In-Flight Thai: Learn Before You Land [Audiobook, Large Print, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Living Language (Author)

Book Description

Series: In-Flight | Publication Date: June 19, 2001

Living Language In-Flight Thai is the perfect boarding pass to learning Thai before you land.

There's no better way to make use of all that spare time on a plane than to master the essentials of a language. This 60-minute program is the simplest way to learn just enough to get by in every situation essential to both the tourist and business traveler.

The program covers everything from greetings and polite expressions to asking directions, getting around, checking into a hotel, and going to a restaurant. There are even sections for meeting people and spending a night on the town.

Short lessons make In-Flight Thai easy to use, and a handy pocket-sized insert is included as a cheat sheet for use on the go.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Living Language; Unabridged edition (June 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609810995
• ISBN-13: 978-0609810996
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.6 x 7.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,937,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Fast, November 3, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: In-Flight Thai: Learn Before You Land (Audio CD)

Concept of this cd is good, learn basic Thai in a short length of time. Plus its the only Thai language tutorial that I know of thats on cd. The problem is that the Thai words and phrases are pronounced ridiculously fast for a beginner to comprehend. I've run this by 3 of my friends and they all felt that it was humorous to be expected to be able to imitate the pronunciations, many words were said so rapidly that none of my friends could begin to repeat them . The words should be said slowly once, then speeded up to the rate that native Thais speak. The small book is helpful, but to have to continually follow it while listening to the cd somewhat defeats the purpose of the cd. More repetition would also be most welcome. It seemed as though the authors never ran this by someone who had never spoken Thai.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Phrases sound computer generated, November 30, 2005

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K. Mayer (Honolulu, HI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In-Flight Thai: Learn Before You Land (Audio CD)

To my ear, it sounds like the Thai phrases were computer generated. Granted that the technology has come a long way since War Games, it is still not the same as a human speaker, or hopefully a native Thai speaker.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too fast but no other options on CD, July 14, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: In-Flight Thai: Learn Before You Land (Audio CD)

Way too Fast. Really hard to understand the language with this CD. Even hard for me to tell expresions I already know.