Comments on: Thai Virtual Keyboard from Google

By: Catherine Wentworth

Catherine Wentworth — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:19:00 +0000

Ben – ‘I have spilt beer / coke / green curry all over the damn thing, it refuses to die’ lol! You have one tough keyboard! I dumped Singha over my powerbook keyboard years back and it killed it dead. I was in Thailand on a holiday but had a deadline to get some material in. I missed the deadline flat.

expatudon – Lao, Thai and English? What a lucky boy! I envy him. Little kids are wonderful on computers. I was hired to teach a 3 year old Thai-English girl the computer when I lived on Borneo. She was brilliant. I stacked pillows high and put her in front of the keys, and away she went.

By: expatudon08

expatudon08 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:50:07 +0000

my 4 year old son as started to talk issan lao and Thai as good as is English so i have given him my old laptop to use with Thai and English keys
its great to see him flourish

By: Ben Shingleton

Ben Shingleton — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:25:14 +0000

LOL they do indeed, I don’t need a new lappy, I just need a new keyboard!

Actually I do need a new lappy as I have spilt beer / coke / green curry all over the damn thing, it refuses to die!

Will keep you posted on the Thai alphabet, that prog is very good at helping you remember stuff, I just need a day free to concentrate on it. Hard to come by. All the best. Ben

By: cat

cat — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:40:35 +0000

Hi Ben! I was wondering how you were getting along with the alphabet book. I pulled it out again just this week to see how I would view it. And except for the butt ugly graphics, I’m equally pleased with how the graphics jog the memory.

Keyboard stickers, oh dear. I imagine they also collect oil from your finger tips? I wonder what they’d be like with a Singha tipped over too?

(Please excuse the past Thailand memories… :-)

By: Ben Shingleton

Ben Shingleton — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:09:04 +0000

Hi Catherine, great resource again! I actually have lots of grey stickers stuck to my keyboard, which is great for Thai people using my PC, but generally a pain as they peel off and catch all manner of biscuit crumbs / ants etc. BTW I’ve made a little progress with the Thai book, but still very early days! :)

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