When I lived in France I’d go to Spain nearly every weekend because the weather was better. And while I never did study Spanish, I could get away with a lot by adding an o to my French. I say that I got away with ‘a lot’, but I held pity for both the French and the Spanish on the receiving end of communication with me.

Thanks for the kind words. When I started researching to learn Thai, I wanted somewhere to put all my Thai language resources and a blog seemed to be the best bet. The idea expanded from there.

I love your blog, you have some excellent language learning resources here that can be applied to any language if people think a little outside of the box.
Heather Adrian AKA RedGringo

I have the Michel Thomas scripts, but I’m not sure how to go about creating my own in Thai from there as his method tends to build in a different way than Thai is structured.

Thanks for stopping by :-)

I liked this article and didn’t know of Michel Thomas but will look into this further, I am familiar with Pimsleur though.

I know a little Thai but more Japanese.

Thanks a lot!

Glad to hear they are working on a Thai version. The last I read, they had no plans for Thai (one of their representatives posted on a language forum). But it’ll still be too late for me unless it comes out real soon.

How good is your wife’s English? If you take the transcripts of the MT Method (they are online), with a bit of fiddling you can recreate it in Thai. But only for your own use as the method is patented (I’m not really sure how that works).

Btw – I’m a big fan of learning via a SRS method and I finally tried out Byki for Thai (by Transparent Language). It’s fantastic and dirt cheap.

I’ve been spending months recording lessons to put into a SRS (more recording and typing in Thai than learning I’m afraid). Byki has it all ready for you. Then you just add what else you want to learn after you go through their program.

You can even put in your Pimsleur if you like (if you can get it into text). So basically, all of the work I’ve done won’t go to waste.

Another plus, it’s on your computer, not online. So you can take it anywhere your computer can go. I’ll do a post about it later as it does much more than that.

My wife is Thai and I desperately want to learn the language. Two years ago I was told that they were working on the Michel Thomas Method for Thai.

I did a search for Michel Thomas Method Thai and your web-site came up.

Maybe someday they will make it, but until then I’ll just study Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone.