My new term learning Thai at AUA started on Thursday, 27th September 2007. We learned basic conversation. Not many new words I learned on the first day.
The teacher starts to explain some Thai words by saying the words and doing some act without explaining the meaning in English. She repeated the acts several times, so that each of us can understand what she did (we are not asked to guess, only to observe). After that, we start learning basic phrases and how to pronounce them correctly.
Thai language is a tonal language. Different tones makes different meaning, that is why we have to pronounce everything correctly. Thai language has it’s own characters (script), but since I only take speaking class, we don’t use the Thai characters. We learned Thai language using transliteration with special tones mark.
On the first day we learned about :
- Pronoun : I ( for man ♂ “phÅm” ผม , for woman ♀ “dì chán/ chán” ดิฉัน), He/she – “kháo” เขา, they – “pûak kháo” พวà¸-เขา, us – “pûak rao” พวà¸à¹€à¸£à¸²
- Particle : for man “khráp” คฺรับ, for woman: “khà ” ค่ะ, for shorten I will write kh and you can choose depend your gender
- Say greetings : Sà -wà t dii kh สวัสดีครับ or สวัสดีค่ะ
- Asking how are you and answer: Khun sà -baay dii mái kh? คุณสบายดีไหม
♀/ ♂ sà -baay dii kh สบาย or negative answer: ♀/ ♂ mâi sà -baay kh ไม่สบาย- Saying thank you: kh̀ɔɔp khun kh ขà¸à¸šà¸„ุณ
- Question and Answer using what is … (?à -rai) à¸à¸°à¹„ร
- Khun ch
ûu?à -rai kh ? ♀/ ♂ chuu{your name} kh- คุณชื่à¸à¸à¸°à¹„รค่ะ/ครับ? ดิฉัน / ผมชื่ฅ ค่ะ/ครับ
- Khun naamsakun ?à -rai kh ? ♀/ ♂ naamsakun {your last name} kh
- คุณนามสà¸à¸¸à¸¥à¸à¸°à¹„รค่ะ/ครับ ? ดิฉัน/ผมนามสà¸à¸¸à¸¥… ค่ะ/ครับ
- Khun pen khon ?à -rai kh ? ♀/ ♂ pen khon {your nationality} kh
- คุณเป็นคนà¸à¸°à¹„รค่ะ/ครับ ? ดิฉัน/ผมเป็นคน… ค่ะ/ครับ
- Khun maa jà ak m
uang ?à -rai kh ? ♀/ ♂ maa jà ak muaÅ‹ {city name}- คุณมาจาà¸à¹€à¸¡à¸·à¸à¸‡à¸à¸°à¹„รค่ะ/ครับ ? ดิฉัน/ผมมาจาà¸à¹€à¸¡à¸·à¸à¸‡ … ค่ะ/ครับ
- Khun maa jà ak prathêet ?à -rai kh? ♀/ ♂ maa jà ak prathêet {country name}
- คุณมาจาà¸à¸›à¸£à¸°à¹€à¸—ศà¸à¸°à¹„รค่ะ/ครับ ? ดิฉัน/ผมมาจาà¸à¸›à¸£à¸°à¹€à¸—ศ … ค่ะ/ครับ
- Khun phûut phaasǎa ?à -rai kh? ♀/ ♂ phûut phaasǎa {your language}
- คุณพูดภาษาà¸à¸°à¹„รค่ะ/ครับ ? ดิฉัน/ผมพูดภาษา…ค่ะ/ครับ
- Asking the same question to others after answer a question (how about you) – khun lâ kh ? คุณละ
Before the class is over, she gave us a homework to practice the questions and answers that we have learned so that we can practice them on the second
Hi….Nama saya Johan…………aku ingin belajar bahasa Thai…..tapi di daerah ku tidak ada yg membuka kursus untuk bahasa Thai……….apakah di Thailand ada universitas untuk orang di Indonesia dalam mempelajari bahasa Thai……
Khob khun…
Halo Johan, untuk belajar bahasa Thai di Universitas saya kurang tau (mungkin saja ada tapi dengan pengantar bahasa Inggris), tapi di sini ada banyak tempat kursus belajar bahasa Thai. Saya pernah menemukan link kumpulan mahasiswa Thai di Indonesia di daerah Malang, mereka sudah bisa berbahasa Indonesia, mungkin bisa di coba cari tahu sapa tau mereka bisa memberikan kursus bahasa Thai.