Description:

Think the Thai alphabet is too complex to learn? The Thai alphabet may look daunting, but once decoded, it opens the door to accurate pronunciation, better listening, and more confident speaking. With a little effort, you won’t need phonetics—you’ll learn the principles for reading Thai.

This course will show how you can begin to learn to read Thai script, to give a basic orientation to the constituent parts of the writing system. Lawrence will discuss the advantages of reading Thai script phonetic systems based on European alphabets.

Participants will gain an understanding of the constituent parts of Thai script:

• the consonants & vowels,
• the tonal markers & special characters,
• the consonant classes,
• ending consonants and how they affect tones.

Lawrence Nahlik was a US Peace Corps Volunteer from 1977 to 1979. After grad school in his home state of Missouri, he returned to Thailand as a consultant. After a career in Information Technology in Wisconsin, he carried out his long-term plan to retire in ChiangMai in 2011. He and his wife Yao, a native of Phayao Province, reside in Sansai.

COST: 350 THB