Thanks for the detailed feedback. please allow some follow-up questions from me:
Did you encounter difficulty in listening to the pronunciation? Regarding the pronunciation rule, is there any difference between now and what it was before? Regards, Xi On Sep 19, 11:04?pm, Lennart Moltrecht wrote: > Hi! > I'm currently staying in Thailand and trying to learn Thai, but it's > not that easy, so I often rely on Google Translate. Thank you very > much for hosting this great service and if I just enter single English > words, the translation is mostly perfect, but as you may know, Thai > has it's own writing which is not that easy. > So I often use the "read phonetically" feature to know how to > pronounce the words you've translated for me, but now it is really > just crap. A few days or weeks ago it seemed to have worked, but in > the past few days something changed and now I can forget using it. > > Easy example: ??????????????!! (I don't like lizards) > If I split the words: ?? ??? ??? ?????? (literally: I not like lizard) > ?? will be pronounced as "phom", although the letters just read "ph" > and "m", but there is the rule that if you just have 2 consonants you > connect them with an "o". Google Translate doesn't seem to know this > rule and just writes "phm" when I want to read it phonetically. > ??? should be "mai" since ? is "ai", but Translate gives me "mi". > ??? is "chob", but there is the next problem. ? (or ang) is a > difficult letter that can have many different pronunciations, so > Translate doesn't seem to know which one to use and just puts "x", so > I get "chxb" which doesn't help... > Last but not least, ?????? is similar to "jing-jog" or "ching-chog". > For jing/ching, all the letters are there (????, jor jaan, i, ngo > ngu), but for ?? the same rule as in my first word applies: put an "o" > between 2 consonants. Reading phonetically doesn't seem to manage that > and just gives me "ck". > > It would be great if you could add the basic rules of Thai reading so > the feature can actually be used. Now it's just crap!!!! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-translate-general?hl=en.
