Learn Thai: A Beginner's Guide to the Structure of the Thai Language Paperback – April 19, 2017

The book has many grammatical errors and many expressions are not used by native Thai speakers (some idioms and expressions are not being used correctly). Also, the book does not have page numbers. It is not a good study guide for any foreign students.

Interesting book that pulls together many aspects of Thai. As is true for many Thai language books, the "romanization" system used is not particularly helpful, but that seems to be par for the course -- any "romanization" is affected by many things such as is the system designed to aid a resident of England, Australia or the US -- each of which pronounces many words with different sounds. And in many cases the "romanization" is not present, leaving one to read the Thai script to make out the pronunciation -- for example, in tenses it states "Continuous tense is indicated by the regular present tense verb or by adding กำลัง." Examples follow, but there is no indication of how one might pronounce กำลัง. As I have learned how to usually sound out Thai script, that is not a huge issue, but for a true beginner, it might be. But the book is commendable for its clear treatment of tenses and generally helpful discussion of parts of speech. My four stars is because I have not found many (perhaps "any") Thai grammar books that treat so many topics. I wish the ebook had a Table of Contents and pagination. It takes time to find subjects on your own. As one dabbling with learning Thai, I like this book for all its limitations. I have found that the Paiboon Thai-English dictionary on google play is an excellent resource which I use with all of my Thai language study aids.

Structured nicely. Only thing is difficult if unfamiliar with the phonics of Thai it may be troublesome.