🇹🇭 Best Way to Learn Thai ไทย in 2025: A Step-By-Step Guide

[@2T7D3C-p2d]

Yes, this is my motivation, I must learn Thai on my own from scratch, been visiting for over 32 years, so its high time. I cring at the way some westerns pronounce simple Thai place names such as Pattaya, I might not pronounce it accurately but they butcher it. Great video Khun Stuart Raj, Khub Khun Krap

[@TheAkagai]

Even Thais' have "multiple" ways to pronounce Pattaya.. Q. Which way is correct? A. the one that is understood.

[@StuartJayRaj]

❤️ come to our discord ...happy to help

[@StuartJayRaj]

​@@TheAkagaino they don't actually unless you're speaking different dialects. I just did a clip on this

[@chosenfews]

this is amazing work Jay! thank you!

[@StuartJayRaj]

Thank you - I hope i can find a way to get people excited about using them. After so many years learning / teaching languages from this part of the world, these are the tools i know are needed

[@JesseExplores]

You've done such a great job with this.

[@StuartJayRaj]

Thank you - hope it can help

[@nigeljohn65]

I think a key part of developing proficiency in a language is ensuring you develop regular habits that will provide input and output. Reading Thai script means you have access to newspapers or KZbin generated subtitles to news reports. If you make sure you do a little of this every day, you can build vocabulary and skills as well as seeing and hearing authentic grammatical patterns. These tools look to be excellent for fine-tuning vowel sounds, some of which I got wrong for years and sometimes especially still do.

[@StuartJayRaj]

Yeah - once you can read - especially for people living in thailand, then every single step around town becomes a lesson. You can't help BUT learn

[@allenmueller]

I just got back to Bangkok from a beautiful wedding for Thai friends in Chiang Mai. At some points I found myself away from my group of English speaking Thai friends and was forced to work with the Thai I'd acquired since August. August is important because that is when I started with Cracking Thai Fundamentals. I was surprised at how well I was able to communicate. When I couldn't, I worked around other avenues like verifying the spelling of a word they wanted me to say. I'm experiencing micro breakthroughs on a daily basis now. I can sound out just about anything I read on signs, stores, marketing, etc. I'm starting to notice phoneticizations of English, and pronounce Thai words more accurately. Being able to sound out Thai words eliminates the struggle of reading the inadequate spelling of English phoneticized Thai for locations in Thailand. Stu's tools are a very important part of my field and desk study, which really only amounts to about an hour or so a day. Ignore ANY learning source that indicates a "fast track" learning experience. Cracking Thai Fundamentals is where the rubber hit the road for me after struggling for over a year. This is the way.

[@อาตูริโต้]

คุณเก่งมาก สู้ๆนะ

[@iasonf]

Do you have a link to the TSV file with Davids expressions? I couldn't find it online. Thank you for this channel and all your great content, really appreciate it!

[@StuartJayRaj]

if you look in the link in the description, you'll see a link to my mindkraft git repository on bitbucket - you'll find them in resources>thai>4000 sentences>parsed

[@TheAkagai]

Is the book available in digital? e.g. Kindle etc.

[@StuartJayRaj]

No - because of the nature of the book - an all the custom fonts (including ones i built myself), when initially putting it out, Amazon and I decided it was better to keep this as a book book. I have the online ctf programme and resources at jcademy, but the BOOK is complements it and fills in gaps, and is to be kept as a reference too. The new tools however are of course all digital - so you can use them all on your mobile.

[@2T7D3C-p2d]

I might not be able to speak Thai, but I can tell a good instructor when I see one, been watching Khun Stuart Raj on and off for awhile now I can say he is through, very detail oriented and meticulous.

[@catmoon5339]

ชอบมาก ขอบคุณคะ

[@harrymcfadden2572]

Half my Thai vocabulary comes from lyrics from Thai music and I have read mani with spaces and I remember nearly all the words. After reading mani I can actually read lyrics on Thai music videos.

[@dewokbabys3140]

Some reccomendations?

[@NickLearnsThai-VLOG]

Yeh, AI is definitely a game changer (and your tools as well of course). Interesting you only mention using AI to analyse natural specimens. Do you think AI (e.g. ChatGPT) is reliable/good enough to create Thai content from scratch to help with learning?

[@StuartJayRaj]

we do a lot more with AI didn't want to scare people away here

[@NickLearnsThai-VLOG]

@@StuartJayRaj haha ok

[@TheAkagai]

Thai Grammar? What is the best resources for learning Thai Grammar?

[@StuartJayRaj]

there are several good grammars out there. Include a lot about structure in my book, but honestly, using things like these sentences and getting LLMs to customise grammar lessons based on that are super powerful especially as they get to know what you do and don't know ...including other languages, so can tailor grammatical explanations to you

[@อาตูริโต้]

ผมตามมาจากติ๊กต๊อค มีชาวไทยจำนวนมากเคารพที่คุณออกมาพูดให้พวกเรา ขอบคุณที่ช่วยพวกเรา ตอนนี้พวกเราโดนชาวเขมรเคลมและย่ำยีวัฒนธรรมอย่างหนัก (รัฐบาลของเราก็ไม่ปกป้องกลับปล่อยให้ถูกย่ำยี) พวกเรากลุ่มต่อต้านการเคลมวัฒนธรรมกลุ่มใหญ่ ขอขอบคุณจากใจที่ท่านช่วยให้ความรู้ที่ยืนยันโดยฝรั่งที่เรียนรู้ลึกอย่างคุณ 🙏🙏🙏🙏🇹🇭

[@StuartJayRaj]

ขอบคุณมากครับ ผมไม่ได้ทราบว่าเรื่องนี้ออกมากติ๊กต๊อกด้วย เด๊วจะต้องเข้าไปหาดู

[@H_Aekkapong]

@@StuartJayRajคงมีคนไทยเอาไปลงครับอาจารย์ และคนไทยชอบสื่อสารกันผ่าน TikTok ด้วย 😂😂