Learn Thai by lern-thai.com
Who really wants to learn Thai should early choose the right training materials.
My personal expiriences shows that this is often one of the biggest problems.
Which excercisebook teaches me important basics and how to start.
For more informations about our language courses.
To the beginning it’s significant to inform about the language.
What is the main difference between Thai and an another European language.
Thai is a phonetic syllables language.
The tones are playing an important role. If the syllable sound changes arises a different word.
The Thai language consists of 44 consonants of three seperate consonant clusters
(middle, high and deep). The deep group is further subdivided.
Furthermore, there are 32 vowels are devided into simple vowels, complex vowels and similar consonants vowels.
Every vowel have a short and long partner vowel.
In addition, the tone marks, auxiliary signs and numbers.
The sentence structure and grammar following a simple syntay (Subject-Verb-Object).
Die time levels of the past, present and future are indicated by signal words and temporal adverbs.
There are no articles and the infinitiv verb won’t declined, wheter singular or plural in action.
The main problems arises in the course of the tone rules, which requires a safe handling of the consonants and vowels.
Is decisive here is from which consonant cluster the first consonant of the syllable originates
if there is a tone mark in use or how the syllable ends .
Who wants to learn to read and write Thai is confronted with the problem to learn around 100 characters.
Why not just learn Thai with an english transcribtion?
Learn to speak Thai with a Germanic transcribtion?
The English language consists of 21 consonants and 5 vowels.
In addition, the special signs and punctuation marks.
In summary there are a number of around 35 characters which can be transcribed
to reflect the Thai language. Characters will be modified imaginative that it’s possible
e.g. to write the different 5 "K-characters". You learn characters which aren’t exist,
because there are no uniform transcription of the Thai language in use.
Apart from the tone pitches (middel, high, falling, deep and rising) results an unexpected number of Spellings,
which only conditionally can be represent the English language.
An indepent learning and the obtain of writting is not possible.
Conclusion:
Whoever wants to learn Thai properly will not get pass the Thai characters.
Without a doubt it’s easier for the start to learn a transcription but soon you’ll notice as more lexis you
get a linguistic distinction isn’t longer possible.
The word can only be analyzed through the Scriptures.
I have complied on the following pages the most important topics of the Thai language.
Once you are fimilar with the signs and characters you should join a language courses.
There you will learn the correct use of the language, an introduction in grammar and sentence structure.
Otherwise you’ll find everything you need for a good start on our website.
