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Yes, the sound quality is very good and you can hear the playfulness and the sense of humour coming through from the two speakers.

Not sure if you are looking for any more topic suggestions or the recording is now complete, but a few more came to mind recently.

เด็กแว้นซ์, สก๊อย - A friend of mine was recently telling me about these two sub groups of young men and women that are into fast cars / motorbikes, and have a particular fashion sense. It would be interesting for me to know a bit about the different sub groups in society.

Political System, Elections - I know politics is not allowed as a topic and I can understand why. But without getting into any issues or controversies it could be helpful to know a bit about the structures of government, how elections work, how the leader is selected..etc. This would be helpful in being able to understand the news a bit better. 

Role of the King - The role of the power and monarchy in Thailand seem to be much stronger than in other monarchies today such as the United Kingdom. It would be helpful to understand this role a bit.

Justice Systems - Law and the courts.

I am not meaning for these topics to be controversial, but more of a bit of a civics lesson. In any case, if these topics are too hot I completely understand. Again loving the work so far. 

Big thank you to Leosmith and the team. I have really been enjoying studying with the Thai conversations posted so far.

I am really excited that Thai is being added.

I am not sure if you are looking for topics but I would love to hear conversations about some of the following:

Role of woman in society (any changes over time), opinions on neighbouring countries eg Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and perception of immigrants from these countries living in Thailand, dating and romance (bad dates, how the met a partner, wedding ceremonies, breaking up etc), work - worst job, easiest job.

Scandals - well known national stories of business leaders or celebrities that fell from grace. Famous moments in the country that they remember when they were a kid or an adult and what it was like to live through that at the time for instance some national sporting triumph, flood or passing of the former king etc.

1 Vote for Thai, please.

Yes, working now for both old and new texts. Cheers.

Hello Leo and the team,

I have been having problems for a while now when trying to create new passages. This has occured on both the chrome and firefox browsers on a Windows 10 computer. I will add the text, enter all the relevant details in the sub-headings and then click either 'save and open' or 'save'. The 'processing' icon will start to turn and keep going on indefinitely without completing the task. 

In the attached image below you can see a few texts that I have attempted to add where the process has not been completed fully. When you click on these passages there are no words visible.

Yes, it's fixed now thanks.

Thanks!

Windows 10 with Chrome.

The one below for Thai would be great to add too:

https://www.thai2english.com/

I had not thought of altering the text size. Sure that does the job as a workaround....it does muck up the formatting of the boxes on the page a bit - see formatting, so perhaps adding this function could still be useful, but the browser option does get the job done.

As for mobile, I haven't tried reading there yet.

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Hello, Just started using the reading tool and I am really enjoying it. Its great that you have it for Thai and a bunch of other under-resourced languages. 

One feature that I would find helpful though would be to be able to make the text size bigger. Would be very helpful in improving readability.

Thanks!