Thailand introductory textbook recommendation

I recommend some introductory Thai textbooks to you and show their advantages and disadvantages for your reference. I hope I can help you!

There are three sets of comprehensive teaching materials commonly used in the market:

1. Thailand course (edited by Pan) 20 12 revised edition with MP3.

Analysis: This textbook is the designated textbook for Thai majors in many universities. A full set of four volumes, the first volume is the introduction chapter, a total of 22 lessons. The first 12 lesson focuses on pronunciation, and the last 10 lesson is a short article. The first twelve phonetic lessons are divided into two parts: spelling rules of letters and learning to speak. The content of letter spelling rules is studied through the collocation of meta-consonants. Besides learning 30 vowels and 42 consonants, I also explained the spelling rules of Thai. However, there are few spelling exercises in each class, and the explanation is too general for beginners, which requires self-learners' strong understanding ability. The dialogue part is difficult for beginners to understand without guidance. The last ten essays are studied according to the pattern of grammar-text-practice-vocabulary. The grammar explanation is exquisite, with a lot of oral and written grammar exercises, but there is no reference answer.

Advantages: authoritative, rigorous and delicate grammar explanation, and more grammar practice.

Disadvantages: less pronunciation practice, large content span, large vocabulary, lack of reference answers, and it is difficult to continue without the guidance of teachers.

Tip: If you want to buy it, please pay attention to the revision of 20 12, and give an MP3 CD, which was not available in the previous version.

2. Practical Thai course (edited by Huang Lin Xiumei) with MP3.

Analysis: Quan Yi's complete book, with 34 lessons, the first 1 1 hour of pronunciation learning, and the second half of daily conversation learning. The phonetic part is more eye-catching, concise and intuitive in the form of table summary, which is convenient for learners to check and avoids the trouble of summary. The distribution of phonetic knowledge points is similar to that of Thai courses. The last 34 lessons are a lot of dialogue exercises closely related to life, food, clothing, housing and transportation. They are very practical, but without the teacher's explanation, it is difficult for beginners to understand.

Advantages: the phonetic arrangement is concise and lively, and the tabular form is easy to summarize. Lots of daily conversations are suitable for students who want to communicate quickly.

Disadvantages: less pronunciation practice and extensive explanation. Dialogue exercises lack knowledge points to explain, so students can easily know but don't know why.

3. Basic Thai (edited by Liao Yufu) with MP3.

Analysis: This book consists of four volumes. The first volume is phonetics teaching. Nowadays, many first-year students majoring in Thai use this book as a textbook for pronunciation classes. The first book contains sixteen lessons, and the first fourteen lessons are all about phonetic learning. It can be seen that compared with the first two sets of comprehensive textbooks, the first volume of Basic Thai focuses on phonetic learning. The typesetting of the whole text is bright, and this textbook was opened by 16, and the typesetting is very atmospheric, which avoids the dense feeling of typesetting. The related spelling exercises also use tabular method, which is clear and clear. However, the textbook lacks the practice of short dialogue, and simply speaking pronunciation will inevitably make beginners feel boring. Plus the lazy pronunciation of MP3, it really is.

Advantages: bright layout and rich pronunciation practice.

Disadvantages: lack of short dialogue, easy to get bored.

If you want to be a professional language learner, it is very appropriate to have a Thai pronunciation textbook.

Thai Phonetics (edited by Fang Yingyang) with MP3.

Analysis: The whole book is written from the perspective of phonetics, which is very professional. A lot of professional knowledge, examples, history and spelling exercises make you feel the height of Thai pronunciation in all directions.

Advantages: professional, comprehensive, detailed and practice more.

Disadvantages: obscure and boring.

Choosing textbooks is not a once-and-for-all thing. Every editor will focus on his own teaching materials. Thai fans must change their teaching materials at any time according to their own abilities and needs. Beginners should also choose textbooks according to their own conditions, and should go through those textbooks themselves. So what are your criteria for considering a textbook?

1. Do I understand? If you read a few lines and then get confused, then put down this textbook, it is not suitable for you.

2. Does the textbook have MP3? Listening is a very important link when beginners come into contact with a strange language. Without MP3 textbooks, it's like giving you a door without a key.

3. Pay attention to all kinds of notes in the textbook. If a book just throws an article in front of you and gives you a list of new words without any comments, put it down. You can't attack without a teacher

Get started in a hurry. Do you know how to really get started?

Answer this question first: Have I mastered every sound of Thai? Give me a word. Can I pronounce it smoothly? Can I write all Thai letters fluently? Can I say some simple sentences? Can I write some simple words from memory? If you do all this, congratulations on your smooth entry. Next, you can put down your pronunciation textbook and start learning elementary grammar and texts!

In addition to a textbook that suits you, a good dictionary will make you even more powerful. Beginners can buy a Chinese-Thai-Chinese electronic dictionary, but electronic dictionaries can only meet the needs of novices. If you want to be more professional, you need a paper dictionary.

The Thai-Chinese Dictionary of Guangzhou Foreign Studies University and the Chinese-Thai Dictionary of Yang Hanchuan are commonly used and inexpensive. But be careful not to rely too much on Yang Hanchuan's Hantai Dictionary. Although this dictionary is very powerful, the translation of some words is not completely accurate because the use of a word is limited by the context.

So much for my introduction. Please pay attention to more information!