Thailand Stories

Thai Flash helps you to learn the Thai alphabet. Each character is displayed as a card ( flash card ). Create your own combination of cards and settings, and swipe left or right to move backwards and forwards in the deck. This new app called “Thai Flash” is probably all you need for learning…

This is a new iPad app for children to teach them how to write Thai letters correctly. It is aimed at young Thai kids but could just as easily be used by expat children or even their parents. The price of First Write Thai when first released was 99 Cents but…

The 29th July is observed every year in Thailand as National Thai Language Day. In celebration of this, Thailand Post have today released a set of 44 stamps, each with one letter of the alphabet. I have two sets of these stamps which I am giving away to two lucky winners on my Facebook public page. All you have to …

Audioboo is an application for recording and sharing your voice with the world. There are quite a few apps that you can buy for the iPhone to record your podcast. Many of them are probably better than this one. But, I like the simplicity of Audioboo for making podcasts. It is great for amateurs…

If you’ve been learning the Thai alphabet, this app will take your reading ability to the next level. Practice reading Thai words and sentences in the Thai script. For the past few weeks I have been playing around with a new app for the…

Let the beautiful women of Thai Language Hostess accompany you on your travels and assist you with speaking and learning Thai whenever you desire. There are quite a few iPhone apps out there for people wanting to learn Thai. Many of them are quite similar. The…

Are you vacationing in Thailand? Do you love Thai food? If you answered, “yes”, to either questions, then this app is for you! The other day I was telling you about the Thai Food Flashcards that had recently been released for the iPhone. While I was busy doing a test run of that app on the street, another similar …

Learn Thai Squiggles makes learning the Thai alphabet easy. The latest iPhone app for learning the Thai alphabet is called “Learn Thai Squiggles” . It groups these consonants into the three classes which are important when it comes to learning the tone rules. The fourth section is for letters that are hardly used…

Learn Thai Pro is an easy to use mobile Thai Phrase Book that will give visitors to Thailand and those who are interested in learning Thai a good start in the language. A  month or so ago I reviewed an excellent Thai phrasebook for the iPhone called Learn Thai (see review ). I noted at the …

Learn Thai is a free, easy to use mobile app to give visitors to Thailand a good start to learning the language. It is starting to be a crowded market for iPhone apps for learning the Thai language. So many have been released of varying quality. I must …

Translate words and phrases between more than 50 languages using Google Translate for iPhone. For most languages, you can speak your phrases and hear the corresponding translations. There are already a number of apps for the iPhone and iPad that makes use of Google Translate. Some are…

Paiboon Publishing’s new iPhone app makes it easy to study your Thai lessons wherever you go with your iPhone or iPod Touch. The Thai for Beginners app for the iPhone is aimed at people who are using the popular book of the same name written by Benjawan Poomsan Becker  (buy book online here ).  Benjawan has a …

HEdictionary English Thai HD for iPad The HEdictionary English Thai has separate versions for the iPhone and the iPad. It can be used by people learning Thai or for those learning English. I think really it is more set up for Thai people learning English. …

Thai dictionaries have come a long way since the time when I first started learning Thai about seventeen years ago. Back then, most Thai/English dictionaries in the shops were for Thai students. Not much good if you couldn’t read…

Thai Talkboard for the iPad for learning Thai is certainly interesting in it’s approach. Instead of categories and scrolling lists, it gives you a “talk board” where what you see is what you get. Click on any of the phrases and words to hear a native speaker. It is of course very limiting as you only get this one page…

With over 2,000 “survival” phrases and 10,000 words the Thai-English-Thai Collins Phrasebook & Dictionary will meet all your language needs and will make your trips more comfortable and fun. There must be several dozen phrasebooks by now for people who are learning…

Whether you’re on a short trip to Thailand or studying the Thai language in-depth, this iPhone app is the one dictionary you can really use. There are already quite a few Thai/English dictionary apps for the iPhone. Most are aimed at Thai people and so are not good if you…

These are five free iPhone apps aimed at helping Thai kids with learning Thai and English. Although they are for Thai children, adults learning Thai might find some of these apps useful because of the Thai commentary. I Know My ABC I Know My Shapes I Know my…

These are five bilingual books for children in Thai and English which are free for the iPhone. They are aimed at Thai children but adults learning Thai might find them useful as well. You can choose to listen to the narration in Thai or …

Speak Thai Sanuk is an easy to use talking Thai phrasebook for the iPhone. There have been quite a few iPhone apps for people learning Thai over the last year. Some have been better than others. From experience I have found out that …