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[tootrickylady]

Sawatdee ka

Can anyone help me find free eboooks in Thai language, most of the sites I find take you all over the internet before you can get to the books then they don't download so can anyone help me find good thai books novels ideally but almost anything will do, I'm hoping there is a reliable site out there somewhere.

Khop khun ka in anticipation

Steph

[Nan]

Try this :

http://bbs.siamtalk.org/forumdisplay.php/35-E-BOOK

You have to register and activate for a membership, then you have to post anything on the one you want to download before seeing the download page.

[r2d2]

Steph, not fully sure whether this satisfy your request, but for my level of Thai ... I like very much "Horhook", among them my most favourit Ebook สายใยรัก.

[tootrickylady]

Thank you both, i will look into them, I'm sure I'll find something although I'm only OK at reading still need to keep my dictionary by my side
Thanks again for your help
Steph

[pensive]

Steph, not fully sure whether this satisfy your request, but for my level of Thai ... I like very much "Horhook", among them my most favourit Ebook สายใยรัก.

Great! The books read themselves to you.

[r2d2]

Great! The books read themselves to you.

@Steph: To render the book to read itself you have, in the book about the nok ngueak (นกเงือก/hornbill) to press on page 3 the button ฝังเนื้อเรื่อง (see also attached *.jpg), fang nuea rueang (my mediocre translation: "listen whole story").

@ the highly estimated authors of TL.com dic:

While searching for an English translation for นกเงือก, or a Thai translation for 'hornbill', I encountered the following phenomenon (have to add, first, that I know very well the term and bird, or genus, นกเงือก [spoken about them already with about 3 to 4 Thais], and would translate it, into German, 'Nashornvogel', literally 'Rhinoceros bird'//Rhino=Nase=nose, ceros/keras=Horn=horn).

Translating 'hornbill' with the support of TL.com it turns out to be นกงั่ง.
Translating 'นกเงือก' it turns out ... nothing ... while เงือก has the two meanings:

1. [noun] definition (chewing) gum
2. [noun] definition mermaid; merman

RID 1982, quoted by TL.com Dic, however gives 4 definitions, among them, 3rd, the following:

เงือก ๓ /เงือก/
[นาม] ชื่อนกในวงศ์ Bucerotidae ส่วนใหญ่ลำตัวสีดำ ปากใหญ่ อยู่รวมกันเป็นฝูงในป่าลึก เวลาบินเสียงดังมาก ขณะตกไข่ตัวเมียจะอยู่ในโพรงไม้ แล้วใช้เศษอาหารและอุจจาระปิดปากโพรงไว้ เหลือรูพอที่ตัวผู้จะหาอาหารมาป้อนให้ขณะกกไข่และเลี้ยงลูกอ่อนได้ ร้องเสียงดังมาก กินเนื้อสัตว์และผลไม้ มีหลายชนิด เช่น เงือกกรามช้าง (Rhyticeros undulatus) เงือกหัวแรด (Buceros rhinoceros) แก๊ก (Anthracoceros albirostris).

Nothing about right or wrong, but I guess the English term 'hornbill' translates into modern Thai as นกเงือก, and is not outdated since 1982?! May you have a look on the phenomenon described?

[tootrickylady]

Wow tou guys really do your homework . I'm still struggling with trying to make ng ง sound, every time i say snake i'm saying mouse....... so difficult but it makes the Thais laugh a lot, so thats good at least

I'll let this book read to me & maybe I can pick up some tips.

Thanks for all of your help

Steph

[Toffeeman]

Steph, not fully sure whether this satisfy your request, but for my level of Thai ... I like very much "Horhook", among them my most favourit Ebook สายใยรัก.

Excellent resource. Thx very much.

[r2d2]

Thx very much.

A pleasure.

[r2d2]

trying to make ng ง sound ... it makes the Thais laugh a lot, so thats good at least

Steph

Me too! My wife, after stopping laughing, she adds: So easy, as in German 'singen' (= to sing, en.). Yes, of course, but Bangkok isn't the problem. German has no initial /ng/, so, I often reply: "Or like in Italian gnocchi".

Found out now, thx to you, that she is right and I'm wrong:

singen: [ˈzɪŋən]
gnocchi [ˈɲɔkːi]
งู [ŋuː]

But this observation does not solve my problem with "initial ng 'as in singen'".