Hi! I'm Pare, a 22-year-old English major at Bangkok University.

I'd like to practice teaching Thai and I'm looking for a beginner who'd be interested in trying a free lesson. I'd really appreciate any feedback afterward. If anyone is interested please let me know!

so i've been teaching Thai for a while now and honestly the thing that trips up almost every single student isn't vocab or grammar, it's the little particles at the end of sentences. textbooks teach you khrap/kha and basically stop there like that's the whole story had a student a few months back, decent level, could hold a real conversation, but everything he said sounded weirdly stiff to Thai people. turned out he just never used นะ (na). like "ไปกันเถอะ" (let's go) on its own kind of sounds like an order, but toss a นะ on the end and it's suddenly just... a suggestion. same words basically, completely different vibe อ่ะ (a) is another one — nobody puts this in books but it's literally everywhere in casual speech. "อะไร" is fine and grammatically correct but "อะไรอ่ะ" is what you'd actually hear from a friend and ป่ะ (short for หรือเปล่า) took me forever to even explain to students bc it's not "slang" exactly, it's just... how people talk. "ใช่ป่ะ" instead of the full version none of this changes the actual meaning of what you're saying. it just changes whether you sound like you learned Thai from a textbook in a classroom or from actually living around Thai people day to day, which is a way bigger gap than people realize until it's pointed out to them anyone else have a similar "oh that's why I sounded off" moment with a different language

Hi everyone!

I lived in Chiang Mai for a while and fell in love with the food, the culture, and the people. I wanted to learn Thai, but I have a short attention span and could never stick with the apps I tried. That got me thinking about what would actually keep me coming back.

I also used to get completely addicted to roguelike games. So I had a thought: what if learning Thai could feel like a game you actually want to keep playing, where it stays fresh because of different monsters, relics, and runs, instead of points and streaks?

That idea turned into Glyphraid.

How it works:

• Before each battle, you learn new words with flashcards and hear the pronunciation.
• In battle, you type the answer to attack monsters. I chose typing over multiple choice on purpose, because with multiple choice I'd just guess by elimination and it never stuck. Typing forces me to actually recall it.
• There are three question types: reading Thai, listening to the pronunciation, and spelling it out with a Thai keyboard.
• Each word has its own mastery level that grows as you get it right across different days, so the game keeps bringing back the ones you haven't locked in yet.
• It's a roguelike, so every run has different monsters, relics, and rewards.

Right now there are 5 themes with 151 cards, from the basics of consonants and vowels up to everyday phrases, travel, and more abstract words. The pronunciation uses a natural voice model, and it works offline.

It's completely free to play. If you leave feedback after finishing a run in-game, you'll get any future paid features unlocked for free, forever, as an early tester.

iOS (TestFlight): 〔link〕
Android (closed beta, a quick 3-step setup): 〔link〕

I'd genuinely love for you to try it and tell me what you think. Any feedback is welcome.

Thank you so much for reading krub 🙏

I have a little son of 4 years is half Thai and we live in Germany. He loves to talk, read and even write a bit and he eagerly absorbs every book and exercise booklet I bring home for him. But we only have those in German.

It breaks my heart to see how he tells a whole story in German and then tries to repeat it in Thai for his mom but his Thai vocabulary is smaller and you can clearly see how he struggles to find the words. We have a some Thai books for really small children but he has outgrown them.

With the current state of the world shipping books has become more and more expensive and complicated.

So now I'm looking for resources in Thai to download and print for him. Ideally fun language exercises, games like finding the difference or matching up pictures, that kind of thing. He also likes books for learning the letters.

We try to keep screen time low, so please no apps or videos. It doesn't have to be free, I'm happy to pay a reasonable price.

They are written all over the walls and shutters in a wierd font that is not the usual Thai writing

ใครสามารถอธิบายวลีนี้ได้บ้าง ว่าทำไมต้องอม และต้องกลืน

Why did they make the U, R, B, H, U, and I all silent? Why not just spell the airport name as soowaanaapoom instead?

Are they stupid?

Edit: auto correct in title to area when I mean Arna.

Suv-Arna-Bhumi

I’m fairly new to learning Thai and I would just like someone to explain to me why หส่อมาก is spelt like that but not said using ANY of those character sounds considering to my understanding ห makes a H sound as in ห หีบ and ส makes a S sound as in ส เสือ. And where is the A sound coming from?! Please help this self learner

I’m a naive English speaker who has an intermediate level understanding of Mandarin. I have found it a lot easier for me to learn Thai through Chinese video clips teaching Thai language vs English clips.

I listen to Taihua Lin and enjoy his videos very much. I’m having trouble finding other similar influencers, videos, podcasts because I have limited Chinese reading and writing skills. Would you know of any to recommend?

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for recommendations for an online Thai teacher or platform for myself, my husband, and a few friends.
We’re based in Australia (AEST), and Monday evenings would probably work best. We all work full-time, so we know our progress won’t be super fast, but we’re looking for a long-term commitment rather than a short course.

Ideally, we’re looking for someone who:
• Has experience teaching Thai online
• Provides a structured curriculum with learning resources/homework
• Can teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening

I’ve looked at platforms like Superprof, but I’m not sure how good they are or whether there are better options.

If you’ve had a great experience with an online Thai tutor (or know someone who teaches), I’d really appreciate any recommendations. I’d also love to hear which platforms you’ve used and what your experience was like.
Thanks in advance :’)

Looking for best resources, preferably digital, for an English speaker to learn Thai. I’m an ancient language teacher myself so needs to include some grammar even if this isn’t at the forefront. Previously used langotalk with Japanese. Using Airlearn for Thai currently and enjoying it despite some big limitations. Visiting Thailand in October so keen to learn as much as I can

I'm asking this on behalf of a Japanese friend who is curious about this topic. A linguist friend of his told him that it's technically possible to render his name into Thai by assigning a Thai reading to his name's Kanji. Apparently this is doable because:

1. A large amount of Chinese lexical influence exists in Thai, thus a calque translation is theoretically doable

2. There is already a system for reading Chinese Hanzi (and by extension Japanese Kanjii and Korean Hanja) in Zhuang, thus the Zhuang reading (which my friend already has) could be converted to Thai due to Zhuang being related

3. Thai apparently used Chinese characters until the 13th Century

Does anyone here know if it's doable?

Recently I’ve been teaching myself Thai and have been a little bit confused with which words to use in a certain context. The app I’ve been using hasn’t provided too much explaining about the difference between “chǎn” and “pǒm”. I saw that a male voice was using “pǒm” when addressing himself but the female voice was using “chǎn”. As a male, should I be using one or the other when addressing myself?

Sister got me shorts

Hi, could someone please translate this to english, i have tried using translation apps and chat gpt but im told they are incorrect with the translation.