Thai Language Blog

As a beginner, it is very important to quickly build up a vocabulary. Even if your grammar is entirely wrong, you can still get concepts across better if you know more words. The best vocabulary to start off with is words that are very commonly used – meaning they are very important giving you a lot of immediate practice. The most commonly used nouns are things you typically find around you, such as in your room or home or office.

How to practice: Since you see these things every day, try and remember as many as you can when you’re sitting at the kitchen table eating your breakfast or whatever. Or even prepare stickers and attach the names to the actual items – whatever works for you. Memorizing about 10 words per day is an easy acceptable learning rate.

If you’re an intermediate learner and already know these words, memorize how to spell them in Thai.

We will continue with more computer terminology. These words are considered more difficult as you’re less likely to encounter them in daily life. Only learn these after you’ve already mastered the beginner level terms in the previous post.

As before, learn how to spell each in Thai if you find this too easy.

What’s nice about computer terminology is most of the words come directly from English. Although this makes memorization easier, it’s still a challenge due to the tones and the required ‘mis’-pronounciations. As mentioned before in an earlier lesson, ‘tap-sap’ are words taken directly from English.

Learn how to spell each in Thai if you find this too easy.  =P