Brighde Reed is pleased with 2009 so far.
I am in a class which I go to every week, I also like to practice with taxi drivers.
Anki is great for practicing.
Brighde Reed is pleased with 2009 so far.
I am in a class which I go to every week, I also like to practice with taxi drivers.
Anki is great for practicing.
mulysamaybe wonders if she is human or dancer...or what that even means.
I definitely learn better with face-to-face practice. I have some basic phrases down thanks to traveling and language lessons on CD (“Where is the bathroom?”, “I don’t understand Thai”, “How much is this?”, etc). However, I still can’t have a conversation with my family. There are so many things I’d love to know that I wouldn’t be able to do without learning Thai myself. Today, I hunted around online for a Thai language class in my area in the hopes of gaining some human interaction to correct my pronunciation and practice conversations with. I found a temple about 30 miles away, whose website is outdated and e-mail address doesn’t work. Next. Then, I found something called Thai Language Center in my city, but their website did not work and no one answered the phone number. Either way, I left a message so hopefully someone gets back to me with good news about an adult Thai language class (that fits in my schedule and isn’t overly expensive). Wish me luck!
I thought I would post some of my resources to help others:
http://thai-language.com/
http://learnthaifromawhiteguy.com/
http://www.rikker.blogspot.com/
http://www.thailandqa.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=5
http://www.learningthai.com/books/manee/index.html
http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/Thai-language-f43.html
http://womenlearnthai.com/
http://thailanguagehut.com/blog/
Im moving to thailand to teach English. Given I dont need to know thai to do this…but i think it’ll make my stay there much more meaningful if i knew the language before hand. I have 1 months! any suggestions???
maniacmidget Carving pumpkins today!
The subject line show how many letters are in the Thai alphabet. Well, only the consonants count in the actual alphabet. I have this book called “Easy Thai: An Introduction to the Thai Language” and so far it’s been pretty helpful. I’ve just started learning the low-class consonants and some vowels. The book has started putting some words together using only the letters I should know.
I think I’m off to a great start by learning how to read Thai and eventually speak it.
igrabjelly is sorting out her life.
i try my best to speak thai to my mom but i know i have such a long way to go. I can only understand basic thai and when i try to reply i totally suck. :( anyway, its best to learn your mother tongue so you have an advantage.
mulysamaybe wonders if she is human or dancer...or what that even means.
I know it seems like I have given up on learning Thai. I mean, what else could you think of a person who hasn’t listened to her Thai language CD’s in well over a year. Anyway, I have decided to start all over again beginning with Lesson One. I am now only driving my car twice a week, but it’s a long enough drive for me to just finish a lesson. Thus far, I am on Lesson Four and am moving through the lessons slowly and repeating them as necessary. I’m actually finding that I really understand the speakers during the conversations at the beginning.
PS-The subject says “I understand Thai a little, but not so very well”.
reddropdrop is having tea.
Since I’m half Thai…I need to learn the language already! =P