Author: Jay Walken
Publisher: Jay Walken
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A revision of the author's humorous, non-pc guide for foreigners wishing to communicate in basicThai ("Little Miss Fon"), which has grown by almost 50 percent since its original publication, this book comes with an ADDITIONAL feature: a partial reverse glossary (from English to Thai). To summarize, here are a few dubiously conceivable reasons to have “Little Miss Noi” on your e-reader: --As a conversation starter to make Thais smile, and also to invite help. --Because words that you look up in dictionaries and word books are often easily forgotten. But with a single silly verse such as “Little Miss Fon Sat on Her Kon”, you will learn ten words that you are unlikely to forget: because the verse makes you laugh. --Many words are explained with context and commentary. The nearly 200 words are explained with over 10000 words of commentary and background. --An economic aid, and for self-protection. When you can speak a few crucial Thai words, prices drop quite fast! You might also be able to spot or foil a scam by listening for key words. --As a learning aid: you pronounce the word as it sounds in the book, usually by using rhyming equivalents in English rather than a pronunciation key, and give it your best shot, asking a Thai person to correct you if you are wrong. This book is a SUBJECTIVE, non-authoritative guide roughly indicating WHICH of thousands of Thai words to focus on. Don't rely on it for accurate pronunciation: use the Internet or ask a Thai friend, and keep listening to spoken Thai. Meant for NON-PC, non-uptight readers with a very generous sense of humor.
Little Miss Noi: A Sanook Guide to the Thai Language (With a Reverse Glossary)
Author: Jay Walken
Publisher: Jay Walken
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A revision of the author's humorous, non-pc guide for foreigners wishing to communicate in basicThai ("Little Miss Fon"), which has grown by almost 50 percent since its original publication, this book comes with an ADDITIONAL feature: a partial reverse glossary (from English to Thai). To summarize, here are a few dubiously conceivable reasons to have “Little Miss Noi” on your e-reader: --As a conversation starter to make Thais smile, and also to invite help. --Because words that you look up in dictionaries and word books are often easily forgotten. But with a single silly verse such as “Little Miss Fon Sat on Her Kon”, you will learn ten words that you are unlikely to forget: because the verse makes you laugh. --Many words are explained with context and commentary. The nearly 200 words are explained with over 10000 words of commentary and background. --An economic aid, and for self-protection. When you can speak a few crucial Thai words, prices drop quite fast! You might also be able to spot or foil a scam by listening for key words. --As a learning aid: you pronounce the word as it sounds in the book, usually by using rhyming equivalents in English rather than a pronunciation key, and give it your best shot, asking a Thai person to correct you if you are wrong. This book is a SUBJECTIVE, non-authoritative guide roughly indicating WHICH of thousands of Thai words to focus on. Don't rely on it for accurate pronunciation: use the Internet or ask a Thai friend, and keep listening to spoken Thai. Meant for NON-PC, non-uptight readers with a very generous sense of humor.
Publisher: Jay Walken
ISBN:
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A revision of the author's humorous, non-pc guide for foreigners wishing to communicate in basicThai ("Little Miss Fon"), which has grown by almost 50 percent since its original publication, this book comes with an ADDITIONAL feature: a partial reverse glossary (from English to Thai). To summarize, here are a few dubiously conceivable reasons to have “Little Miss Noi” on your e-reader: --As a conversation starter to make Thais smile, and also to invite help. --Because words that you look up in dictionaries and word books are often easily forgotten. But with a single silly verse such as “Little Miss Fon Sat on Her Kon”, you will learn ten words that you are unlikely to forget: because the verse makes you laugh. --Many words are explained with context and commentary. The nearly 200 words are explained with over 10000 words of commentary and background. --An economic aid, and for self-protection. When you can speak a few crucial Thai words, prices drop quite fast! You might also be able to spot or foil a scam by listening for key words. --As a learning aid: you pronounce the word as it sounds in the book, usually by using rhyming equivalents in English rather than a pronunciation key, and give it your best shot, asking a Thai person to correct you if you are wrong. This book is a SUBJECTIVE, non-authoritative guide roughly indicating WHICH of thousands of Thai words to focus on. Don't rely on it for accurate pronunciation: use the Internet or ask a Thai friend, and keep listening to spoken Thai. Meant for NON-PC, non-uptight readers with a very generous sense of humor.
