Learn Thai from Zero (Complete Beginner - Conversational)
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How the course is structured + Where to start
How to progress through this course?
How to practice your pronunciation
Quick notes about transliteration
How many minutes per day should you study and how you should study?
Basics to know before the course starts

Basics 1 - Polite particles
Basics 2 - Greetings, excuse me, sorry
Basics 3 - Pronouns
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A0 - Complete Beginner

◼️ Lesson 1 - My name is Grace. I am Thai. What is your nationality? I am not Thai.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 1)
QUIZ 1: Answers and Explanations
◻ 1.1 - My name is...
☐ 1.2 - What's your name?
☐ 1.3 - I am Thai.
☐ 1.4 - What is your nationality?
☐ 1.5 - Different nationalities
◼️ Lesson 2 - What language do you speak? How do you say this in Thai? What language do you like?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 2)
QUIZ 2: Answers and Explanations
☐ 2.1 - To be, is, am, are
☐ 2.2 - I am, I'm not
☐ 2.3 - What is that? What is this?
☐ 2.4 - What language do I speak?
☐ 2.5 - Basic expressions
◼️ Lesson 3: Do you like Thai people? I don't like to eat cheese so I don't eat pizza. Oh, you are American?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 3)
QUIZ 3: Answers and Explanations
☐ 3.1 - I like...
◼️ Lesson 4: What food do you like to eat? What about you? I want to speak Thai but...
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 4)
QUIZ 4: Answers and Explanations
☐ 4.1 - To like
☐ 4.2 - What?
☐ 4.3 - What is your nationality (version 2)
☐ 4.4 - And what about...
◼️ Lesson 5 - I can speak Thai because I'm Thai. I can't speak Russian. Oh, you don't speak Thai well?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 5)
QUIZ 5: Answers and Explanations
☐ 5.1 Nationalities, Food, Languages
A0 - Numbers

◼️ Lesson 6 - Numbers: 1-10 (Repeat after me)
◼️ Lesson 7 - Numbers: 0-10
◼️ Lesson 8 - Numbers: 20,30,40...
◼️ Lesson 9 - Numbers: How much?
◼️ Lesson 10 - Numbers: 100, 1000, 10000...
A0 - Master the Question words (Part 1)

What? ...Right? Oh yea? How? ...
A0 - Grace and Edgar's Story

🟦 Edgar's story
🟦 Grace asks Edgar about his story
🟦 Grace's story
🟦 Edgar asks Grace about her story
A1 - Beginner

