Sprachkurs Plus (Anfänger): Thailändisch

by David Smyth

Sprachkurs Plus
Thailändisch
Für Anfänger ohne Vorkenntnisse

* Lernen Sie entspannt zu Hause oder auf Reisen
* authentisches, aktuelles Material
* überschaubare Lernportionen

In diesem ausführlichen Kursbuch finden Sie

* interessante Tipps zu Land und Leuten
* Erklärungen zu Grammatik und Wortschatz
* abwechslungsreiche Übungen
* die abgedruckten Dialoge der Audio-CDs

Genres: Language, Nonfiction

312 pages, Paperback

First published June 11, 1996

Reviews

[Alien Bookreader · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a course for total beginners but is not actually structured well for total beginners. It's structured in a way that you could get practice if you already know some Thai.

My biggest issue is that it teaches you to memorize phrases without actually knowing what the individual words in the phrase mean.

For instance it has sections like this:

"To get a waiter's attention"
(Phrase in Thai)

"To ask for a glass of water"
(Phrase in Thai)

Basically you will end up memorizing phrases and knowing the purpose of the phrases without actually understanding what the words mean. That is ... very bad for language learning. It will slow you down. Language learning shouldn't be rote memorization. You'll end up memorizing a bunch of speech sounds but not actually speak the language.

Also for pragmatic reasons - do you really want to say a random phrase to "get the attention" of the waiter without knowing what you're saying to him? Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.

There are sections where individual words are translated, but strangely phrases and sentences are never translated word for word.

After studying 7+ languages in my life, I couldn't think of a worse strategy for learning a language. You'll have gaps in your knowledge and your learning process will be slowed down and disjointed (especially for learning the common syntactic structures in everyday speech).

This book could be useful as a supplement if you're learning basic Thai through other methods, but on it's own it's not a good learning method.

[André · Rating 4 out of 5]

For anyone who wants to learn Thai, this sure is a good start. The lessons start easy and actually don't get much more difficult, but you learn more words and more grammar as you get along. The book was a bit too simple for me, as I was already a beginner when I started reading it, but I still learned quite much. I hope there is a sequel or something... By the way, it comes with a CD, but I haven't listened to that one yet, hehe.

[Gaystructive Criticism · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book isn’t just completely useless due to the ridiculously bespoke transliteration. It will hinder you’ll progress once you’ll transition into better standardised works.

Avoid completely.