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Speak Easy Thai |
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Speak Easy Thai |
| Learn Thai vocabulary quickly using images and sounds recorded by native Thai speakers! |
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These are the front and back covers of the CD-ROM package. |
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Speak Easy Thai Several ways to learn! Better than flash cards! |
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in HTML format! |
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XP (SP3), Vista (SP2), Windows 7, 98, ME, 2000. |
The Problem with ThaiThe main problem with learning Thai is that the basis of the language is not European-based. English and the other Euro languages have Latin, Greek, Viking, etc., roots; Thai does not, so you have to memorise hundreds, if not thousands, of strange sounds. This is difficult, unless you use some sort of memory trigger. Speak Easy Thai helps solve this problem by presenting a picture and a sound file; all words are spoken by a native Thai speaker, so you hear the correct tone. There are more than 5,000 images and 5,000 sound files on the CD, and more than 39,000 words in total. Compare that to other methods of learning Thai: cassettes and audio CDs have no pictures, and are typically limited to a few hundred words. |
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In many cases, the pictures used are funny or strange in some way, to help you remember the word. For example, the word for "car tire" (or "tyre", if you're a British English speaker) has two pictures, shown at right. Both are memorable, not boring, and it is this simple trick that helps you remember the Thai word. Your brain makes an association between the sound of the Thai word (yang rot, in this case) and the picture. Seeing the Thai word without an image is a much harder way to learn. There are several ways of learning vocabulary; you can also test yourself on what you reviewed. The tests have a couple of options to make the review easier or harder. |
 yang rot = tire, tyre  Hear the word in Thai. |
10 Minutes or 2 Hours?You don't have to spend a lot of time learning, either. You can start the program, review a few words of some subject, say 10 words about the body, then test yourself on just those 10, then close the program and do something else. When you choose a subject, the program selects words randomly from the list of available words for that subject. So you probably won't get the same words if you run the program again tomorrow and choose the same subject. Or you can learn the words for just one of the 16 situations, like renting a car. Or you can practice tones with an exercise listening to 200 pairs of similar-sounding words. |
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UpdatesSpeak Easy Thai is part of the Multi-Language Dictionary project; this means there are frequent updates to the software, dictionaries, images, and sound files. These updates are free; just connect to the Internet, run Web Update (included in the package), and download the updates. |
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Feedback |
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I went to your office at Sukhumvit Soi 4, and purchased a copy
of the CD and the Thailand Fever book. I read the Thailand Fever
book in a day and have to say I learnt so much from it. Thank
you. I am using the CD now as I have done the Language School thing and found it frustrating for all the reasons you state. The CD is great and certainly works for my learning style. I have some friends arriving soon and will get them to purchase the CD too, as it is so good. Faye Donaldson, Australia |
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This is a wonderful project and well worth supporting. Let me momentarily wax effusive about your programming. When web update is running, I like to sit and watch it in action: everything being done smoothly, constant updates on what's going on. I recall a section on your old website about clean programming, and your work is an excellent advertisement for your expertise on the subject. I am thankful that your awesome talent has been turned to a subject so near and dear to my heart. Anyway, keep up the fine work. It is highly appreciated out here. Forever green, Ron Ruppel, Florida, USA |
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I have installed Speak Easy Thai from Internet and tried it.
Great program, excellent idea: picture and sound file for each
word. I would like to help. I could make German corrections,
additions and translations of dictionaries, menu, help files. Willi, Germany |
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The woman who does the Thai pronunciation is excellent. I have some of the AUA tapes and the speakers are too garbled ... John Petrocelli, New York, USA |
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It works beautifully and I am finding your Speak Easy Thai helpful. Suffice to say it is great!! I am enjoying learning Thai from your program very much. Thank you, Heather Firman, UK |
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I really like your product [Speak Easy Thai]. US$20 is definitely
not too much. I have been using it and have found it an excellent
way to improve my Thai and a fun way, and you can quote me. The thing I like about this program are the scenarios such as inside the airport and outside the airport, inside a hospital or school, renting a car, inside and outside a train station, etc. You just click on people and objects and hear the names in Thai. ... set aside at least 20 minutes each day and work with it faithfully; I guarantee you will improve your Thai. Dean Barrett, author, Bangkok, Thailand |
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Excellent software. Jan Eggum, Norway |
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I have found your program very useful. I am learning Thai with
a native speaker but it is good to use your program between lessons. Graham Black, Australia |
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Your program is great! Thomas Schmittlein, Germany |
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I'm very impressed wih the whole project. Robert Wadsworth, USA |
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Speak Easy Thai works on Windows systems, including XP (SP3), Vista (SP2), Windows 7, 98, ME, 2000.  300 MB total |
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Includes:
Other dictionaries may be downloaded later separately. |
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Last updated 23 May 2010
