2007-11-09 05:10:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Yeah. Good for you. But you'll need to express yourself better in English in order to be able to say something in Thai.
I can give you some sites to get you started:
http://www.tu.ac.th/host/thaiarc/thai/introth.htm
http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/
http://www.learningthai.com/
http://www.phrasebase.com/
http://langhub.com/
http://www.franco-thai.com/lexique_1.php
http://www.thai-language.com/
http://www.kisa.ca/thai/
http://www.learn-thai-podcast.com/
2007-11-09 08:31:44 · answer #1 · answered by kamelåså 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It depends on where you are located. If you're a foreigner who is in Thailand, it would be easier as you can ask any Thai person on how to speak and pronounce Thai words correclty, plus you can readily practice basic conversations in Thai with real Thai people. In this way, you can build-up and expand your vocabulary faster. But If you're located outside Thailand, then it would not be as easy. Remember that Thai language is a tonal language, and the easiest way to get used to the tones is by listening how Thai people speak to each other in daily conversations.
The first thing that you should also consider is what you specifically want to learn. Do you want to learn speaking and conversing in Thai?. Or would you want to go further to be able to read and write Thai sentences in Thai scripts (Thai alphabet)?.
The first step would be learning by listening and speaking Thai words and sentences. You never need to know how to read and write in Thai to be able to do this. There are also widely available cassette tapes that you can play and listen repeatedly. You can purchase them online or buy them in book-stores near your location.
Reading and writing in Thai scripts is much more complicated, and requires that you are already well-acquainted with speaking and listening in Thai. You need to learn the Thai alphabet, rules on tone marks, grammatical structure of written Thai sentences. You need to devote a lot of time and you need to have many resources (mostly books) and lots of practice to do this. It is a lot more similar to a first-grade kid learning to read and write for the first time at school.
The web-link below is your first step in learning Thai.
I also have some collection of Thai language cassette-tapes that teaches basic listening, speaking, and conversation in Thai. I had re-encoded these cassette-tapes into "mp3" audio format so that I can save the files and play them on my computer. I could share them with you if you wish. Just click on my avatar and send me an e-mail. Just put your e-mail address in your message, so that I can reply to you. Then I can include the mp3 files as attachments to my reply message.
2007-11-10 06:01:01 · answer #2 · answered by Botsakis G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thai boxing..thai cuisine???
2007-11-09 05:13:04 · answer #3 · answered by The Wižard 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
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2007-11-09 05:12:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
and?
2007-11-09 05:24:02 · answer #5 · answered by Lil 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