Updated 03-Aug-2025 Price includes international shipping. For shipping in Thailand, order from our Lazada storefront. So many Thai fonts used in Thailand don't look like the standard Thai font that we used. There is an enormous diversity in Thai fonts (typefaces) found in Thailand, and used everywhere, from Thai movie posters, to Thai advertisements, to ... Read more
Updated 04-Aug-2025
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There are both substantive and subtle changes to the Thai Alphabet Cards. For the Thai Consonants, we add the ten numbers (0-9) as ten additional cards, and then on the consonant cards themselves, the significant changes are:
Updated 03-Aug-2025
This article is about Thai keyboard layouts for desktop and laptop computers, which have a hardware and software component. This does not deal with virtual or soft keyboards or mobile device layouts.
Thai Keyboard Layouts are generally something Thai speakers and Thai language learners have little problem with because of a de facto standard, although there are three specific standards, in practice (along with ISO and ANSI layouts).
Updated 04-Aug-2025 Our products are available at a variety of distributors: Thailand - Physical Bookstores Asia Books & Bookazine bookstores - throughout Thailand, including airports B2S bookstores - throughout Thailand Bookzone - Chiang Mai Kinokuniya bookstores - Three Bangkok locations Suriwong (now Asia Books) - Chiang Mai Online - Lazada Lanna Innovation on Lazada Online ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025
The second edition of the Thai Alphabet Cards is underway, and we've revamped the Tone Graphs, among other elements.
Updated 03-Aug-2025
One challenge for using Thai script on a computer is that Thai characters are more vertical than roman alphabet characters. If one is mixing roman and Thai characters in a document, the Thai characters tend to be much smaller (and therefore illegible if the roman characters are optimized for space and legibility). The reason for this is that Thai characters, along with vowel markers, tone marks, and the silent marker can stack above and below a character, which means they are generally much taller than Roman (Latin) and other alphabet systems.
Updated 03-Aug-2025 INCOMPLETE - WORK IN PROGRESS It is common for those learning Thai to run across transcription of spoken Thai into systems other than the Thai script. At first, one would think that there would be a single correct transcription, for example based on the International Phonetical Association (IPA) that would accurately capture all ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025
While Speech Perception Research is a large and dynamic area of study, some recent findings can be summarized in a way that helps us better approach second language learning and teaching.
Updated 03-Aug-2025
Thai languages, or languages in Thailand, are many and diverse. Scholars generally use the term Tai to refer to a larger language family which ranges across much of Mainland Southeast Asia and what is now Southern China. The main point is that there is ongoing research, different ideas, and not full agreement, on how to distinguish which languages are related to each other and which are siblings and which are parent languages.
Updated 03-Aug-2025
Comparing and contrasting the similarities and differences between two languages is an effective tactic for second language learners. Direct cognitive awareness of those differences, while engaging in recognition and production of the differences, is more effective than indirect trial and error. Instruction and exercises that highlight these differences are important for mastery.
Updated 03-Aug-2025 Recent changes to the Thai Font Collection Thai Font Collection last updated on 2020-03-18 Added Cadson Demak Sarabun font family (different from TH Sarabun New under DIP SIPA). Adding 16 typefaces for the font family. Refreshed NECTEC-TLWG fonts, expanding them to match what is available in the 2020-01-04 Debian distribution. Total of 58 ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025
Updated 03-Aug-2025 The Thai Royal Anthem or Phleng Sansoen Phra Barami (เพลงสรรเสริญพระบารมี) is played regularly before each film shown in movie theaters and also on television at various times during the broadcast, sometimes ending each broadcast day. New Version of Video of Thai Royal Anthem httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djwY41a4lsA Old Version of Video of Thai Royal Anthem httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcRxaVHUnaQ ... Read more
Updated 03-Aug-2025
There are a variety of Thai language touch typing programs, as well as virtual keyboards to support Thai. Discussed below are programs in learning to touch type the Thai keyboard. This will always be different than typing or swiping letters/words on a mobile device, as the latter requires eyesight.
Updated 03-Aug-2025
On January 1, 2009 CNN published an article on memory. It's been a while since then, and so now would be a good time to review and expand on that article, in the hopes of improving our own memory.
