App Profile: Thai for Beginners

Gherman22

Rating: 4/5

This is by no means a replacement for the excellent Thai for Beginners book by the same author but as an additional app it reinforces the lessons. In fact there are additional sections of hundreds of very useful phrases and sentences not found in the book. Paiboon continues to update and enhance the app as it does all of its apps. Not just bug fixes but new functionality with every release. The ability to read the vocabulary then test yourself on both reading and listening is a terrific reinforcement. Having said that, I would like to see the addition of the conversations from each chapter as well as a focus on tone rules within consonant classes in the writing system chapter. One other (and very strong) request for enhancement would be the ability to choose different fonts, especially for the Thai writing system. I have learned classical font fairly well but now that I am in Thailand I can't read a bloody thing because all the signs are in modern font which is so different it could be a different language. Paiboon has given that ability in their five star plus dictionary program. That is not a criticism, it is my wish list to help other students learn right from the start. To anyone that is seriously interested in learning Thai I cannot recommend their dictionary too much! For an app it is expensive but worth every baht! There is nothing else on the market that even comes close.

Nak Riian

Rating: 4/5

Great companion to book. Helps with pronunciation immensely. Where is the audio to accompany the complex vowels in Chapter 3? It would be a welcome addition.

zack 5555

Rating: 5/5

I was convinced to purchase this expensive app because it was the only app that had a good handle on offering a simple way of testing your Thai vocabulary. After spending a few weeks with the app I was amazed at how far my Thai had come. The app is simple in design but has it where it counts. Such as, each word in the app can be herd spoked by a native thai speaker. This feature is common among many thai apps, however this app goes above and beyond the has each work read by a male and a female. This is helpful for the learner to hear the same word or sentence spoken by both men and women. This is a great app and well worth the money I payed for it. They have other apps on the market that I will invest in soon.