Thai language

[Kurtz]

Topic. Any one know any good resources for Thai language? Specifically speaking?

I've been using the Pimsleur courses but am almost done and would like to use other quality listening/speaking tools.

I can sort of read but the font is always waay too small and the keyboard doesn't fit with English phonetic lettering. So reading and writing are not a priority.

[Rockheart]

Topic. Any one know any good resources for Thai language? Specifically speaking?

I've been using the Pimsleur courses but am almost done and would like to use other quality listening/speaking tools.

I can sort of read but the font is always waay too small and the keyboard doesn't fit with English phonetic lettering. So reading and writing are not a priority.

If you have girlfriends that translate or speak for you all the time, you will never learn good Thai. I think that is the reason my Thai sucks.
We always talked about them teaching me Thai but it never really happened.
I've found I now know the basics after many years & I know most of the food. I did things like every morning I would go to the fruit stand and try and order fruit in Thai. After a couple weeks I knew all the fruit and could say sentences including fruit. I also like to go to other businesses but prepare by memorizing a few sentences I look up online. Then I try to do business or order stuff in Thai. Sometimes I think it doesn't really matter because everyone in Thailand speaks some English unless they are old or sheltered or never went to school.

[Kurtz]

Definitely. I have had little trouble with English in Thailand besides the odd pronunciation at times. I just figure I go there often enough to at least know some of the conversational Thai.

i have had similar issues with gfs and dtf lbs saying they'd teach me but it going nowhere. Maybe i should find an Issan girl with no English and try again lol.

[Escierto]

Definitely. I have had little trouble with English in Thailand besides the odd pronunciation at times. I just figure I go there often enough to at least know some of the conversational Thai.

i have had similar issues with gfs and dtf lbs saying they'd teach me but it going nowhere. Maybe i should find an Issan girl with no English and try again lol.

I had a Colombian wife who spoke no English and my Spanish quickly improved to the point that I could talk to anyone and say anything. I never lost my gringo accent but that wasn't a bad thing. I had plenty of women tell me that they thought my accent was cute and sexy.

[Rockheart]

In South America the english speakers are harder to find than Thailand. When I was in Brazil, it was nothing like Thailand and I picked up Portugese much faster as I had to. I started dating Fernanda there but she was pretty good at trying to teach me some of the language. We went to Mexico and it is similar to Thailand for understanding of English but I really worked out my Spanish spending 6 months there during covid. I think the Portugese made me understand the Spanish better as they are very similar to a point. Plus Portugese has many similarities to French also which I have studied alot.

Since they are latin languages it is easy to write because you already know the characters.
With Thai I barely recognize any characters or what they mean. The only thing I can read for sure is the Kilometer symbols from road signs. กม. (KM.)

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[Kurtz]

That's true. The grammar and syntax in Spanish is 90% the same as English. I am part Salvadorean so I have been speaking Spanish for as long as I can remember.

i would say Portuguese is similar enough to Spanish that you could learn the other without much trouble or effort. When visiting the tri-border of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay (Iguazu Falls), many people there speak portuñol which is as fun speaking as it is listening to. From what I have gathered Thai and Lao are quite similar in this regard of mutual intelligibilty.

I find Brazilian Portuguese to be a beautiful language and the women and trans there more varied. Brazil reminds me of a hard-boiled Thailand in some ways. Way better coffee and the excellent cachaça which i have developed an appreciation for