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Published January 06, 2016 Updated May 29, 2022

Learn Thai

“Learn Thai” cards published by Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd, 2009.

2009 Thailand Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd Education Ethnic & Indigenous Add to Collection

“Learn Thai” cards are described as an easy to use innovative system to learn faster through visual memory. Published by Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd, 2009. Each card depicts a consonant sound and name and how to write the character, while the backs illustrate the phonetics and class of consonant.

“Learn Thai” cards published by Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd, 2009 “Learn Thai” cards published by Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd, 2009 “Learn Thai” cards published by Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd, 2009

Above: “Learn Thai” cards published by Lanna Innovation Co. Ltd, 2009. 44 cards in box.

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By Simon Wintle

Member since February 01, 1996

Founder and editor of the World of Playing Cards since 1996. He is a former committee member of the IPCS and was graphics editor of The Playing-Card journal for many years. He has lived at various times in Chile, England and Wales and is currently living in Extremadura, Spain. Simon's first limited edition pack of playing cards was a replica of a seventeenth century traditional English pack, which he produced from woodblocks and stencils.


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