English-Tai Dam Language Lessons

California: Crown Production, 1980. — 85 p.
Language: Tai Dam (aka. Black Thai / Black Tai) in Tai Dam script, Lao and Latin transliteration; EnglishThe lessons contained in this book are designed so that a speaker of either Thai Dam or English can use then to learn the other language. It is recommended that anyone using this book seek the aid af a native speaker of the language he is studying. There are two reasons for this. First, no attempt has been made to make the contents of these lessons exhaustive. Rather, they provide only sample sentences dealing with various subjects and grammatical constructions. A native speaker can expand on these by substituting different vocabulary items Into the sentences provided. The second reason that it is important to seek the aid of a native speaker is that in studying any language only a native speaker can teach the correct pronunciation of his language.
These lessons do not consist of a word-for-word translation from one language to the other. Rather, an idiomatic translation has been used, with an attempt to say in each language what is appropriate in that language for the given context.