Learn To Read Thai & Impress Your Friends!

Name: Learn To Read Thai & Impress Your Friends!
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Learn to read Thai and finally understand what you've been doing wrong all the time!

Created byJan Baars

Last updated 12/2019

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What you'll learn

read 99% of all Thai words with amazing accuracy
speak Thai much clearer than before
read all menu's and street signs in Thailand
impress your Thai friends with your Thai writing

Course content

10 sections • 38 lectures • 1h 34m total length

Introduction6:32
Everything we'll cover in this course in a nutshell.
Resources0:05
A bunch of places on the web that will help you on your journey to fluency.

The Big Picture6:17
Some people like to learn the details first, other like to understand the big picture before getting into detail.
Mid-Class Consonants3:20
The 9 Mid-Class Consonants
Mid-Class Consonants
4 Long Vowels2:40
Every language has vowels. But Thai has some very special vowels! Long Vowels and Short Vowels for example!

Now that you now some Consonants, I'll teach you 4 vowels first so that you can start using the language Right Away! Come on! Let's read some words!
Placeholder - The Weirdest Letter In Thai.1:45
This is definitely the weirdest letter in Thai. Is it really a letter?
Reading Exercises Mid-Class Consonants with อา อี เอ อู0:17
Now You Try! You Can Already Write Thai!2:31
Problems hearing the difference?0:07

Mid-Class Consonant & Tone Markers3:49
The most dreaded part about learning Thai. Those Tones!!

But hey! They're really not that hard! And don't come with that stupid excuse "I'm tone deaf". You are not and neither is anybody. Let's learn about the wonders of this musical language!
Reading Exercises Mid-Class Consonants with อา อี เอ อู + tone markers0:08
This Will Contain Everything You Need To Know0:09
In this lesson you'll find a sheet that will be very important to your study process.
Although it's empty now, it'll contain almost all information you need to be able to read Thai perfectly at the end of this course.

The First & Second Question0:46
Live and Dead Syllables3:10
How life and death are a part of this language!
4 Short Vowels1:09
Now that you learned 4 long vowels, we should balance things out a bit and learn some short vowels, don't you think?
More Examples of Live & Dead Syllables1:13
Let's practice a bit!
Live & Dead
All The Tone Rules for Mid & High-Class Consonants0:24
Let's put all that valuable knowledge together and finish those tone rules. We're getting there!

Low-Class Consonants ค-ง2:33
Water Buffalo's and Snakes! Some dangerous animals in this lesson!
Low-Class Consonants ช-ณ2:13
An elephant and a girl in this lesson.
Low Class Consonants ท-ฟ1:51
Of mice and men.
Low-Class Consonants ภ-ฮ2:43
Horses and Giants
Low-Class Tone Rules3:58
Silent ห4:30
How to make syllables starting with a low class consonant into rising tones and low tones.

Final Consonants9:54
Consonants Clusters3:17
Why you can't say pzrewalski horse.
What If A Cluster Can't Be Pronounced?3:28
No Vowel?!0:47
I know, I know, I said every syllable contains at least 1 vowel, but... don't worry.. I'll explain.
The Killer1:08
So Many R's1:28
4 Words Starting With A Silent อ5:55
Just 4 words starting with a silent อ.
Just little examples, but they're very common and important words. So check this out.

Requirements

You don't have to know any Thai before starting this course.
When you already know some Thai you'll be in for a lot of exciting aha-moments. The written language will stitch all your knowledge together.

Description

What if I told you you can learn to read Thai within 2 weeks?

Nobody likes to believe me when I tell them they can actually learn to make sense out of all those weird little symbols, but it's easier than you might think! Learning to Read Thai will improve your other language skills tremendously. I've never met anybody who learned to speaks Thai fluently without learning to read first. And everybody who did learn to read told me they wished they'd done it much earlier.

Never order food without knowing what you're gonna get anymore
Finally understand Instagram posts of your friends
Never get lost because the street signs are in Thai only
Impress your friends and write down their order in Thai in a local restaurant
Finally understand what you've been doing wrong all the time when speaking Thai

All of the sudden the tonal part of the language will make sense. And after learning to read it'll be much easier to remember the tone of a word. Better yet, by just asking a Thai friend how a word is spelled you will be able to know with a 100% certainty how to pronounce that word, and you'll never have to guess the tone anymore.

Who this course is for:

This course is for anyone who wants to learn just a little bit more than "hello, how are you?" in Thai.
This course is also for anyone who's having trouble with their pronunciation in Thai.

Learn To Read Thai & Impress Your Friends!

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Introduction2 lectures • 7min

Mid-Class Consonants7 lectures • 17min

Tone Markers3 lectures • 4min

High-Class Consonants3 lectures • 5min

A Matter of Life and Death5 lectures • 7min

Low-Class Consonants6 lectures • 18min

All Vowels3 lectures • 3min

All The Other Stuff That Didn't Fit In Any Other Section7 lectures • 26min

Pronunciation1 lecture • 7min

Conclussion1 lecture • 1min

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