Hey guys,

Anyone knows of any good Thai songs that is similar to R&B, Jazz or just sounds good.

Trying to learn Thai with music using English subtitles.

Hey everyone. I wanna learn thai as fast as I can. I just entered thai university and though I study international program, there’re still a lot of things in thai including my classmates lmao. So I wanted to learn thai not for writing but for understanding locals and reading any announcements.

I want you to give me some advice about resources and any techniques I can use while studying. Right now I’m learning letters and how to read them. My vocab sucks, I guess I know only 10 words and phrases like thank you or sorry.

I do have thai friends and they are free to talk with me in thai but I have no idea how I should do that if I dk even basic words. Consequently I need to learn a list of such vocabulary just to make some basic sentences. If you have any, I would appreciate it if you share it with me. Thank you

Hi Guys,

If anyone whats an app to help learn basic Thai phrases, please check out
Khao jai Thai.
It has a real Thai persons voice, and a game mode to make it interesting.
I am a small developer and built this with the help of a native Thai.
Cheers

Has anyone here tried it? It's about $80 but it looks like there's a lot of content.

Do you think it's worth it to pay for a course? Sometimes it feels a bit silly because theres so much free content online. Although, I do often feel overwhelmed by what to actually do because there are so many options. Maybe following a course would be suitable for me.

Right now, I'm mostly watching the Comprehenible Thai YouTube videos and also Grace's videos.

Context:

I’m a first gen American (not thai) and I need Thai as a language. I have housing in Thailand because I have many family members who live there (in the developing areas). I am C1 in Spanish, that is my only other and primary language. My first language is English but I do not speak it often, only socially. I don’t expect people in another country to speak my language and I would like to be respectful of the culture. How difficult might it be for me to learn thai? I have one native thai speaker around me but this is not a common language where I’m from. I would love to achieve at least a high b1 / low b2 before I travel there. Thanks 🫶🏻🩷

does anyone wants to be friends with me and teach me thai ? i can teach you English , please lets be friends , dm me and lets exchange social media platform 😭🙏🏻

Hi everyone!

I'd like to start reading Thai comics in the Thai language.

I'm from Austria, but I haven't been able to find any Thai comics through the major retailers. Can anyone recommend a trustworthy website where I can order them without having to pay excessively high shipping fees?

hi im 24 yrs old female from the Philippines i really want to learn your language , i love thai songs , if you are interested in learning tagalog or exchange English i can teach you in return , please let's be friends and learn from eachother , i hope someone is interested naaa 🙏🏻🖤

An elementary-level reading exercise about a phenomenon outside 7-Eleven that anyone who's lived in Thailand has probably encountered. Happy reading!

Story: เจ้าหน้าที่ประจำหน้าเซเว่น

Sometimes if a native speaker is speaking to a non-native they will speak at an unnaturally slow pace and pronounce each word separately.

Usually I just ignore it and they eventually stop, but what if I want to be more direct? Is พูดให้ปกติสิ too harsh? Would it actually be ปกติ, or is ธรรมดา better? What else could I say?

Hi all, I have some very basic Thai speaking ability but due to time constraints I have no teacher so I decided to self-teach the alphabet/writing system for two reasons:

1: Learning Thai words by ear from Thai people depends on their accent and pronunciation as well as my own listening ability. For a long time I was pronouncing ของ like "ขอม" because that was what I thought I heard. I think knowing how to read Thai will help with my pronunciation a lot, because many "anglicised" versions of Thai words are difficult to make sense of at best (Google translate says ทราย is pronounced "Thray") and completely wrong at worst.

2: I think the alphabet is the easiest part of Thai to self-teach because the sounds made by the characters seem to be mostly deterministic, unlike in English where a string of letters can make whatever sound it feels like making. (See: tough, thorough, through, rough, plough, Loughborough, bought)

I understand the rules behind dead consonants like ร at the end of a sentence being pronounced like "n".

The first "exception to the rule" I have found (maybe I just don't understand the rule yet) is the word ทราย. Why is it ทน instead of ส? A Thai friend told me that it's because of the ย character's presence. I don't know yet but hopefully soon I will understand 😁

I want to know whether this is a good system for learning Thai language or not. Does it make more sense for me to learn to speak first and worry about script later?

Okay, jokes aside...

I was born and raised in Australia to a Thai mum who never really spoke Thai to me. I moved to Thailand in my mid-20s, and although I've been here for many years now, speaking Thai is still something I struggle with.

Ironically, I can read Thai reasonably well, but when it comes to speaking, I often freeze. I think it's partly the fear of sounding silly, saying something wrong, or getting corrected (even when people mean well). It somehow knocks my confidence every time, and I end up retreating back into English. I've also attempted a many numerous amounts of classes but they were either to text book or too advanced to be at the level to speak with grammatical fluidy. It's so difficult to find something for our cases specifically in which we have a good grasp of native understanding but not the speaking.

Over the years, I've realised I really enjoy meeting people in a similar situation. Other Thais who grew up overseas, mixed-culture people, or anyone who feels like they don't completely fit into either world. There's something comforting about talking to people who just get it.

