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| Po-ru Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5480 days ago 173 posts - 235 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish, Norwegian, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 6 19 August 2011 at 7:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I am interested in starting Thai, maybe getting to a conversational level or something
like that in the next year. I just began looking at various internet resources and became incredibly overwhelmed by the writing system. I'm not really sure how to go about starting it or learning it. I am not good with memorization and learn better through use and application. For example, I never studied hangul, hiragana, or katakan per say, but I learned these systems through coming to recognize that phonetic representations repeat themselves and coming to be familiar with them in that way. Is this even possible with Thai? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 6 19 August 2011 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I developed the approach at http://www.learnlangs.com/Korean and found that it
works really well for me. Now I created a script to automatically find the best order to introduce letters in and to give me the bare bones of such a course for any language I desire - I created a course for Ukrainian in less than 12 hours that way. I can set it to work on Thai and send you the raw output by e-mail, should be good enough to go on. Edited by Sprachprofi on 19 August 2011 at 10:08pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6550 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 3 of 6 21 August 2011 at 12:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Unlike any other "phonetic" script, Thai requires extensive usage to get comfortable with it. We're talking hundreds
of hours here. So anything you can do to attack it from another angle, like memorizing the characters in isolation, is a good idea. Even though you're not good at it, I recommend doing it as best as you can. I'm not saying it's impossible to learn without, but I imagine it will make a difficult task even more difficult. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| nakrian keegiat Diglot Groupie Thailand Joined 4907 days ago 70 posts - 172 votes Speaks: English*, Thai Studies: Russian | Message 4 of 6 21 August 2011 at 4:22am | IP Logged | ||
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This app has received good reviews: http://appsto.com/thaisquiggles
It only teaches the consonants though. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5495 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 5 of 6 05 September 2011 at 8:41pm | IP Logged | ||
Maybe it's just my computer/browser, but when I try the link it says there is a 403 Forbidden error AND a 404 Not Found error. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6470 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 6 of 6 05 September 2011 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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The URL changed. Use http://www.learnlangs.com/RWP/Korean .
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