Practical Thai reading - Everything you need to know to read Thai (Beginner - Advanced)
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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 vowels
◼️ Reading Reference - 1
❓Quiz: Middle class consonants
❓Quiz: Long or Short Vowel (I)
◼️ Reading Practice - 1
2️⃣ Lesson 2 - Low class consonants + 8 vowels
◼️ Reading Reference - 2
❓Quiz: Low class consonant
❓Quiz: Long or Short Vowel (II)
◼️ Reading practice - 2
3️⃣ Lesson 3 - High class consonants + 8 vowels
◼️ 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!
2️⃣ Lesson 2 - Learn to pronounce the 5 Thai Tones!
◼️ Practice - Imitate my tones!
◼️ Practice - Choose the correct tone
◼️ Practice - determine the tones (All 5 tones)
3️⃣ Lesson 3 - What are the Thai tone marks called?
4️⃣ Lesson 4 - Learn to read words with tone marks
◼️ 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!
◼️ Practice - Reading words without tone marks!
◼️ Practice - More on reading words without tone marks
Read real sentences + Practice everything you learned so far!
Module 3 - Fill in all the gaps!

About module 3 ⭐
Vowels that change the way they look
Cheat sheet: Vowels that change the way the look
Structure of Thai language (no spaces, vowel blocks)
อ as a tone changer (อยาก, อย่า, อย่าง, อยู่)
ห as a tone changer (i.e., หรู)
True clusters (i.e., กล, คว, ขร)
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-,...)
Consonant + ร = อน sound (i.e., กร = กอน)
Linking syllables in Thai
รร become a vowel (กรร = กัน)
Which one to use ไ or ใ
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 / Resources
Practice reading with Thai reader (Beginner - Advanced)

Practice reading though stories

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