Easy Thai
Author: Jintana Rattanakhemakorn
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462915264
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Learn the basics of Thai quickly and easily! Easy Thai is exciting and helpful for beginning Thai Language students and anyone who needs a functional day-to-day grasp of colloquial Thai. An excellent resource to learn Thai, its twelve chapters cover practical and useful conversation topics such as introductions, telling the time, directions, ordering food and shopping. Each chapter opens with a dialogue that introduces the new language in context and contains: Vocabulary lists Grammar notes Sentence patterns Exercises Notes on culture and etiquette. All dialogues, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns are rendered in Thai script, romanized Thai, and English. In the comprehensive, concise introduction to Easy Thai, you will understand how to pronounce, read and write the Thai language. A bilingual dictionary at the end of the book gives translations for approximately 1,000 common words in both Thai and English. Downloadable audio provides sample conversations by native Thai speakers, helping you to practice authentic pronunciation. Easy Thai contains everything you as a beginning language learner need to know about the basics of Thai, making you a more effective communicator from the very first lesson without having to resort to long, dull, expensive courses of study!
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
ISBN: 1462915264
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Learn the basics of Thai quickly and easily! Easy Thai is exciting and helpful for beginning Thai Language students and anyone who needs a functional day-to-day grasp of colloquial Thai. An excellent resource to learn Thai, its twelve chapters cover practical and useful conversation topics such as introductions, telling the time, directions, ordering food and shopping. Each chapter opens with a dialogue that introduces the new language in context and contains: Vocabulary lists Grammar notes Sentence patterns Exercises Notes on culture and etiquette. All dialogues, vocabulary lists, and sentence patterns are rendered in Thai script, romanized Thai, and English. In the comprehensive, concise introduction to Easy Thai, you will understand how to pronounce, read and write the Thai language. A bilingual dictionary at the end of the book gives translations for approximately 1,000 common words in both Thai and English. Downloadable audio provides sample conversations by native Thai speakers, helping you to practice authentic pronunciation. Easy Thai contains everything you as a beginning language learner need to know about the basics of Thai, making you a more effective communicator from the very first lesson without having to resort to long, dull, expensive courses of study!
Erotic Adventure in Thailand
Author: Jay Walken
Publisher: Jay Walken Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
In this passionate story of erotic love, an American man runs into a young Thai woman who teaches him that love between a man and woman from totally different cultures is possible so long as one of them knows twelve words of the other's language. Funny, erotic, atmospheric humor--a one of a kind story. Erotic realism in the tradition of Henry Miller, with rich sexual and cultural detail. Erotic Romance, Interracial Sex, Heterosexual male erotica, humorous erotica, humorous erotic story, humorous fiction, literary erotica, Thailand, Divorced men visiting Thailand, massages, intercultural relations and romance, Thai language, Thai women, Asian women.
Publisher: Jay Walken Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
In this passionate story of erotic love, an American man runs into a young Thai woman who teaches him that love between a man and woman from totally different cultures is possible so long as one of them knows twelve words of the other's language. Funny, erotic, atmospheric humor--a one of a kind story. Erotic realism in the tradition of Henry Miller, with rich sexual and cultural detail. Erotic Romance, Interracial Sex, Heterosexual male erotica, humorous erotica, humorous erotic story, humorous fiction, literary erotica, Thailand, Divorced men visiting Thailand, massages, intercultural relations and romance, Thai language, Thai women, Asian women.
A Maranao dictionary
Author: Howard McKaughan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maranao language
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maranao language
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Basic Chinese
Author: Yip Po-Ching
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134028806
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Basic Chinese introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include: a clear, accessible format many useful language examples jargon-free explanations of grammar ample drills and exercises a full key to exercises. All Chinese entries are presented in both Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition as well as classroom teaching in both spoken and written Chinese. Basic Chinese is designed for students new to the language. Together with its sister volume, Intermediate Chinese, it forms a compendium of the essentials of Chinese syntax.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134028806
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Basic Chinese introduces the essentials of Chinese syntax. Each of the 25 units deals with a particular grammatical point and provides associated exercises. Features include: a clear, accessible format many useful language examples jargon-free explanations of grammar ample drills and exercises a full key to exercises. All Chinese entries are presented in both Pinyin romanization and Chinese characters, and are accompanied, in most cases, by English translations to facilitate self-tuition as well as classroom teaching in both spoken and written Chinese. Basic Chinese is designed for students new to the language. Together with its sister volume, Intermediate Chinese, it forms a compendium of the essentials of Chinese syntax.
