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LL
I agree, and there are several courses that use that system....one is the Linguaphone cousre, a popular and very expensive course from the UK, I think their system is the best and simplest I have ever seen. The second course I have is the US Military's course, which was given to me by one of their Linguistics experts many moons ago. This guy was incredible....fluent in Thai, Vietnamese and Khmer..I suspect he was actually CIA, but unlike some of the supposed CIA guys I have met over the years, he never said he was, which is a good clue to the genuine article. Anyway, their course is very different to the other described and I found it difficult to get off the ground with, it was also written in the 60's and had an old feel to it, sort of overcomplicated and long winded. I think it's in an attic in London somewhere now.
The truth as people have said, is bypass the transliteration and go straight to the Thai script.
One more footnote, transliteration has another failing. People of different languages put together different sounds with different letters. English is not my first language, and I know that if I transliterated something myself I would sometimes use different letters than an English speaking person. hence why i try to stick to what is the 'official' menthod.
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