| Interesting that technical books written in Thai have important words set in English inside brackets, next to the Thai equivalent.
The reason for this is that the Thai language invariably does not have an appropriate word of its own - the de facto standard is English - the Thai lecturer often has to synthesise a Thai equivalent that will hopefully convey some kind of primitive constructive meaning to the locals.
So, the easiest way to read a Thai technical book is to skim read through the bracketed English key words, look at the pictures & equations. This is how I studied at CU when the main text book was in Thai.
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