Speak Thai (Flood)

Speak Thai: The Easiest Way to Learn Thai and Speak Immediately , Daniel Flood (2019)

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There are lots of free ebooks out there, so many that I've stopped downloading things just because they were free. But every now and then, a title pops up that intrigues me. If a newsgroup online (okay, it was really a "subreddit"), the author posted a link, stating that the book was free for a short time.

His approach makes sense: you don't need an extensive book that covers everything. ou won't see a zebra in Thailand, so you don't need to say it. On the other hand, there are too many references to "ask a native speaker" because they will be glad to help. I'm not going to find a native speaker (outside of a restauurant), and I'd have to keep asking them to slow down so I can hear how the language is spoken.

Speaking is the problem. There are a few references to how some letters or letter combinations are promounced. There needed to be much more than that. When it gets to the the useful phrase chapter, there are no suggested pronunciations next to any of them. I'd likely try to say them as if they were English words.

So, it's nice that it's short and free, but it needed to be a little longer (or less chatty). And it seems like the "easiest way to learn Thai" is to go there, immerse yourself, and listen to natives. However, that isn't very easy, and it definitely wouldn't be immediate.

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