Learn to speak, read, write and understand the Thai language

Welcome to learnthainow.com. The following lessons and quizzes will help you learn to speak, read, write and understand Thai. These lessons teach all the main grammatical constructs of the Thai language, will help you understand and speak the tones correctly and help build your vocabulary. The lessons included spoken Thai examples and the Thai text can be optionally displayed with spaces between Thai words and with Romanized transliterations for beginning Thai readers.

All Thai words include hyper links to www.thai-language.com, the most complete and easy to use English-Thai dictionary on the internet, where you can find more examples of use, related words and sound clips.

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Beginner

1a. Thai basics, hello, thank you, small talk      

1b: Ordering food, shopping, numbers and money      

Thai grammar

2a. Yes/No and confirmation questions      

2b. What, where, when, why, which, how questions    

3a. Talking about people

3b. Talking about things and places

4a. Past, present and future tenses

4b. Before, after and event order

4c. Duration and frequency of events

5. Think that, know that, suppose that, etc.

6. Requests, demands and offering help

7. Actions, doing things

Vocabulary

8. Days and months

9. Food, drink, bar and restaurant

10. At home

11. At work

12. At the doctor/dentist

13. Heart words

14. Romance and dating

15. News, politics, current affairs

16. Thai TV, soaps

Having fun with tones

17. Khao, mai, sai and other multi-tone words

Reference

18. Thai alphabet

19. Tone rules

20. Classifiers and quantifiers