David, an intermediate student, demonstrates his understanding of Thai, while using English to answer.

An AUA Thai Student talks about his experience learning Thai (in Thai)

One of the reasons that I had chosen to study Thai via ALG, as opposed to more traditional language learning methods, was the claim that students who went through the program and stuck to the ALG methodology ended up with native (or near native) level fluency. The credibility of this claim appeared stronger and stronger to me as I progressed through the program and my comprehension of spoken Thai grew.