Journey 1 – Everyday Thai for everyday life
The essential tools you need to develop your understanding of basic Thai and survive in Thailand
Survival Thai I
- Thai sound system and numbers
- Self-introduction, greetings and goodbyes
- Getting a taxi
- Buying street food
- Asking for directions
Survival Thai II
- Using public transports
- Ordering food at a restaurant
- Buying and describing clothes
- Telling time
- Renting a room
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Journey 2 – Everyday Thai for everyday life
The essential tools you need to develop your understanding of basic Thai and survive in Thailand
Survival Thai III
- Using services at convenience stores
- Buying medicine and describing symptoms
- Solving communication breakdowns
- Talking about personal life
- Having a casual chat in Thai
Thai Grammar I
- Frequency, quantity and number
- Describing things and expressing degrees
- Similarities, differences and comparison
- The concept of Thai “tenses”
- People’s appearance and personality
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Journey 3 – Everyday Thai for everyday life
The essential tools you need to develop your understanding of basic Thai and survive in Thailand
Thai Grammar II
- Movements, directions and changes
- Perceptions, emotions and feelings
- Talking about skills and abilities
- Instruction, sequences and purposes
- Making requests and commands
Thai Grammar III
- Suggestions and opinions
- Causes and effects
- Guessing and probability
- Expressing likes and dislikes
- Talking about future plans and hopes
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Explore 1 – Thai script made easy
Learn all the Thai characters in an effective way and unlock the code of Thai script in just a month
- Thai consonant and vowel characters
- Consonant classes
- The concept of live-dead syllables
- The basics of tone rules
- Tone marks
- Vowels that have two forms
- How the silent “H” promotes class
Explore 2 – Understanding the writing system
The fundamental rules that govern the writing system and all the tricks you need to read and write Thai accurately
- How to shorten long vowels
- Consonant clusters
- Reading words with no written vowels
- Silent mark and silent syllables
- Different ways to pronounce “R”
- Special characters and important symbols
- Thai numerals
- Learning to read in different font types
- Reviews of the writing system rules
Explore 3 – Natural Thai in cultural context
Discussion-based course about different aspects of Thai culture to help you speak Thai in a natural way with confidence
- Extended family and kinship terms
- Social status and its impact on Thai pronouns
- Understanding “face” and “greeng jai”
- Regions of Thai and Thai dialects
- Thai food and table etiquette
- Buddhism in Thailand
- Ghosts, spirits, and superstitions
- Thai ceremonies and rituals
- Thai festivals and national holidays
- Thai entertainment, arts, and pop culture
- Formal Thai in formal situations
- Understanding “sabaai-sabaai” attitude
- Thai slangs, idioms, and proverbs
- Thai pride, and an introduction to Thai history
- Cross-cultural topics and discussions
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Connect 1 – Improve all 4 communicative skills
Taking the next step towards fluency by fine-tuning your listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Learn vocabulary and word spelling through short stories adapted from DLS comics
- Review previously learned grammatical rules and word usage
- Attune one’s ears to natural spoken Thai through watching videos
- Speak and maintain conversation in Thai via class discussion format
- Read and understand Thai written materials of different styles
- Practice writing in Thai on topics given by the teacher
Click here for a sample of the textbook.
Connect 2 – Improve all 4 communicative skills
Taking the next step towards fluency by fine-tuning your listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Learn vocabulary and word spelling through short stories adapted from DLS comics
- Review previously learned grammatical rules and word usage
- Attune one’s ears to natural spoken Thai through watching videos
- Speak and maintain conversation in Thai via class discussion format
- Read and understand Thai written materials of different styles
- Practice writing in Thai on topics given by the teacher
Click here for a sample of the textbook.
Connect 3 – Improve all 4 communicative skills
Taking the next step towards fluency by fine-tuning your listening, speaking, reading and writing
- Learn vocabulary and word spelling through short stories adapted from DLS comics
- Review previously learned grammatical rules and word usage
- Attune one’s ears to natural spoken Thai through watching videos
- Speak and maintain conversation in Thai via class discussion format
- Read and understand Thai written materials of different styles
- Practice writing in Thai on topics given by the teacher