◼️ Lesson 11 - I speak Thai with my parents. Do you know, my husband is American but my husband's parents are Colombian. We don't have kids yet.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 11)
QUIZ 11: Answers and Explanations
☐ 11.1 - What's up
☐ 11.2 - Belongs to...
☐ 11.3 - What language do you like?
◼️ Lesson 12 - He says that..., Edgar asks Grace..., He can't remember that..., He doesn't know that...
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 12)
QUIZ 12: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 13 - Is there a macbook in your house? iPhone is considered good. Is it delicious? Very delicious, Not delicious at all.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 13)
QUIZ 13: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 14 - Using older sibling, younger sibling to call people who are not your family
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 14)
QUIZ 14: Answers and Explanations
◻ 14.1 - Learn more about "khun"
◻ 14.2 - Older/Younger sibling
◼️ Lesson 15 - What language are you learning, Thai or English?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 15)
QUIZ 15: Answers and Explanations
☐ 15.1 - Or (Thai or English)
☐ 15.1 - Or (Basketball or football)
◼️ Lesson 16 - Why do you learn Thai? With whom do you want to learn Thai? I study Thai because I want to talk to Thai people.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 16)
QUIZ 16: Answers and Explanations
☐ 16.1 - Who is this?
☐ 16.2 - How do you say...in Thai?
◼️ Lesson 17 - Learning Thai is not fun at all but I want to talk with my wife so I study Thai. Netflix is fun so I watch. I have a lot of money.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 17)
QUIZ 17: Answers and Explanations
☐ 17.1 - I like to study Thai and Chinese with a teacher.
◼️ Lesson 18 - I don't speak Thai well but I want to teach Thai. I want to be a writer - what do I have to read?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 18)
QUIZ 18: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 19 - Russian is hard, German is also hard. Do you want to be an athlete? I also want to be an athlete.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 19)
QUIZ 19: Answers and Explanations
☐ 19.1 - What's his profession?
☐ 19.2 - What's my profession?
☐ 19.3 - I also...
☐ 19.4 - And what about you?
☐ 19.5 - My parents like...
☐ 19.6 - What about them?
◼️ Lesson 20 - Thailand is more beautiful than Vietnam, right? Chinese is the hardest language. I want to be a businessman but I don't know what I have to do.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 20)
QUIZ 20: Answers and Explanations
☐ 20.1 - You are Thai, right?
☐ 20.2 - To read
☐ 20.3 - More than...
☐ 20.4 - Who do you like more?
☐ 20.5 - Taxi is faster than motorcycle
☐ 20.6 - Malaysian food is the most delicious
◼️ Lesson 21 - I work as a teacher. I need to do homework everyday.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 21)
QUIZ 21: Answers and Explanations
☐ 21.1 - But
◼️ Lesson 22 - I want to eat everything THAT you want to eat
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 22)
QUIZ 22: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 23 - What should I do? If you want to do everything that you want to do, you must have money.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 23)
QUIZ 23: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 24 - Do you understand Thai? Oh, you're not going to work today? I have a Thai wife so I want to understand Thai. Whose house is this?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 24)
QUIZ 24: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 25 - Where do you want to go with who? Have you ever studied Thai? I still haven't gone to Thailand.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 25)
QUIZ 25: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 26 - I want to eat at the school's cafeteria. I lost my cellphone.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 26)
QUIZ 26: Answers and Explanations
☐ 26.1 - School, factory, hospital
◼️ Lesson 27 - Some people know Edgar already. Do you know - his parents are from where?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 27)
QUIZ 27: Answers and Explanations
☐ 27.1 - Right now, what language am I speaking?
◼️ Lesson 28 - Let's eat! We do everything together.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 28)
QUIZ 28: Answers and Explanations
☐ 28.1 - Travel, together
◼️ Lesson 29: Where does Grace live? Is London a big or small city? Where is the bathroom?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 29)
QUIZ 29: Answers and Explanations
☐ 29.1 - To live, to stay, to be located at
☐ 29.2 - Where?
☐ 29.3 - Because of what?
☐ 29.4 - Where is it? It's above, it's besides, it's inside.
☐ 29.5 - Where is it? It's between...
☐ 29.6 - Where is it? It's in front, it's behind...
◼️ Lesson 30 - Do you have an older brother? She enters the female bathroom.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 30)
QUIZ 30: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 31 - I pick up my child from school. Can you send John to school? I WILL be a teacher. Last year, I went to Thailand already.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 31)
QUIZ 31: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 32 - What do you usually eat at home? Have you ever eaten mango sticky rice? Do you want to buy a house in Thailand (or not)?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 32)
QUIZ 32: Answers and Explanations
☐ 32.1 - Turning statements into questions
☐ 32.2 - To have, to want to
☐ 32.3 - Why?
☐ 32.4 - To learn
☐ 32.5 - To have
☐ 32.7 - Will, tomorrow, with who?
◼️ Lesson 33 - The kids play with each other. I talk like my dad. I want as well. How did you meet your girlfriend?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 33)
QUIZ 33: Answers and Explanations
☐ 33.1 - Do you know...?
☐ 33.2 - Thailand is like Laos
☐ 33.3 - I also have an iPhone
A1 - Master the Question Words (Part 2)

The 4 "W": Why? Where? When? Who
A1 - Classifiers (counting things in Thai)

◼️ Lesson 34 - Counting with classifiers
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 34)
QUIZ 34: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 35 - Asking "how many?" with classifiers
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 35)
QUIZ 35: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 36 - Saying "every ..." using classifiers
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 36)
QUIZ 36: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 37 - Saying "some ..." using classifiers
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 37)
QUIZ 37: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 38 - Summarizing how to use classifiers
◼️ Lesson 39 - Classifier for animals, furniture, instruments
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 39)
QUIZ 39: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 40 - Classifiers for plates, glasses, bottles
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 40)
QUIZ 40: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 41 - Classifiers for houses, cars, condos
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 41)
QUIZ 41: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 42 - Classifiers for when there is no specific classifiers
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 42)
QUIZ 42: Answers and Explanations
A1 - How to ask for something and order food and drinks

