Thai Language

[khundanny]

Any advice out there on learning to read Thai? I've not even been able to master the alphabet yet and have spurts of learning motivation. Suggestions please.

[krading]

I did it by memorising the letters of the alphabet in their respective classes. High class, mid and low class. As you know, the class is one of the things that determines the tone of the word. Try memorising one class of letters at a time. It's not as hard as it seems. You can also buy computer discs that have memory games etc on them.

[MTLae]

Any advice out there on learning to read Thai? I've not even been able to master the alphabet yet and have spurts of learning motivation. Suggestions please.

Dear Khundanny,

We are Thai school called "MTL or My Thai Language School" From our advice of the way that we teach our students. You have to try to remember all Thai alphabets and vowels first. Since you remember how to pronounce them. Then you can try to combine the letter and vowel together. Example. gor (ก) + a (ะ) = ga (กะ), gor (ก) + aa (า) = gaa (กา) You can pratice to mix letter and vowel one by one and we beleive that you will get better very soon. Then you just learn to remember the meaning of each word that how to spell and the meaning because in Thai we write different even pronounce same sound. It will be much more easier to learn step by step from alphabet and vowel than jump step to remember the words like Chinese because we are not the same system. Some of them try to learn Thai by memorize by word. If they may remember the words and meanings but if they want read the text out of their book. They cannot do it. We wish you succeed to study Thai. You may share us that which technic is work out for you.

Cheer up, สู้ สู้

Kroo Ae

[siam2007]

I learned to read it in 2 periods of just 10 days each (learning about 4 hours a day, including "field trips") from a FARANG near Mae Sai, who lives in TH since 25 years.

I was astonished how quickly I was able to adopt it. that was at a time, when I didnt SPEAK any Thai at all. If you can SPEAK some basic Thai, it should be even more easy to learn.....