Pimsleur Conversational Thai 8 Audio CDs
Brand New : . 8 CDs
This Basic program contains 8 hours of audio-only,
effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.
The Pimsleur Method provides the most effective
language-learning program ever developed. The Pimsleur Method gives you quick
command of Thai structure without tedious drills. Learning to speak Thai can
actually be enjoyable and rewarding.
The pimsleur language education structure is a language studing means designed by Pimsleur. The technique is depending on a few central ideas : anticipation, graduated period recollection, underlying vocabulary, plus organic education. The Pimsleur process is an audiobook usage, in which the listener constructs phrases or repeats from memory along with a recording. Foreign language programs usually involve a student to say again following an teacher, which Pimsleur argued was a slow means of learning. Dr pimsleur designed a "problem and reaction" procedure, where a learner was prompted to interpret a turn of phrase into the objective language, which was then set. This practice makes a more active way of remembering, requiring the student to think before replying. Dr pimsleur thought the theory of anticipation reflected real-life conversations in that a speaker ought to bring to mind a saying quickly.
Graduated interval recall is a method of reviewing acquired vocabulary at growing longer intervals. It is a rendering of retention via spaced repetition. For example, if a student learns the word deux French for two, then deux is experienced every few seconds in the introduction, then every few minutes, then each few hours, and then every few days. The objective of this spaced memory is to be of assistance the student budge vocabulary into long-term recall. The program uses an audio format because Dr paul pimsleur argued that the bulk of college students sought first and foremost to be taught to converse and comprehend. This audio skill, learnt by means of their ears and mouths, is a incredibly different competence to the visual one of reading and writing. Pimsleur argued that these two independent skills - audition and vision - should not be confused. He referred to his auditory system as "organic learning," which entails studying grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation simultaneously.
Conversational Thai includes the 10 lessons from Pimsleur's Basic Thai plus an additional 6 lessons.
The 16 lessons in Conversational Thai are the same first 16 lessons in the Pimsleur Comprehensive Thai Level 1.
About the Thai Language
Thai is the national and official language of Thailand and the mother tongue of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group. Thai is a member of the Tai group of the Tai-Kadai language family. It is a tonal and analytic language. The Tai-Kadai languages are thought to have originated in what is now southern China, and some linguists have proposed links to the Austroasiatic, Austronesian, or Sino-Tibetan language families. The combination of tonality, a complex orthography, relational markers and a distinctive phonology can make Thai difficult to learn for those who do not already speak a related language.
Standard Thai, also known as Central Thai or Siamese, is the official language of Thailand, spoken by about 65 million people including speakers of Bangkok Thai . Khorat Thai is spoken by about 400,000 (1984) in Nakhon Ratchasima; it occupies a linguistic position somewhere between Central Thai and Isan on a dialect continuum, and may be considered a variant or dialect of either.
Standard Thai is composed of several distinct registers, forms for different social contexts:
* Street Thai : informal, without polite terms of address, as used between close relatives and friends.
* Elegant Thai : official and written version, includes respectful terms of address; used in simplified form in newspapers.
* Rhetorical Thai: used for public speaking.
* Religious Thai: (heavily influenced by Sanskrit and Pāli) used when discussing Buddhism or addressing monks.
* Royal Thai : (influenced by Khmer) used when addressing members of the royal family or describing their activities.
Many Thais can speak at only the first and second levels, though they will understand the others.
In addition to Standard Thai, Thailand is home to other related Tai languages, including:
* Isan (Northeastern Thai), the language of the Isan region of Thailand, considered by some to be a dialect of the Lao language, which it very closely resembles (although it is written in the Thai alphabet). It is spoken by about 15 million people (1983).
* Nyaw language, spoken mostly in Nakhon Phanom Province, Sakhon Nakhon Province, Udon Thani Province of Northeast Thailand.
* Galung language, spoken in Nakhon Phanom Province of Northeast Thailand.
* Lü (Tai Lue, Dai), spoken by about 78,000 (1993) in northern Thailand.
* Northern Thai (Lanna, Kam Meuang, or Thai Yuan), spoken by about 6 million (1983) in the formerly independent kingdom of Lanna (Chiang Mai).
* Phuan, spoken by an unknown number of people in central Thailand and Isan.
* Phu Thai, spoken by about 156,000 around Nakhon Phanom Province (1993).
* Shan (Thai Luang, Tai Long, Thai Yai), spoken by about 56,000 in north-west Thailand along the border with the Shan States of Burma (1993).
* Song, spoken by about 20,000 to 30,000 in central and northern Thailand (1982).
* Southern Thai (Pak Dtai), spoken about 5 million (1990).
* Thai Dam, spoken by about 20,000 (1991) in Isan and Saraburi Province.
Numerous languages not related to Thai are spoken within Thailand by ethnic minority hill tribespeople. These languages include Hmong-Mien (Yao), Karen, Lisu, and others. Many of these languages are spoken by larger numbers outside of Thailand. Most speakers of dialects and minority languages speak Central Thai as well, since it is the language used in schools and universities all across the kingdom.
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