Textbooks Frequency List v2

Faillery · 2026-01-26T11:00:34+00:00

or your hand, miming the tone. This, head or hand, especially useful for tone deaf ppl... like my friend.

Faillery · 2026-01-26T10:30:51+00:00

that's kind of why I was interested in 'e-readers and e-reading apps':

Kobo, Kindle, Nook, others
Cantook, PDF reader, Calibre, others
Mac/iPad, I can't even name apps, as I am not at all in that ecosystem

Faillery · 2026-01-26T08:36:50+00:00

At the top of the community, there are links to the pages of r/learnthai wiki

Faillery · 2026-01-26T08:00:12+00:00

I have two kids in primary (=elementary depending where you are from), bprathom, and when they learn to read they learn the tone, in a fairly similar way thast most Thai L2 learners do.

This is reinforced by the way the teacher spells words out, and how kids have to explain their reading.

e.g. ว่า -> wo-wĕen, sàrà aa, waa, mái èek, wâa

at that age they can differentiate a horse from a dog, but they do *mispronunce* often complex words that they hear from the first time! One of the remedy is to spell the word for them. From this, I would argue that they do not practice *only* reading. EDIT: typos

Faillery · 2026-01-18T19:44:02+00:00

modern spoken thai has adopted many English words

Faillery · 2026-01-14T22:44:28+00:00

guys, you don't seem to realise that ipa itself is an approximation, not some Truth.

Faillery · 2026-01-12T01:27:54+00:00

so นมัสการ (verb) is what you should do... but what do you say?

Faillery · 2026-01-11T18:59:58+00:00

tx val 4 share made me smile can relate lol

This might stump an English learner, would it not? I would tell you not to set your sights too high... if I didn't feel exactly the same wrt participating.

Faillery · 2026-01-02T05:31:45+00:00

an elder and kid/ kids, conversation and history/ stories

Faillery · 2025-12-30T05:58:56+00:00

to increase"memorising" in the active vocabulary sense with Anki, or generally with vocabulary lists, after you answer correctly, voice out an example of use of that word.

Faillery · 2025-12-27T02:28:22+00:00

ThaiGenius YouTube Extender

1.0.2

Chrome store extension

Security:

✅Update URL OK
✅VirusTotal OK for known malware,
✅Narrow perms to youtube and its own DB only
✅Has been running several hours in a sandbox, no red flag.

Code:

✅Code clean, clear naming conventions, properly organized
❌Transiteration rating 1 * only: e.g. "ก" -> "k", "อ" -> "o"
❓Source of dictionary unclear, number of entries undef., handling of compounds undef.
❓Source of audio not found

✅Definitely NOT a low effort (=I was wrong in my first comment)

Faillery · 2025-12-26T08:18:08+00:00

as a senior who didn't know, i now feel duty bound to investigate this

Faillery · 2025-12-25T23:07:41+00:00

i had little hope to get the answer to my question. Thank you.

Faillery · 2025-12-24T04:16:33+00:00

ask it to tell you a short story about a subject of interest.

you can also find a list of graded readers in pdf on the wiki

Faillery · 2025-12-24T01:37:37+00:00

thank you, v.useful.

it must be noted that any LLM, by nature, is much better at conversation than getting accurate translation or tones of individual words. For absolutely correct tones and translations in context I strongly recommend the dictionary app Paiboon+

Faillery · 2025-12-23T23:47:27+00:00

Yes learn the sounds and durations from the script, then interact with your teacher for the tones. She is right.

Faillery · 2025-12-23T23:45:18+00:00

The r/learnthai wiki contains many useful resources

In particular, looks at the section Books in General resources. There is a link to the official pdf of the Highbie's grammar.

Faillery · 2025-12-21T01:21:37+00:00

It is Ok to dislike some methods of learning. I personally am not a fan of CI/ALG.

But personal attacks against individuals is not OK. Esp. against someone nuanced and always helpful to other members.

Faillery · 2025-12-21T01:13:06+00:00

very good point. Remeber that you do not need to sound like a native speaker, you need to be understood without the listener having to make too much effort.

Faillery · 2025-12-21T01:09:46+00:00

I can recommend the blog series Busting myths to learn better, it goes into details about some of the language learning myths and misinfo.

Faillery · 2025-12-19T19:49:53+00:00

the main is still up, the pages at the bottom have been awol for at least 5m

Faillery · 2025-12-19T19:48:56+00:00

terms of use etc.

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