◼️ Lesson 43 - How to order things using 'kor' and 'ao'
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 43)
QUIZ 43: Answers and Explanations
☐ 43.1 - May I get...
☐ 43.2 - Do you have?
☐ 43.3 - Are you hungry?
☐ 43.4 - What do you want to eat?
☐ 43.5 - May I have...please?
☐ 43.6 - I like to eat chicken pad thai.
☐ 43.7 - What's in the fridge?
☐ 43.8 - Excuse me, what's the menu?
☐ 43.9 - Thai people like to eat rice in Thailand.
☐ 43.10 - I like to eat with friends.
☐ 43.11 - How much?
A1 - Weeks, months, per

◼️ Lesson 44 - How to say "per" in Thai?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 44)
QUIZ 44: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 45 - One year has how many days?
◼️ Lesson 46 - Days of the week
☐ 46.1 - What does Edgar do on Monday, Tuesday,...
☐ 46.2 - Asking questions about what Edgar does Monday, Tuesday, etc...
◼️ Lesson 47 - Months in Thai
☐ 47.1 - What month was Grace born?
A1 - Pattaya Travel story

🟧 Pattaya travel story - I want to go to Pattaya with friends.
🟧 Pattaya travel story - Going to Pattaya with 2 friends.
🟧 Pattaya Travel Story - Do you wanna come with us?
🟧 Pattaya travel story - What is there in Pattaya?
🟧 Pattaya travel story - What else is there in Pattaya?
A1 - Telling time

◼️ Lesson 48 - Learn to tell the time in Thai
☐ 48.1 - 7:30, 8:30
☐ 48.2 - In the morning, in the afternoon
☐ 48.3 - What time to what time?
☐ 48.4 - What time is it?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 48)
QUIZ 48: Answers and Explanations
A1 - Master the Question words (Part 3)

Question words review + นะ (na)
A1 - Master the art of talking about yourself

Blueprint for Talking about Yourself
PDF - Blueprint
DOC - Blueprint
Nick's story
A2 - Upper Beginner

