Thai for Lovers Tape Set

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Summary: Rip off - Avoid at all cost
Review: The authors claim this is a companion guide to the book, Thai For Lovers. I bought both. The book is just a bunch of rude phrases without a glossary or dictionary - and the tape is just the lightning quick insulting Thai phrases delivered by the Thai bargirl who married the guy who wrote this book. You can't learn Thai from this...there is no way one can learn the pronunciation...and the phrases are way too impolite to use in society. Avoid this at all cost.

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Summary: Great concept, but poorly executed.
Review: The book version of the tapes fills a void that most Thai - English dictionaries leave in that it provides translations of phrases which most farangs will encounter in day to day life abroad in Thailand. However, the cassettes are merely a rapid fire recantation of the words in the book...with no slow syllable by syllable phrasing - so that a list ener can easily learn the hard to grasp Thai pronunciation. With its five different tones Thai is a difficult language for westerners to master, and these tapes do little to facilitate the task.

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Summary: Thai for Lovers Tape Set
Review: There is no book that comes with the tape cassetes rendering the tapes useless. The authors pronounce the phrases in a hasty manner making it hard to follow. All in all, I am very dissatisfied with the Tape Set. You have to purchase the book to effectively use the tapes, otherwise forget the tapes. Not worth it, I seen a better deal. Thanks, but no thanks.

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Summary: Horrible
Review: This book is poorly done...do not be fooled by the good reviews that are continually posted by the author for his own work. One cannot possibley learn Thai from this...it is merely a bunch of phrases used by sex tourists.

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Summary: Useless
Review: This is no way to learn Thai. Two uneducated Thai people sitting at a table with a sex tourist reading simplistic sex talk in Thai. If one is trying to learn Thai they will have no success here, since the narrators speak poorly and also way too fast for you farangs to learn

Rating:
Summary: A rip off. Avoid at all cost.
Review: This is so lame and poorly conceived that one would think it was an educational initiative from George Bush. The authors never gave a moment of thought as to how one learns a new language - through building skills through repetition and learning the basic sounds of a language. There is neither here. All there is a poorly recorded (the sound levels change drastically from speaker to speaker) recitation of the accompanying book. The book is a monument to stupidity and nothing short of a rip off.

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Summary: Poorly done
Review: To learn Thai, first of all the English person needs to hear the words slowly and with a degree of repetition. This poorly executed tapes is merely the author saying a trailer trash phrase in English and having it repeated by his bargirl girlfriend. A true waste of money for anyone attempting to learn Thai