new Thai Language textbook

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

Announcing:
"Thai Language and Culture for Beginners"
A  new Thai Language Course Book set for Beginners
by
Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong    
Thai Language Program, University of Hawai'i-Manoa  

Distributed by University of Hawai’i Press
For more information and sample lesson & sample pages, visit the book’s website at: 
                             www.yhoonchamlong.net
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Thai Language and Culture for Beginners aims to provide a basic foundation for conversational Standard Thai for beginning learners. It focuses on developing the learners’ listening and speaking skills. 
Designed primarily for use in a Thai as a Foreign Language class in U.S. universities, this course book uses a proficiency-based approach to learning Thai and covers the daily real life topics and situations that a student might encounter. 
Each volume set consists of: 
• Coursebook
• Companion Audio/Video CD (in mp3 and mpeg formats)
• Companion Dialog Video clips DVD (NTSC format) 
The Thai Language and Culture for Beginners coursebook set (Book 1 and Book 2) consists of 31 lessons (20 lessons in Book 1 and 11 lessons in Book2) and appendix sections providing samples of songs and poems of Thailand, as well as an index to structural patterns introduced in the text and a vocabulary index in both Thai to English and English to Thai order, providing both IPA transcription and Thai script. 
The accompanying audio-CD provides the reading of the terms and expressions introduced in each lesson. The video-DVD provides video-clips of the enactment of the contextualized dialogs as audio-visual samples of language usage. 
This Thai Language and Culture for Beginners course book set and the accompanying audio-CD and video-DVD were developed during 2003-2006 with funding from the U.S. Department of Education (International Research and Studies Program Grant Award No. P017A030070). 

Book Details
Book 1 Paperback, 295 pages, Dimension 7.25 x 10.25 inches, 
  ISBN: 978-974-7512-25-0, Published in August 2007 
  List price (with CD and DVD) $95
Book 2 Paperback, 195 pages, Dimension 7.25 x 10.25 inches, 
  ISBN: 978-974-7512-26-7, Published in August 2007 
  List price (with CD and DVD) $85

About the author:
Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong is Associate Professor of Thai and Coordinator of the Thai Language Program at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. She taught Thai Linguistics for more than ten years at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand, and since 1984 she has had extensive experience teaching Thai as a foreign language at various U.S. universities. She has been teaching Thai at the University of Hawai'i since 2001.