Seeing as the good old Thai forum is dead now, I figured I'd start a topic for Lao here. (I honestly have no idea why someone started a Lao thread in the Thai forum anyway).
I'll start by posting some online resources:
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/lao/laolangu ... age_fp.htm (the best "textbook" for the serious student, also has a good dictionary as well)
http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Lao (another really good textbook from FSI, however it's only written in transcription and has no audio)
http://www.sealang.net/lao/dictionary.htm (another excellent Lao dictionary)
Unfortunately, there isn't much else that I am aware of online.
Next time I'll go through some book resources. But feel free to post in the mean time on anything Lao or Laos related if you like.