🇦🇺 อ่านไทย - Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Learn Thai Script - One Spelling to Rule Them All

[@mahoneymanbarry]

Learning the Thai consonants, especially ป and ต is a great start to speaking better. The bp and dt sounds are good beginner projects for the learner.

[@dudeinthesea]

ป ต ง are the hardest indeed for speakers of western language

[@john-raphaellacas8107]

That's amazing ! Thank you for the video!

[@JR_thelocalnomad]

This is a great point and foreigners speaking a few words of Thai should take note. I remember watching big name Thailand-based English and American youtubers trying to associate certain Thai words with different meaning solely because they see Thai language through the lens of Roman script representation. I kid you not this big name British guy, while he was at a nice seafood restaurant, said in his video that he was having a "Tin fish" while it's actually in Thai called "ปลากระพง" (sea bass) and somehow he confused the word "กระพง" with "กระป๋อง" (tin/can) hence he thought he was having this so-called "Tin fish". Anyone who can read Thai should be able to tell that both "กระพง" and "กระป๋อง" are two different things, while to a foreigner's ears they may sound similar. Another notable example is by this big name American guy, he was having a dish called "ต้มโคล้ง"(a type of spicy soup) he confuses the word "โคล้ง" with "คลอง" (canal). So, he literally said on his video that he was having a "canal soup". I know that these mistakes were small given the quality of contents that they put out. I like these guys and I know for a fact that they definitely put a lot of effort into researching their videos. It was just cringy to hear these language faux pas from respectable guys like these two. My point is Mr. Jay is absolutely right about this Thai script thing. The confusion and second-hand embarrassments could have been avoided had these guys put a bit of effort into researching those Thai words before hand.

[@StuartJayRaj]

brilliant example. could you point me in the direction of that video? would love to do a clip on it

[@JR_thelocalnomad]

"I flew all the way to Phuket for THESE LOCAL NOODLES! 🇹🇭 Ultimate Phuket Food Tour"

[@drifter8800]

Embarassing? Sounds like youre just a stiff.

[@sokaiya1]

You are 100% correct, try convincing most people that want to learn Thai language even different courses offered

[@davegraham7550]

I would suggest that knowing some phonetic representation of Thai or devenagari first is useful and then going to the Thai alphabet makes it more accesible. Thai writing is idiosyncratic with letters changing sound at the start and finish of words so being able to reference it is helpful. 21 starting consonnt sounds and 8 finishing sounds, yes?

[@NoCoke-o8x]

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[@Paul_in_Thailand]

How funny that this video pops up as my Thai is stagnating and I don't know where else to go next to improve my Thai or what to learn (other than learn a few new words a week and forget half of them). I'm in

[@StuartJayRaj]

Serendipity! 😁

[@คนสายดักเหล่าคนดอย]

อ. รู้มากกว่าคนไทยเยอะมากครับ ส่วนมากคนไทยลืมไปหมดเเล้ว ควบกล้ำ โดยเฉพาะกับ ร. ล.

[@Androgen321]

Go straight to Thai script. It’s not impossible. Thai 4 year olds do it. Google translate is very useful and gives pronunciation and writing.

[@Androgen321]

Try ‘Learn Thai from a white man’.

[@coolnetclub]

นอกจากวรรณยุกต์แล้วอีกอย่างที่ให้ชาวต่างชาติออกเสียงภาษาไทยไม่ได้ไม่ชัด คือ ตัวสะกด ตัวสะกดมีอยู่ ๘ แม่ ได้แก่ แม่กง แม่กน แม่กม แม่กก แม่กด แม่กบ แม่เกย และแม่เกอว อาจารย์ช่วยอธิบายตรงนี้ด้วยก็ดี

[@philip32276]

I have to disagree with you there. Back in the army, over 50 years ago, I worked as a Chinese (major in college) translator, even though I went to to the Monterey Language Institute for Japanese, but I also took Thai lessons for 8 months while stationed in Hawaii. We learned completely through phonetics, and for some reason I found the writing system very hard, even thought I could read and write Chinese and Japanese. After over 50 years I can now make out words in Thai, but still can't read a newspaper. If you have a Thai teacher who teaches you how to pronounce the romanization, you should not have any problems. I also speak Spanish near fluency, and can get along in Korean, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Hindi to different levels, so I know pretty well how bad I am in some languages, and how well I can speak others. The trick is if you can fool people over the phone, or talk to someone who is blind and see if they can figure out where you are from. Never believe anyone who comments on how well you speak.

[@songsatipha]

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