◼️ Lesson 49 - What are you doing? What are you watching? Who are you talking with?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 49)
QUIZ 49: Answers and Explanations
☐ 49.1 - To do, to cook, to work
☐ 49.2 - Oh, you don't like...?, really?
☐ 49.4 - What are you doing?
◼️ Lesson 50 - I give my boyfriend a computer. I cook for my kids everyday. I sold my house to my friend.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 50)
QUIZ 50: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 51 - I leave my house at 6 and then I eat breakfast and then I work.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 51)
QUIZ 51: Answers and Explanations
☐ 51.1 - and..and also
◼️ Lesson 52 - I drive my car to go to work. I ride a train. I ride my bike from Thailand to Mongolia.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 52)
QUIZ 52: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 53 - Riding a train is safer than riding a bus. Taking a plane to go to Chiang Mai is the fastest.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 53)
QUIZ 53: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 54 - What do you think about Thai politicians? I feel like he doesn't like me. Don't eat cake.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 54)
QUIZ 54: Answers and Explanations
☐ 54.1 - What do you think about?
◼️ Lesson 55 - I thought that today would be hot. I understand that usually it's possible but today it's not possible.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 55)
QUIZ 55: Answers and Explanations
☐ 55.1 - To write, like this / like that
◼️ Lesson 56 - Have you ever been to South America? I want to travel in Thailand, which region should I go? I want to live in Thailand, what must I do?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 56)
QUIZ 56: Answers and Explanations
☐ 56.1 - Only...
◼️ Lesson 57 - Do you know how to swim? How much money do you get at work as a teacher? I want to get to learn Thai with you.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 57)
QUIZ 57: Answers and Explanations
☐ 57.1 - I know how to swim
◼️ Lesson 58 - 5 years ago. In another 5 years.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 58)
QUIZ 58: Answers and Explanations
☐ 58.1 - 10 years ago...
☐ 58.2 - In another 2 weeks...
◼️ Lesson 59 - Are you done with homework yet? I finished studying Thai already. I don't know if I will be able to graduate.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 59)
QUIZ 59: Answers and Explanations
☐ 59.1 - Did you eat breakfast yet?
☐ 59.2 - I'm still not done
☐ 59.3 - I'm still eating...
◼️ Lesson 60 - I have the same habits as my dad. He talks like he doesn't care. Where did you guys meet each other?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 60)
QUIZ 60: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 61 - When did Grace and Edgar get married? Don't talk to each other. Don't misunderstand.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 61)
QUIZ 61: Answers and Explanations
☐ 61.1 - When are you going?
◼️ Lesson 62 - I speak Thai as good as my brother. iPhone is fast like Huawei
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 62)
QUIZ 62: Answers and Explanations
☐ 62.1 Equals
◼️ Lesson 63 - Where are you about to go? What were you about to say a while ago?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 63)
QUIZ 63: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 64 - What time do I get on the plane? I don't know why these days I feel happier. Can you speak slower?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 64)
QUIZ 64: Answers and Explanations
☐ 64.1 - You got more beautiful
◼️ Lesson 65 - What's up, how are you doing? What's wrong, are you sick? What are you gonna do today?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 65)
QUIZ 65: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 66 - When I was young, I wanted to be a musician. Thailand is too hot. I never wanted to learn at all. I don't want to play anymore.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 66)
QUIZ 66: Answers and Explanations
☐ 66.1 - Thailand is too hot!
☐ 66.2 - When I was a kid...
☐ 66.3 - I don't like to listen to music while I study
☐ 66.4 - When you were 20 years old...
◼️ Lesson 67 - How tall are you? We are the same age. How long do I have to wait? From Bangkok to Chiang Mai by train it's 10 hours.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 67)
QUIZ 67: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 68 - From home to school by motorbike taxi takes how many hours? What do you use the computer for? I cook by myself.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 68)
QUIZ 68: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 69 - I want to go to every place in Thailand. Where do you want to go? The city that I want to go to the most is...
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 69)
QUIZ 69: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 70 - If I drop my phone, will it break? My mom asks...
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 70)
QUIZ 70: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 71: What time will your friend arrive? I have to use the bathroom. Depends on the day.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 71)
QUIZ 71: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 72 - You never told me. I heard that you are coming to Thailand. I don't remember if he told me already or not.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 72)
QUIZ 72: Answers and Explanations
☐ 72.1 - What again? I couldn't hear.
☐ 72.2 - I remember. I forgot.
◼️ Lesson 73: Where again? What time again? How much again?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 73)
QUIZ 73: Answers and Explanations
☐ 73.1 - What again?
☐ 73.2 - How much is it again?
☐ 73.3 - What else do you have?
◼️ Lesson 74 - Thailand is worth living in. Thai is interesting. The food looks delicious.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 74)
QUIZ 74: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 75 - My mom wants me to eat. You made me misunderstand.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 75)
QUIZ 75: Answers and Explanations
☐ 75.1 - What did your mom want you to do?
☐ 75.2 - Who made you cry?
◼️ Lesson 76 - Could you turn on the computer for me?
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 76)
QUIZ 76: Answers and Explanations
☐ 76.1 Take this, bring this
◼️ Lesson 77 - I eat breakfast before I go to work.
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 77)
QUIZ 77: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 78 - It's fun
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 78)
QUIZ 78: Answers and Explanations
☐ 78.1 - It's heavy!
A2 - Tenses

◼️ Lesson 79 - Tenses: Will, present continuous tense, already
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 79)
QUIZ 79: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 80 - Tenses: Time words
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 80)
QUIZ 80: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 81 - Tenses: Have done something in the past
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 81)
QUIZ 81: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 82 - Tenses: I did something...and came back
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 82)
QUIZ 82: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 83 - Tenses: Action verbs or Abstract/State verbs
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 83)
QUIZ 83: Answers and Explanations
◼️ Lesson 84 - Tenses: Negate past one time actions
✏️ Quiz (Lesson 84)
QUIZ 84: Answers and Explanations
Conversation breakdown

What's your name
Conversation breakdown - What is your name?
How old are you?
Conversation breakdown - How old are you?
What do you do for work?
Conversation breakdown - What do you do for work?
Is teaching online hard?
Conversation breakdown - Is teaching online hard?
Where do you live?
Conversation breakdown - Where do you live?
Listening practice stories

Guess who it is (Famous person)
Guess what it is (Famous animal)
Guess what it is (It's a place you have been to!)
Guess what it is (Thai food)
What do you eat for breakfast?
What time do you wake up?
Did she wash her face?
Where to go from here?

Where to go from here?
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