Thai: Basic Course Volume 1

This course teaches the national spoken language in the dialect of educated speakers of Bangkok and Central Thailand. When writing, the Thai use a rather complex system based on Sanskrit, but in this course a special phonetic transcription is used to help you read and write more easily. Foreign Service Institute Basic Thai Course Volume 1. 427-page text. There are 17 Cds containing 13 hours of audio also available from Cafe Lango. Recorded by native speakers with pauses for you to repeat.