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Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1

Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 book and DVD teaches you to speak practical everyday conversational Isaan Thai with the correct pronunciation. It's ideal for absolute beginners, as well as those who know some Isaan Thai but wish to improve their pronunciation. It will also benefit anyone wishing to broaden their practical Isaan Thai conversational abilities within highly relevant everyday situations.

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The book provides the knowledge and insight into the language framework and usage and is designed to give you the understanding, vocabulary and ability to converse with people from Isaan effectively and comfortably from first meeting. 

The three hour DVD featuring the 'see, hear, speak' system ensures you learn how to pronounce words and word tones correctly. You see the word or phrase, hear the word or phrase spoken by an native Isaan Thai speaker, and then speak the word or phrase replicating the pronunciation and tones. It is the most effective way of learning to speak Isaan Thai with the correct pronunciation and rhythm.

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Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 teaches a comprehensive knowledge of the Isaan Thai language within key situations regular visitors to Thailand will be familiar with. It’s packed full of words, phrases and language know-how you’ll use everyday when coming in contact with people from NE Thailand including:-

• Composing Isaan Thai sentences: the basic structure of the language
• Key personal pronouns and how they are used
• The key polite particles and how to use them
• The 11 main ways to greet people and the form responses should take
• The 8 main ways of saying goodbye
• The 6 top questions asked when initially meeting someone and how to respond
• Key words and exclamations to show interest
• Composite words and how to create them
• The 10 main question words and how they are used
• The five main question tags, their usage and how to respond
• How to indicate tenses with present, past and future activity words
• The 5 key request words that you’ll use regularly
• The top 9 food questions that are regularly asked when enjoying a meal with Isaan people, and how to respond
• Key food and food characteristic words you’ll use everyday
• Ways of saying thank you and acknowledging one
• The key ‘want’, ‘like’, ‘take’ and ‘bring’ words and phrases
• Important words you’ll need to use to soften negative responses to questions
• Key words and phrases you’ll hear and use when drinking with Thai people
• Asking and responding to the  ‘Are you having fun?’ question
• Key questions you’ll be asked about your Isaan Thai language ability, and responses
• All the main family kinship terms and questions you’ll face
• Important grammar knowledge that will rapidly expand your vocabulary range and understanding: use of pre-fixes that modify word meanings
• Extensive vocabulary building using the top opposite words
• And much, much more!

Quite simply, there is no other Isaan Thai learning package on the market that approaches teaching you Isaan Thai in the same way.

This is language that you will use everyday when mixing with Isaan people in Thailand. It’s based on the everyday real life situations farangs will find themselves in when meeting and mixing with Thais from Isaan. It provides the key language words and conversation phrases that are always used in these situations. The language learned is useful in a way the language learnt in other Thai language learning books is not.

It’s a true language and cultural survival guide that anyone with an affection for Thailand and her people will benefit from. Whether you speak no Isaan Thai, some Isaan Thai or lots of Isaan Thai, this book will add immeasurably to your language speaking effectiveness. Don’t delay, buy it now!

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Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 is more than just a language and culture survival guide! Discover some amazing facts about the Isaan people and Thailand.

• Why don’t infants like to wai and sawaddee kap?
• What is the connection between a certain Thai fruit and falang man?
•  Why do Isaan people delight in telling you ‘Back home is better’ when they say goodbye?
• Why is your Thai partners name different to the one on her birth certificate?
• Why are so many Thai birthdays on national father’s day and mother’s day?
• Why is a Joe Brown called Mr. Joe and not Mr. Brown?
• What is the connection between the chilli and the famous Thai smile?
• What is the kow nee-o wave?
• What is the drinking etiquette for drinking white whisky, coloured whisky and beer?
• Why are bottle openers so rare in Isaan?
• Why does your Isaan wife / girl friend appear to have so many grand mothers, sisters and brothers?

Find out the answers to these questions and so many other fascinating facts in Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 – a language guide like no other!

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