[LivinLOS]

The courses I have seen are

The very expensive Rosetta stone course... I felt this was pretty poor course.. I downloaded a pirate from emule and what you have is a system where you click pictures and play some kind of games and it is 100% in thai spoken back to you.. Now I understand the rationalization of total immersion but that leaves some other probelm. for example in a picture of a blue ball is the Thai word they are saying 'blue' 'ball' or what ?? To me it felt like there was a lot of missing info in that it should obviously give you the thai word complete with tones but it should also let you know somehow what they are trying to tell you.. All in all I was very unimpressed..

I also have the Pimsluer Thai course of 10 lessons.. This is a good introduction to Thai I think, covers a lot of basics, gets you asking directions, how to address male and female, groups etc.. A good starting popint for a basic into..

Lastly if you wish to learn and keep learning the series of Books by Benjamin Poomsan Becker (Thai for begginers) come with a CD and workbook and start from the ground up.. These books tend to factor in a stronger desire to keep learning so start you with the writing side also but are inexpensive and a good package.. I currently keep these lessons on my cellphones MP3 player and listen if I am waiting for anything..

Pimsleur for basics.. Benjamin's stuff to learn and progress..

Pimsluer is also on emule..