worth learning thai reading?

Dear Jim, Nina , Teng Kee and all,
I am in Thailand for the next few months and was thinking of taking up
Thai reading classes. Will this be useful for pali? For example does
Budsir give the thai translations as well as the Pali?
I need extra incentive to study as living in japan i will forget the thai
unless I can bring it into my pali studies.
Robert