Alphabet Cards

[tariq]

Hi

I've just started to learn thai at SOAS in London.

There's sooo many letters to learn I was wandering if anyone knew if there was anywhere I could buy some cards that have the letters (together with the sound in English) on them.

I'd like something fairly small (playing card size) that I can carry around and look at them when I have free time during the day. linch, tube etc.

Cheers

Tariq...

[ProfessorFart]

To be honest I wouldn't bother buying any (if you can actually buy such a thing) as the SOAS course is so intense that you will know the alphabet in a week anyway (and be reading in the same amount of time) so there is little point in buying something which will be obsolete in such a short time.

You may as well make your own using blank cards. Its good writing practice and making your own will help to cement the alphabet into your memory. You'll need to get blank cards anyway for vocab cards as you progress in the course which you can get at any decent stationers. Try the shop in the Union.

Good luck and enjoy the course!

[richard10365]

On this website

http://www.learningthai.com/thai_alphabet.html

Print up the letters of the alphabet and tape or glue them to a deck of playing cards.

you can also use it to learn how to say the letters correctly.

[iamguava]

Hi Tariq

You can buy flashcards with the Thai alphabet from this link:

Alphabet flashcards

Lots of other material to help your studies there too

[tariq]

Hi

Thanks for the replies. All useful.

Kop khun krup. ( Hopefully, I'll be able to write that in Thai soon!)

Tariq...

[richard10365]

Hi

Thanks for the replies. All useful.

Kop khun krup. ( Hopefully, I'll be able to write that in Thai soon!)

Tariq...

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When I was learning to write in Thai, I took one Thai letter and wrote it on one sheet of paper from top to bottom. I would do 2 or 3 letters a day that way until finished the consonants of the Thai Alphabet.

After I finished that, I started writing the letters according to their consonant class. I would write the low consonant class first on a sheet of paper over and over again. Then I would write the middle consonant class on another sheet of paper and then the high. After that, I would write the vowels in the same way.

Each time you write the consonant or the vowel, say it outloud (or in your head).

In about a month, I could look at a Thai newspaper and recognize all the letters. and say them correctly.

Learning to make words out of these letters is a little harder. Most of the time, I can read Thai, I just don't know what I am reading.

An easy way to pratice reading Thai is to use a English to Thai dictionary. You look at a word in English and then the transliteration into Thai script. That will give you an idea of how the Thai vowels and consonants work together to make a word.

After a while, you will be able to take any English word and write it the way it sounds using Thai consonants and vowels.

If your an English teacher, this helps a lot when it comes to getting your kids to pronounce English words correctly.

[mijan24]

On this website

http://www.learningthai.com/thai_alphabet.html

Print up the letters of the alphabet and tape or glue them to a deck of playing cards.

you can also use it to learn how to say the letters correctly.

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richard10365 The link you have provided is one of the most informative I have read for a long time. Maybe the adm/mods could provide a "Pinned thread" where references such as this can be stored.(to save it becoming cluttered additional references to be edited by adm/mod prior to being added).