learn thai

I am in a class which I go to every week, I also like to practice with taxi drivers.

Anki is great for practicing.

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 I found a temple about 30 miles away, whose website is outdated and e-mail address doesn’t work.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!

One of my best moves is to watch those Thai dramas with my mom again.

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???

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.

รุ่งนภา

means sky of dawn

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.

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”.

Since I’m half Thai…I need to learn the language already! =P