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Book Recommendation...this is 55 stories taken from Naa Nek's call in show, with sections on Love, Family, Friends, Work, Life Goals and Misc. The book is mostly written in colloquial language and gives some interesting insight on Thai culture. I think someone at high B1 who is patient and doesn't mind using a dictionary could work their way through it but it's more suited for B2+. I think I'm mid B2 level and I averaged maybe 4-5 unknown words per page. The book is 255 pages long but there is a lot of empty space and sections with large text so it's about normal 100 pages.

Master List of Thai YouTube channels with subtitles. Language Reactor works with all Netflix native Thai material as far as I can tell so no need to list it here. I will update this list whenever I find a new channel or one is recommended. I prefer ones with subtitle files so they can be used with LR but there are some good shows with the subtitles printed on the screen so I will list those also. Not every video on every channel has subtitles, many will be labelled with [CC].

With Subtitle Files:

Point of View

เล่าเรื่องรอบโลก by Karuna Buakamsri

DrAmp Team

Dhamma. com

SpokeDark TV

เสมเสวนา SEM Talk

Mahidol Channel มหิดล แชนแนล

Go Went Go

With on-screen subs:

Club Friday Show interviews

Nanake 555

With Leo's permission, I want to create a catch-all thread for Thai. Ask questions, tell us about your favorite YouTube channels/movies/series/books, resource recommendations/reviews, etc.

I'll start it off by listing my favorite resources. I started learning Thai using Becker's books and websites that are long gone, along with going to a language school in Thailand, so I don't have any great recommendations for books for beginners or on how to read. 

My main method of studying these days is using the Language Reactor extension (formerly Language Learning with Netflix) with Thai subtitled videos on Netflix and YouTube. For those not familiar with it, it opens a window beside the video with line-by-line subtitles. You can click on individual lines to repeat them and there's a pop-up mouse-over dictionary. It has other features like saving vocabulary but I just use Anki for that. This has been an absolute game-changer for me and it works with most other languages too.

Thai Reference Grammar by Higbie and Thinsan is the best grammar book available.

100 Words That Make You Sound Thai and the sequel Another 100 Words... by Stephen Saad. He is a fluent foreigner and these books talk about his method and give tips along with the 100 Words (which is actually a few hundred because he gives example sentences, alternative similar words, etc.). These books are focused on colloquial speech and his descriptions are excellent. He has a beginner book also which is most likely very good as well.