Introduction - What you need to know to determine tones?

Introduction - What you need to know to determine tones?

In this video, you will learn the steps required to determine and read words/syllables with correct tones.

Prerequisites:

Remember the 5 tones and match the sound
Know the rule of reading without tone marks
Know the rule of reading with tone marks

Make sure to download the cheatsheet from the "Materials to download / How to use this course" section.

Practical Thai reading - Everything you need to know to read Thai (Beginner - Advanced)

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Materials to download / How to use this course

How to take this course

Thai vowels PDF

Cheatsheet: Tone rules and consonants PDF

Cheatsheet: how vowels can change their shape (PDF)

Clusters PDF

Module 1 - High, Middle, Low: The Thai Consonant Story

1️⃣ Lesson 1 - Middle class consonants + 8 vowels9

◼️ Reading Reference - 1

❓Quiz: Middle class consonants

❓Quiz: Long or Short Vowel (I)

◼️ Reading Practice - 1

2️⃣ Lesson 2 - Low class consonants + 8 vowels6

◼️ Reading Reference - 2

❓Quiz: Low class consonant

❓Quiz: Long or Short Vowel (II)

◼️ Reading practice - 2

3️⃣ Lesson 3 - High class consonants + 8 vowels12

◼️ Reading Reference - 3

❓Quiz: High class consonants

❓Quiz: Long or Short Vowel (III)

◼️ Reading practice - 3

4️⃣ Lesson 4 - The rest of the low class consonants + the last 4 vowels

◼️ Reading reference - 4

❓Quiz: Low class consonant (II)

◼️ Reading practice - 4

5️⃣ Lesson 5 - Final ending consonants sounds + stop and draggable sounds

◼️ Reading Reference - 5

◼️ Reading Practice - 5

6️⃣ Lesson 6 - What happens if a word ends in "s,l,k..." sounds?

◼️ Reading reference - 6

Module 1 Summary

Practice reading though stories

Module 2 - All About Tones!

Introduction - What you need to know to determine tones?

1️⃣ Lesson 1 - Every Syllable in Thai can have it's own tone!3

2️⃣ Lesson 2 - Learn to pronounce the 5 Thai Tones!3

◼️ Practice - Imitate my tones!1

◼️ Practice - Choose the correct tone2

◼️ Practice - determine the tones (All 5 tones)7

3️⃣ Lesson 3 - What are the Thai tone marks called?

4️⃣ Lesson 4 - Learn to read words with tone marks10

◼️ Practice - Reading words with tone marks

5️⃣ Lesson 5 - Draggable vs stop sounds

◼️ Practice: Stop sound or Draggable sound

❓Quiz: stop/ or draggable sound?

Stop and Draggable Review sound + Quiz explained

6️⃣ Lesson 6 - Learn to read words without tone marks!2

◼️ Practice - Reading words without tone marks!

◼️ Practice - More on reading words without tone marks2

Read real sentences + Practice everything you learned so far!9

Module 3 - Fill in all the gaps!

About module 3 ⭐

Vowels that change the way they look4

Cheat sheet: Vowels that change the way the look

Structure of Thai language (no spaces, vowel blocks)3

อ as a tone changer (อยาก, อย่า, อย่าง, อยู่)

ห as a tone changer (i.e., หรู)

True clusters (i.e., กล, คว, ขร)1

The "N" final consonant sound

The "G" final consonant sound

The "D" final consonant sound

The "B" final consonant sound

Summary of the possible final consonant sounds

False clusters (สร, ศร -> ส)

Non-clusterable consonants (i.e., สม-, ฉล-,...)3

Consonant + ร = อน sound (i.e., กร = กอน)

Linking syllables in Thai

รร become a vowel (กรร = กัน)2

Which one to use ไ or ใ2

Some Thai words can be read multiple ways!

Sometimes the vowel duration changes

The different symbols in Thai writing

Rare letters in Thai

Irregular words in Thai

Learn the Thai numbers

All the sentences in different fonts (compilation)

I finished the course, where to go from here?

What to do next / Resources11

Practice reading with Thai reader (Beginner - Advanced)