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The Invisible Vowel Rule, part 3 Posted by palmisano on Sep 25, 2012
In the first part of this series, I talked about how to determine the vowel when it wasn’t visible. In the second part, I talked about how vowels can change its appearance. In this third part, I will show several more vowels that change it’s appearance.
The Invisible Vowel Rules, part 2 Posted by palmisano on Sep 21, 2012
In the first part, I showed how strings of consonants can be pronounced despite not having any visibly defined vowels. I had simplified it as just four easy to remember rules.
The Invisible Vowel Rules, part 1 Posted by palmisano on Sep 20, 2012
In English, words are pronounced left to right. You pronounce the first letter of the word first, and the last letter last. But not so in Thai! Vowels are written above, below, to the left, to the right, and even surrounding the consonants. For a beginner it’s an unintuitive concept.
How to use the Thai word ด้วย Posted by palmisano on Sep 10, 2012
The word duay3 ด้วย is a multipurpose word that, depending on how it’s used, can have many different meanings in English. It could be translated as ‘by’, ‘together’, ‘with’, ‘out of’, ‘too’, ‘also’, or ‘with’. Sometimes you can tell which to use by identifying the location of surrounding verbs and nouns, but in other cases…
Animal Practice Word Match Posted by palmisano on Sep 3, 2012
Practice Thai animal vocabulary.
How to say ‘a lot’ in Thai Posted by palmisano on Aug 30, 2012
How do you say that ‘there is a lot’ in Thai?
Vocabulary for Animals Posted by palmisano on Aug 28, 2012
Today I have more vocabulary words than you can shake a stick at. One way to learn and practice these animal words is to print out this sheet and make a day trip down to the zoo with a Thai friend.