Thai for Intermediate Learners

Sehr gut zu lernen Nicht das erste aus dieser Reihe

Excellent for my next step in learning to read and write this wonderful language.

とてもイイ教科書だと思う。 文章力がつきそうです。片手に英語辞書を持ちながら、と言っても平易な英語ですので、平均以上の理解力があれば大丈夫だと思います。 なかなか日本語で読解まで学べる本がないので、お薦めです。私には少々内容が真面目すぎますが、覚えて損のない文章ばかりだと思います。何よりなのが日本語の本に比べて割安感があるところです。注釈や解説文がもう少し多ければ満点。

Finally Poomsan Becker and her use of the horrible International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is gone. This is a dreadful system that has caused so many Thai people troubles when trying to read and pronounce English words. It was not designed by native speakers of English and actually is confusing and difficult to adapt to.This new book assumes you have learned everything from the basic level. It is a hard second step but it is a necessary step. All of the lessons are written in Thai. At the end of the book the English translation is provided. There is absolutely no Thai phonetic in this book. The vocabulary provided is good except at the end when they give transliteration for English names. They also give transliteration of English words where there is actually a Thai equivalent. Why would I want to now how a Thai person says the English word for Bank when there is a Thai word for that? To me that is just promoting laziness and avoiding Thai fluency.Once again you will need to buy the tapes or CD's separately. You may not necessarily need them for this level but I did. If nothing else it is a way to reassure yourself that you are pronouncing things correctly.

I love this series for learning Thai. My book and tapes came in a protective reusable plastic which is nice. The only difficulty was that the tapes it came with.. are tapes. I wouldn't mind but do y'all people out there know how hard it is to find a tape player in this day and age? My old hoopty had no tape player, and a broken CD player. My new car has no tape player at all. I looked for an adapter of sorts but they were expensive. I ended up going to a few different thrift stores and purchased two different tape players/boomboxes before I got one that worked. But if you already have a tape player its no problem. Haha. But I love Benjawan Poomsan Becker's series of books and they have helped me so much for learning Thai, especially vocabulary and writing.