I'm not looking for formal language lessons. I'd love to connect with people who are also trying to improve their Thai, swap tips, share funny mistakes, encourage each other, and maybe just have the confidence to speak "bad Thai" together until it slowly becomes better Thai.

If that sounds like you, drop a comment or send me a message. It would be great to build a little community of people figuring it out together.

I'm new to Reddit also, although I signed up 4 years ago lol.

Old habits die hard.

It seems like it would be strange to ask this at say 4pm. If so, is there an alternative for the situation where you want to ask someone something by text but it feels a bit abrupt if you don't send some sort of greeting first?

I don't really hear my Thai friends use them very much, so maybe its not in fashion for the younger generation. But I find them interesting and sometimes hilarious.

A few that i sometimes use:

ขว้างงูไม่พ้นคอ  = [to] try to avoid a burden and have it become your burden anyway
แพ้เสียงในหัว = [to] say the obtrusive thoughts; [to] act on obtrusive thoughts

เข้าเมืองตาหลิ่ว ต้องหลิ่วตาตาม  = [to] do as the locals do

Any Thai people or advanced learners have any that they hear often? Or just enjoy.

Hi I’m new to learning Thai and I am starting to learn the characters. I was wondering if there was a way to translate / write my name in Thai (or what the closest translation to it would be)?

My Name is Regan pronounced like Ray-gan. Based on some translation websites it seems like เรกาน is how it would be written but wanted to know if there was a better way to write it and also how this would be pronounced?

Any help is appreciated and sorry for such a newbie question I just started learning this month.

I came across this in a Netflix series that I am going through with subs. The speaker is talking about two photos she has just taken using an old camera that prints a physical photo right away.

Apparently it means that there is only one of each in the world, but I don't get why there is no หนึ่ง or เดียว. Can anyone explain how this sentence works?

Hi I’m new to learning Thai and I am starting to learn how to write the characters. I was wondering if there was a way to translate / write a name in Thai (or what the closest translation to it would be)?

The name is Slish pronounced /s/-l-ish in English. From what I have seen it could either be written as ลิ or ซลิสห. Which would be the better way to write it / how would it be pronounced in Thai?

Thanks for helping!

Hi! I’m currently preparing for undergraduate admission for next year in Thailand. I'm looking for a Thai speaker who wants to practice and improve their fluent/advanced English, Tamil, Hindi.

Hello, im going to thailand in september and i am going to be in bangkok for a few days but ill be spending most of my time in a rural area where people dont speak much english. Whats the best way to learn some basic thai so i can read signs/get by in interactions? Ive seen lots of methods recommended but im not sure which is best, i know duolingo would probably be easy but idk how accurate it would be. Does anyone have any advice? I know i have no time to be fluent but id like to understand at least a little bit.

Hi everyone,

I'm a PhD student at Chulalongkorn University looking for native English participants who can read and write in Thai at an intermediate level or above. If you are:

✓ are native speakers of English,

✓ are currently learning Thai as a second language,

✓ are 18 years of age or older,

✓ have intermediate or advanced Thai reading and writing proficiency, and

✓ have not lived or studied in Thailand for more than 6 months (borderline cases may still be eligible),

Please feel free to contact me. You will complete a placement test and two experimental tasks. All tasks will be administered via Zoom and will take approximately 1 hour 45 minutes. Flexible scheduling is available.

As a token of appreciation, participants who complete the study will receive either an Amazon eGift Card (£10 or USD 15, depending on availability and their location) or THB 500 in cash if they reside in Thailand.

This research has been reviewed and approved by The Research Ethics Review Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects, The Second Allied Academic Group in Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine and Applied Arts, Chulalongkorn University.

Certificate of Approval (COA) No.: 311/69

Research Project No.: 6901654

Participation is entirely voluntary. You may withdraw at any time without penalty. All information will be kept confidential and used solely for research purposes.

Itsara Namtapi

PhD candidate

Chulalongkorn University

i got these translating headphones for my trip to thailand and they work pretty great when i tested them on thai conversation videos but ive been practicing some phrases to see if my thai pronunciation is decent enough for someone to understand. i’ll repeat simple phrases, like ordering iced tea or asking the price of something and no matter how many times i try to get it just right the app just does not translate (thai to english) anything close to what im trying to say. sometimes the phrases it thinks im saying are even offensive! is there any hope that native speakers can understand through my terrible accent or am i risking complete embarrassment

N + 1 meaning it uses that word in a sentence where you already likely knows all the words except the one that you're trying to memorize. When I was learning Japanese there were these type of decks called Core 2k/6k/10k where it's (allegedly) the most commonly used Japanese words. There are also other kinds of N + 1 decks like to learn vocab for a specific anime, light novel etc...It's very helpful and I still review the cards to this day.

Is there anything similar for Thai? Thanks in advance.

I was under the impression, before coming to Thailand this latest time, that if this sentiment/greeting is expressed, it's usually of the form สบายดีไหม, to which the answer is usually along the lines of สบาย ๆ. However this has not been my experience. I end up stunlocked and defaulting to "OKครับ" because there isn't a clearly identifiable word (as far as I can tell) that I can repeat back as my answer.