I just started a YMCA basic Thai conversation course which textbook utilizes a phonetic transcription alphabet. The problem is that for each phoneme, the examples given are a Thai word (+definition): e.g. /k/ kin = to eat. Of course the teacher pronounces 'kin' but the pronunciation is easy to forget with 40 odd vowels, consonants, mixed consonants and dipthongs to remember. And there's no way to go back to my book to remind myself of an English word that has the same kind of sound as the Thai vowel or consonant. I wonder if there's an IPA chart that lists the Thai vowels and consonants and examples of words in English that approximate that sound. Note: my textbook is using the IPA transcription, not Romanization. I especially would appreciate a Web site that lets u clik on the vowel (the IPA transcription, not Thai script or Romanized) and hear its sound.