper Series Method (which makes for easier audio clips, I guess, but who knows), and a Dialogue format, which might be a bit more advanced than the Storytelling format but also more challenging to organize. Edited by Bakunin on 24 August 2012 at 7:38pm 8 persons have voted this message useful |
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