Thai Language and Culture for Beginners, vol. 1 (auxiliary materials)
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2007
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Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong; distributed by University of Hawaii Press
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Thai Language and Culture for Beginners provides a basic foundation for conversational Standard Thai for beginning learners. It focuses on developing the learners' listening and speaking skills. Designed primarily for use in a Thai as a Foreign Language class in U.S. universities, this course book uses a proficiency-based approach to learning Thai and covers the daily real life topics and situations that a student might encounter. Each volume set consists of:
• Coursebook
• Companion Audio/Video CD (in mp3 and mpeg formats)
• Companion Dialog Video clips DVD (NTSC format)
The Thai Language and Culture for Beginners coursebook set (Book 1 and Book 2) consists of 31 lessons (20 lessons in Book 1 and 11 lessons in Book 2) and appendix sections providing samples of songs and poems of Thailand, as well as an index to structural patterns introduced in the text and a vocabulary index in both Thai to English and English to Thai order, providing both IPA transcription and Thai script. The accompanying audio-CD provides the reading of the terms and expressions introduced in each lesson. The video-DVD provides video-clips of the enactment of the contextualized dialogs as audio-visual samples of language usage. .
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Thai Language and Culture for Beginners provides a basic foundation for conversational Standard Thai for beginning learners. It focuses on developing the learners' listening and speaking skills. Designed primarily for use in a Thai as a Foreign Language class in U.S. universities, this course book uses a proficiency-based approach to learning Thai and covers the daily real life topics and situations that a student might encounter. Each volume set consists of:
• Coursebook
• Companion Audio/Video CD (in mp3 and mpeg formats)
• Companion Dialog Video clips DVD (NTSC format)
The Thai Language and Culture for Beginners coursebook set (Book 1 and Book 2) consists of 31 lessons (20 lessons in Book 1 and 11 lessons in Book 2) and appendix sections providing samples of songs and poems of Thailand, as well as an index to structural patterns introduced in the text and a vocabulary index in both Thai to English and English to Thai order, providing both IPA transcription and Thai script. The accompanying audio-CD provides the reading of the terms and expressions introduced in each lesson. The video-DVD provides video-clips of the enactment of the contextualized dialogs as audio-visual samples of language usage.
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language learning, Thai language, Thai culture
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Hoonchamlong, Y. (2007). Thai language and culture for beginners, volume 1. [text + DVD] Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
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