learn thai

Right now when you walk around my house there are post-it notes everywhere with Thai words written on them attached to the relevant items, so I can start filling my awareness on a regular basis.

Next I think I’ll expand them out a bit to include a phrase as well, and start adding one or two every day.

I am struggling getting into my Audio Lessons though, I think because the accent and some of the pronunciation is very different to what I have encountered before in Thailand. But maybe I wasn’t listening closely enough and no one corrected me when I was wrong. (I only used a couple of phrases after all)

And I haven’t even started to address the actual lettering (Which looks like this: กัวเตมาลา ), I can’t even figure out how to write the individual characters, let alone attach meaning to them, so I need to do a bit of research into methodologies for picking up new reading languages.

After spending two weeks in Thailand as a tourist, and learning only 3 phrases for Hello, Thank You and Cool, when I go back for a serious amount of time at the end of the year, I really want to know a lot more of the language.

A lot of my travel buddies are thinking the same, so we will be able to practice with each other fairly easily, though speaking it shouldn’t be a problem, writing it might be more tricky since the characters are so different to anything I’m used to looking at.

Not sure if I’ll be able to get to a conversational level as I’ve never been good at languages, but I should be able to get to a practical level where I can go shopping and order food easily.