เรียนภาษาไทย
Supplement to the Purnell Thai Language Course Module One
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CONTENTS
* Phrases, Questions, classifiers, and family
* Vocabulary/Dictionary alphabetized in English
Thai is a tonal language with five tones. The best way to show this in
English is using IPA
high tone low tone
rising tone falling tone, and mid tone has no mark.
The majority of the symbols in the IPA are based on the letter forms of the
Latin alphabet, like in English, however an initial c
sounds like a j, an initial k sounds like a g, an initial p sounds like a pb,
and an initial t sounds like a dt. Those letters when followed
by an h, then have the usual English initial sound, i.e ph, is p as in put, it
does not make an f sound. The N sounds like ng. For more information
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thai_alphabet
Excellent resources for learning Thai and other dictionaries are
at
http://www.thai-language.com, also see
http://www.thai2english.com/
and
http://english-thai-dictionary.com/
A comprehensive site on learning Thai is at www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/spokenthai/unit1/default.htm
If you have trouble viewing the fonts see www.seasite.niu.edu/seasite.htm
You can download the vocabulary list in Excel format for printing. You can view the entire dictionary here.
You can download the entire module 1 supplement in Word format for printing
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