Everyday Thai Speaking

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED (new price with CD)Developed for students in beginning Thai classes outside Thailand, this book and accompanying CD provides a framework for students to use Thai interactively and communicatively through games and various activities. Wiworn Kesavatana-Dohrs is a lecturer in the Department of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Washington.

Everyday Thai Cooking brings you the secrets of cooking delicious Thai food straight from Thailand. Author Siripan Akvanich draws on her years of experience of cooking for her restaurant customers in Thailand to enable you to create authentic Thai dishes, ranging from curries and meat and fish dishes to wonderful Thai desserts. With clear instructions and insider tips, Siripan helps you bring these dishes - many of them traditional family recipes - to life and shows you how to make them a-roi (delicious)! Everyday Thai Cooking shows you how straightforward it can be to cook wonderful Thai food, and how you can juggle the array of tasty and spicy (if you want) flavours to get just the right taste.

Stuart Jay Raj has developed a suite of hand and body signs, glyphs, colourful stories and exercises that will help learners of Thai lay down a new linguistic and cultural operating system for their mind and body. Rather than awkwardly superimpose a new language over the top of the pre-existing non-Thai sound and meaning system of your mother tongue, Cracking Thai Fundamentals will teach you to think about language, culture and meanings, produce meanings, speak, read and react in Thai in a way that much more resembles the way Thais think about and produce their language themselves.

Thai is a fun language to learn, the problem is most learning materials are costly and make language learning too complicated. We've created this book which aims to make language learning simple. We teach you language patterns and grammar structures which can be used to form your own sentences.

Portable and user–friendly, this Thai dictionary, phrasebook, and language guide is the best way to start your vacation. If you only want to purchase one Thai language book, Essential Thai is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Series, it is an excellent beginner guide to the language of Thailand, and is also designed as a phrasebook—making it the most versatile Thai language learning tool on the market. Essential Thai presents the practical language of everyday interactions by incorporating what to say when meeting people, starting conversations, asking and replying to questions, and a basic grammar and pronunciation guide to help you get started speaking Thai the right way, right away. In addition, language involving terms and phrases covering the latest technology, using social media, and tips on the essentials of travel—like arranging accommodations, dining out, and dealing with transportation and emergencies—is also covered in detail. Both Romanized forms, targeted towards Thai learners, and Thai script are incorporated throughout the book. Essential Thai includes : Over 1,500 essential sentences for everyday use A glossary containing over 2,000 useful terms and expressions A handy format for finding the information you need quickly and easily Latest Thai vocabulary and phrases for smartphones, social media, and more. Extensive information about Thai grammar and pronunciation. Whether you're traveling for business, study or just for fun, Essential Thai will prepare you for conversing in Thai without having to take a full language course.

Sounding the Center is an in-depth look at the power behind classical music and dance in Bangkok, the capital and sacred center of Buddhist Thailand. Focusing on the ritual honoring teachers of music and dance, Deborah Wong reveals a complex network of connections among kings, teachers, knowledge, and performance that underlies the classical court arts. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, Wong lays out the ritual in detail: the way it is enacted, the foods and objects involved, and the people who perform it, emphasizing the way the performers themselves discuss and construct aspects of the ceremony.

A complete Thai language course in one book. An easy-to-use Thai language study book for either self-study or to work with a teacher or friend. No phrases. learn by building your own sentences from the very first lesson. FREE online audio, video, exercises and quizzes. Our simple teaching method has been developed over the last 40 years at our leading language school in Phuket. Clear, step-by-step approach to learning the language. Build your skills as you progress through the book. No complicated explanations! We keep it simple to help you learn quickly. From the very first day you’ll be learning how to speak Thai, and before you know it you’ll be speaking like a local! Learn by example. Simple explanations followed by plenty of examples to make sure you grasp the language by using it. Using simple phonetics so you can get started right away, we also include Thai script for a teacher or friend to help you out. We include essential vocabulary in the course along with appendices of the most common words in Thai.

Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. Yet despite efforts over the last century by expeditions from several Western navies, there was no record of a successful crossing—none, that is, until renowned sailor Tristan Jones took on the challenge. To Venture Further is the inspiring story of this memorable exploit by one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time. Accompanied by his German mate, Thomas, and three disabled Thai youths, Jones makes the short but exceedingly difficult passage across the Kra in a small seagoing fishing boat. Facing floating debris, homemade dams, mechanical failure, and precariously low funds, Jones—whose left leg was amputated several years before—remains determined to win out against all obstacles, no matter how insurmountable they seem. With characteristically acerbic wit, Jones offers shrewd commentary on the Westernization of modern Thailand, bemoaning the destruction of a once-idyllic land. And whether confronting a band of raucous teenage monks, outwitting pirates in the Gulf of Thailand, or cruising a dry riverbed by hitching his boat onto an elephant, he continues to exhibit the awesome stubbornness and implacable courage of a man willing to sacrifice all comforts for the unknown and seemingly impossible.

Want to learn and speak real Thai? While most textbooks have you reading rules about the language… With Can Do Thai, you’ll be able to do everyday activities such as… introduce yourself, talk about the weather or your family, give your phone number, count in Thai, and much, much more. You’ll be able to... - Communicate in various real-life scenarios — after every single lesson. - Understand Thai culture and nuances - Understand a ton of words, phrase and grammar rules - Measure your progress with tests on ThaiPod101 Can Do Thai gives you a real-world approach: you learn to speak and understand everyday Thai. You can use this textbook for self-study, with a language partner, or in a classroom. Inside, you get: - 7 units, 24 lessons & 100+ pages - Thai dialogs with translations - Grammar explanations for grammar presented in dialogs - Key vocabulary lists from the dialogue - Writing & speaking exercises - Cultural insights