Archive for May, 2008Learn Thai Lesson 3: Food and Drinks in Thailand (Video)This is the video to our third lesson about Thai food and eating out in Thailand. Whenever you visit Thailand don’t miss out on the variety of great food here. Thai food has a sensational mix of spices that will make almost every foreigners taste buds go crazy. But don’t worry in this lesson you also learn how to ask for “not spicy” food. Learn Thai Lesson 2: Dating and Sweet Things (Video)This is the video for our second lesson about dating in Thailand. You will learn relationship and dating related phrases. Learn Thai Lesson 1: Introduction and Basic Words and Phrases (Video)This is the video for our first lesson. We are right now in the process of adding videos of our old lessons that we just have as mp3 files. We already updated all transcripts and added the right transliteration that also shows the tone marks. Please visit our site about the Thai transliteration system to learn more about the system that we use. It is the one also used by one of the most popular Thai phrase books, the Thai: Lonely Planet Phrasebook. If you just start out with the language don’t get too caught up in learning a Thai transliteration system. It does help but at the end of the day it really matters what you hear and say. As part of our little renovation that is going on we also got rid of the cheering sound in the mp3s of the Dating and Food lesson. The Learn Thai Podcast Premium Course launches on Monday and we also prepare some new free lessons for next week. Enjoy your weekend!  Introduction and Basic Words and Phrases [10:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (Right Click & Save Target As)Learn Thai Lesson / Pronunciation Training: Tongue Twisters (Video)In this lesson you will learn some Thai tongue twisters to train the use of the five tones. Each sentence has many words that sound very similar but have a different pronunciation. Try to repeat these sentences loud if you can or even better (and more fun) say them to a Thai person. We will now always post the transcript of a lesson together with the audio file (see the post below). The next lesson will be about business Thai. So if you have any phrases in mind that are related to this topic (meetings, discussions…) and want them to be included in this lesson just email us! We have been pretty busy working to get everything ready to launch our premium course and we are happy to say that next week we will definitely go live! Learn Thai Lesson: Tongue Twisters (Pronunciation Training) [6:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (Right Click & Save Target As)Learn Thai Lesson / Pronunciation Training: Tongue Twisters (Audio)The mp3 file for this lesson. Please click on the link below to get to the transcript of this lesson.  Learn Thai Lesson / Pronunciation Training: Tongue Twisters (Audio) [6:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (Right Click & Save Target As)Mother’s day in Thailand
Mother’s day is on the 11th of May this year (in western countries). Thailand celebrates their mother’s day on August 12, the Queen’s birthday. I (Jay) will send my mother some presents and will also do the same to Jo’s mother. To explain her what this is all about we made this little mother’s day card in Thai. The text reads: Happy Mother’s Day Until the 11th of May you can send us up to 100 words of text that you want us to translate to Thai for your Thai partner’s mother. Just head over to our Thai translation form and fill it out (and skip the payment after you have submitted the form). We will send you the translated text and a PDF card like the one above that you can print and send to your partner’s mother. Learn Thai Lesson: Emergencies (Video) / Does it work on your iPod?This is just a short update and one of our first vodcasts (video podcasts). We still have our old iPods that don’t support videos so it would be awesome if you could test it on your iPod if you have one of the more recent ones and can watch the video on it. Please contact us and let us know what iPod (or other mobile device) you have and how if it worked. Any suggestions how we can improve the video are of course welcome as well. Learn Thai Lesson: Emergencies (Video): Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (Right Click & Save Target As) |
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