How does one find a person or method to achieve that. I can only think of starting off as a first year Thai student. Laboriously copying/practising single Thai letters, simple Thai words stuck around the house. Courses I've seen seem to be more speaking than reading/writing.
Suggestions anyone?
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^ There are books around that teach writing. Look in some decent books shops. And/or you could find a course somewhere nearby.
The Thai2English dictionary available as a downlaod and a lifetime license has a good section on the basics of reading and writing. If you complete that section in your own time, you'll be able to read signs and messages no sweat.
It's a good dictionary with Thai to English and vice versa, and will do Thai to English translations of text sentencs far better than Bing, Google, or any of the online translators. Each entry of the dictionary also has sample sentences which are invaluable to get the feeling of context, grammar and synonyms that might have slightly different meanings or uses.
There's also quite a few audio clips of words to help with pronunciation, both for the Thai learner in Thai and the English learner in English.
And it's good to learn to read first/while your learning to speak because it helps a lot with tones. Not all transliteration uses the same methods to denote tones.
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I did try that a few years ago spent a good deal of time practising maybe 20 - 30 Thai characters in a book aimed at P0r1. But I will revisit the book shops.
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I will check that out.
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yes a good idea.
That's why it might be easier to learn the comprehension of the spoken language and understanding what one is hearing, firstly.
Followed by learning to read/write Thai script, where it might make more sense and picked up quicker when one has mastered a base spoken form.
Though, these mechanics won't always work for everyone -
There are those that would prefer to integrate both spoken and written form, simultaneously, as one might find an easier connection [overall] to the language.
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