Thai for Intermediate Learners
Author: Benjawan Poomsan Becker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thai language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Thai for Intermedate Learners offers a natural continuation of Thai For Beginners. The two books provide a basic foundation in reading, writing, and speaking in the Thai language. Thai for Intermediate Learners teaches vocabulary, sentence structure and conversation while keeping the student interested with cultural facts such as Thai holidays, the provinces of Thailand, Thai food and common Thai names. Students using Thai for Intermediate Learners are expected to possess basic reading and writing skills and a vocabulary of about 400 commonly used words"--The introduction to the accompanying book
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Thai language
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
"Thai for Intermedate Learners offers a natural continuation of Thai For Beginners. The two books provide a basic foundation in reading, writing, and speaking in the Thai language. Thai for Intermediate Learners teaches vocabulary, sentence structure and conversation while keeping the student interested with cultural facts such as Thai holidays, the provinces of Thailand, Thai food and common Thai names. Students using Thai for Intermediate Learners are expected to possess basic reading and writing skills and a vocabulary of about 400 commonly used words"--The introduction to the accompanying book
Thai for Beginners
Author: Paiboon Publishing
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887521413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Best Thai language software available on the market! Designed especially for non-romanized written Thai to help you to rapidly improve your listening and reading skills! Over 3,000 recordings of both male and female voices. The content is similar to the book Thai for Beginners, but with interactive exercises and much more instantly useful words and phrases. Multiple easy-to-read font styles and sizes. Super-crisp enhanced text with romanized transliteration which can be turned on or off for all items.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887521413
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Best Thai language software available on the market! Designed especially for non-romanized written Thai to help you to rapidly improve your listening and reading skills! Over 3,000 recordings of both male and female voices. The content is similar to the book Thai for Beginners, but with interactive exercises and much more instantly useful words and phrases. Multiple easy-to-read font styles and sizes. Super-crisp enhanced text with romanized transliteration which can be turned on or off for all items.
An Invention without a Future
Author: James Naremore
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957946
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raúl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520957946
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
In 1895, Louis Lumière supposedly said that cinema is "an invention without a future." James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raúl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Womanwriting=Manreading?
Author: J Devika
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181847
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
‘[Devika] brings to the reader the delight of reading a book rich in concepts and sources’ Contributions to Indian Sociology The Malayalam literary public is one of the most vibrant in India, and thrives on the long history of widespread literacy in the state of Kerala. It is well described as the ‘beating heart’ of Kerala’s publiclife. Historically, it has been the space in which entrenched power structures encountered their earliest challenges. Not surprisingly, then, critiques of patriarchy in twentieth-century Kerala were first heard and continued to be raised there, even when they had become muffled in wider public discussion. Womanwriting = Manreading? is a provocative take on some of the raging debates in Malayalam literature, which surely resonate elsewhere. But it also raises the important question: can we tell the story of women’s anti-patriarchal writing in Malayalam in a way that highlights the force and drama of their confrontations with the male-dominated literary establishment?
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351181847
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 185
Book Description
‘[Devika] brings to the reader the delight of reading a book rich in concepts and sources’ Contributions to Indian Sociology The Malayalam literary public is one of the most vibrant in India, and thrives on the long history of widespread literacy in the state of Kerala. It is well described as the ‘beating heart’ of Kerala’s publiclife. Historically, it has been the space in which entrenched power structures encountered their earliest challenges. Not surprisingly, then, critiques of patriarchy in twentieth-century Kerala were first heard and continued to be raised there, even when they had become muffled in wider public discussion. Womanwriting = Manreading? is a provocative take on some of the raging debates in Malayalam literature, which surely resonate elsewhere. But it also raises the important question: can we tell the story of women’s anti-patriarchal writing in Malayalam in a way that highlights the force and drama of their confrontations with the male-dominated literary establishment?
Das Martyrium Des Heiligen Magnus
Author: Peter Maxwell Davies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description