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I recommend the website learningthai.com as a start. For books, my favourite are: Teach Yourself Thai (except it uses a strange transliteration/spelling in Roman letters), Thai: An Essential Grammar (to understand structures), and all of Benjawan Poomsan's books and dictionary. I also watch subtitled Thai lakorn (soap opera/telenovela) on YouTube for listening practice. I was lucky to live near a Thai Buddhist Temple here in California that offered classes too. Choke dee krub! (best luck!)

yes, agree with u! so hard to find thai teacher... same as u, i really wanna learn thai