Thai books on reading and writing?

[acoustic25]

its been a long time ive posted on here. hope everyone is good. i have 2 questions

im looking for a thai book which is based on reading and writing thai. ive got a few books but they have romanisations in them which ive been told is not the way to learning thai language as its tonal. Is there any book which hasnt got them in?

what are the best thai books on reading and wrinting. I would like to here people views

thank you

jay

[ian71]

ill give you 2 very good ones i use, Thai for Beginners by benjawan becker includes 2 cds around 800bht and short cut for speaking thai published by mis softtech company ltd this has 3 cds only 199bht, cheers and good luck

[acoustic25]

thank you very much i will be checking these books out

[billk]

I mostly learned to read and write Thai with the Manee and Friends books.

[djastro86]

Thanks for the manee and friends reference

[leosmith]

ive got a few books but they have romanisations in them which ive been told is not the way to learning thai language as its tonal. Is there any book which hasnt got them in?

ill give you 2 very good ones i use, Thai for Beginners by benjawan becker includes 2 cds around 800bht and short cut for speaking thai published by mis softtech company ltd this has 3 cds only 199bht, cheers and good luck

Both of these have romanization. I think what the OP wants is a workbook that teaches the alphabet and beginning reading. I have seen such books in Thailand, but I don't remember a name and I don't have a link.
[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Everyday-Beginners-Wiworn-Ph-D-Kesavatana-Dohrs/dp/9749575970/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1282698847&sr=8-3"]Everyday Thai for Beginners[/ame] is an excellent textbook without romanization, but one really needs to master the script before using it.

[ian71]

Both of these have romanization. I think what the OP wants is a workbook that teaches the alphabet and beginning reading. I have seen such books in Thailand, but I don't remember a name and I don't have a link.
Everyday Thai for Beginners is an excellent textbook without romanization, but one really needs to master the script before using it.

ill be honest with you, i dont believe any Westerner will be able to read thai without first having the aid of having thai script along with english romanization and if you've not looked at any of the above books they have thai script with roman english translation below so a helpful cheat if you need to look and you will, learning to read thai is great but there is no way your brain can remember 44 new strange letters let alone the vowels with out a reference to something you already know that can link your memory to.This is why many farang never learn to read thai, it can be just a little to much, alphabet cards are my best learning tool to date and around 200bht!!!!! bargain,,,also to correct things both the above books teach to read and learn the alphabet in both thai and english script