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I'm enjoying it so far. The high audio production quality appeals to me and the lesson structure reminds me of Pimsleur.
The downside is that I'm currently very ineffectively retaining the material even when listening to the lesson multiple times. I've been listening to it while eating and driving and maybe the reason is I'm not entirely devoting my attention to it while multitasking. I haven't been using it long and will be experimenting with different ways for more effectively studying the material.
Some ideas I have right now are using an audio repeater app for segments of audio I want to loop a few times
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.darby
have also considered making Anki cards out of the vocabulary and phrases and using AwesomeTTS text-to-speech (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/301952613)
I just started using Repeat Player https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.darby It seems like it could be such a valuable tool but I'm just starting out with it.
I'm leaning a couple of pretty complex songs and I've tried editing the MP3 into segments so I can work on 1 segment at a time. This app allows repeat of segments which is perfect!
Also, I'm trying to learn the intro for Hot for Teacher by Van Halen and being able to slow it down and play along is amazing.
A few randomly ordered points. Some are Thai specific while others are general language learning tips.
1) Learn the script. Without the ability to understand the script googling words you hear or looking up how to pronounce something you see written down is virtually impossible.
2) Check memrise for relevant courses to help you learn the script. Here are two I found after a quick google. I spent all of ten seconds finding these so I have no idea if they are any good :D
http://www.memrise.com/course/53858/thai-alphabet-crash-course/
http://www.memrise.com/course/120952/thai-alphabet-for-dummies/
3) Focus a lot on input (listening and reading). Teachers and courses will often push you to do production (speaking and writing) really early to make you feel like you have achieved something but I suspect that this is actually counterproductive in the long term.
Being able to understand speech and writing around you is by far the most important skill to develop. It is incredibly common for language learners to be able to say a reasonable amount but to be completely lost the moment a native speaker replies to them. Focus on understanding the language rather than speaking the language. Learning to replicate sounds you understand is relatively easy compared to learning to understand sounds and symbols coming at you.
As soon as you have some basic vocab and the ability to read a bit find yourself some audio that comes with a transcript. You want to be listening to one or more people speak in your target language while reading along also in the target language.
I'm sorry but I don't have any links to Thai resources for this. With any luck you can find yourself something like a university Thai language course that has made recorded dialogues with associated transcripts publicly available. A lot of that exists for more popular languages like Mandarin but I haven't seen it for Thai (although I haven't looked that hard).
4) For the above get a player like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.darby It allows you to loop a single audio track and also to loop a section of a track. For example you can have a single sentence play over and over.
Expect to listen/read the same content many many times. Regularly drip feed new stuff into your pool of content but expect to be going over the same stuff a lot.
5) Songs can be really helpful especially if you can get the lyrics printed out so you can read along while listening. Kid's songs and slow romantic songs (or any slow songs) are particularly good.
Print the lyrics so you can read along while listening.
6) Over time you can work your way up increasingly complex stuff. Do not be tempted to start listening to really advanced material that you do not currently have any realistic chance of understanding. Listening to people babble away while you understand nothing is a waste of time. You want to be consuming content that you understand a non-trivial percentage of, ideally this will be content where you can simultaneously listen and read.
Audacity.
Or something like this? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kr.co.darby