L-Lingo Learn Thai HD app for iPhone and iPad
Developer: Smart Language Apps Limited
First release : 29 Aug 2011
App size: 15.43 Mb
You dont have to know anything about the Thai language to use L-Lingo Thai to equip yourself to converse in Thai. In our 105 lessons, you have the option to learn in Thai script, or in the Latin characters familiar from Western European countries (using the Royal Thai General System of Transcription). This Version is especially designed for the iPad.
L-Lingo is designed to be easy to use. It exploits multimedia channels - words, recordings of native speech, and pictures - to enable you to grasp Thai words and phrases useful on the road, when mingling with Thai speakers, in day-to-day or family life, and when working.
- Thousands of words and sentences -all visualized with images
- Full native speaker pronunciation
- Slow speech option for better understanding of Thai pronunciation
- Grammar notes to explain you the structure of the Thai language
- Clear and easy to understand design of the program
- Switch between Thai Script or the more easy to read Phonetic Script
See a pineapple in a supermarket, and the correct Thai word pops into your head! Thanks to L-Lingo, you have learned the word visually, as well as by listening and reading. Our Thai lessons make you learn Thai words and phrases quickly. Before you know it, you can easily utter Thai words and Thai sentences!
L-Lingo immerses you in the sights and sounds of the Thai language, rather than just the written word. The multi-channel Thai learning approach achieves results much quicker than traditional textbook approaches.
Our Thai 105 lessons cover the following:
- Introductions & Greetings
- At Home
- At the Airport
- At the Hotel
- Colors
- Food
- At the Office
- Professions
- Numbers
- Clothes
- Telling the Time in Thai
- Animals
- Meals and Cooking
- Asking Questions in Thai
- Buying and Selling
- Landscapes and Nature
- Weather
- Sports
- Family and Relationships
- Countries and Continents
- Seasons
- Shopping
- Days, Weeks, Months etc.
- Quantities and Shapes
- Present, Past and Future tenses
Latest reviews of L-Lingo Learn Thai HD app for iPhone and iPad
I have L-Lingo Thai and Rosetta Stone Thai on my PC and they are similar in teaching structure. There are 65 lessons here and this will improve your vocabulary considerably. I am so happy this was transferred to the iPad, so I can study on the go now. If you want to learn Thai this is by far the best and most comprehensive app available, probably other than Rosetta which you can get for $200 plus. The only thing this is missing are lessons on the Thai alphabet, but all words are shown in Thai, English, and transliteration. Pictures, sound from native speakers, builds upon previous lessons, tests to challenge you, Outstanding!
This app has made learning Thai soooooooo much easier.... My wife is Thai so I have been trying to learn her language... Most apps just teach you vocabulary, but this program will teach you sentence structure, grammar plus vocabulary. They show you a set of pictures, and you will hear a Thai speaker. You choose the picture that matches what the thai speaker said... You wouldnt believe how incredibly easy and fast it is to learn. I can now speak simple sentences in Thai with my wife and shes blown away by how much I have learned in 1 month. My only complaint is I am worried that I will finish all the lessons by the end of the year and will be hungry to jump into another course... So to the makers of this app, can you please start working on making the intermediate and advanced so I can just jump right in?! For 20$ its a bargain.
As noted, this app is very similar in style and method to Rosetta Stone. You will learn. Unfortunately, you will learn a stilted form of very formal Thai that is spoken only by people who learned Thai from L-Lingo or Rosetta. No Thai people actually speak like this. A big tell is that both programs use the word สุนัข (sunak) for dog. You never hear that in common speech, only in writing or formal utterances. The commonly used word is หมา (ma). The methodology is good. I am using it to improve my vocabulary. It would be much, much better if it used the every day Thai that you actually hear when you are out and about. (My wife, a Thai lawyer, finds the language used here and in Rosetta Stone to be hilarious. Sometimes she falls into what she calls "Rosetta Stone Thai" and leaves me rolling on the floor.) So, yes it will help with vocabulary. No, it will not teach you to communicate with ordinary Thai people.