If you’ve been learning the Thai alphabet, this app will take your reading ability to the next level. Practice reading Thai words and sentences in the Thai script.
For the past few weeks I have been playing around with a new app for the iPhone called Reading Thai – Words & Sentences. It comes from the same developers as Reading Thai that I reviewed earlier. The first app helps you with the Thai alphabet. What this new one does is to take you to the next level by helping you practice various sentences. What you get is 25 lessons with up to 10 sentences in each lesson. Each lesson starts with a list of relevant vocabulary (see above). If you have no idea on how to read the words then click on the “play” button to hear a native speaker. There is a pause between each word for you to repeat after your teacher. When ready, try the first sentence (see below). As you can see, you can cheat if you like by clicking on “Show romanization” to get some help with the reading. There is also a button to reveal the translation. Although it is not the most beautiful of apps, it is nicely done and should prove useful to people starting to learn how to read Thai. What I would like to see in future updates would be a random sentence button so that you could test yourself after finishing all of the lessons.
Download Reading Thai – Words & Sentences for $4.99 from iTunes >>>>
URGENT: This app appears to be free for downloading today which will probably only last 24 hours!
Great app for learning Thai. Thanks for letting us know. I have already downloaded.
I liked the first one do have just bought this one. Not sure if I followed your link or not so might not get the referral. Sorry!
I don’t make any money from links or referrals! Do people really think that I am just doing this blog to make money? I am trying to help other people by sharing the little knowledge that I have. Nothing more than that. It is a hobby blog for me.
It’s a great app and I’ve found it’s really improved my Thai reading skills- really useful for quick five minute “waiting for the Skytrain” bursts as well. Along with the two Benjawan Poomsan Becker apps, I’d say this was one of the essential ones for learning thai on the iPhone.
What I particularly like is the way it doesn’t automatically reveal both the romantised and English versions of the sentence. Seems like a small deal but it’s useful for me- sometimes I stumble over the meaning of a word but can read it and just want the English- other times I’m stuck on how to read a word but don’t want the translation given at the same time.
I liked the previous alphabet app but are there are few others that have come out since which I use more.
Several of my friends moved to Thailand. I wonder why, maybe I should do the same, try some fried grasshoppers? Anyway Thai alphabet is really nice looking and unusual. It looks more original than Chinese and Japanese writing. I’ll give it a try.