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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Thai learning environment Surin, Buriram
Dear readers,
This winter it's that time again... Nice 2 1/2 month to Thailand! Now I would like to spend my time there well to really master the language, speaking but also reading and writing it. Because I want to prepare myself as well as possible to live in Thailand in a few years.
Now the question is whether anyone knows a good training location in the Surin area, Buriram is also allowed. Or a private teacher I have already found something about that: https://www.learnthaistyle.com/thailand/thailand
Does anyone know if this is a sound way of learning? Or does anyone have experience with this?
I would like to hear your advice and or comments.
Yours faithfully,
Arnoud
Dear Arnold,
A wise and courageous decision to learn the Thai language, especially if you want to settle here. What you did not mention in your question is your age and previous education.
If you think that you can speak Thai reasonably well after a few months of study, supervised or not, I will probably have to disappoint you. Don't get me started on reading and writing. The Thai alphabet is one of the most difficult in the world in terms of logic and it does require quite some time of study, because somewhat to master.
You can find a lot on the internet, especially You tube. Start simple with things around the house, after all, that is where you spend most of your time. Table, chair, curtain, door, window, ceiling, garden, plant grass,
fork, knife, open and close, front and back.
Before you can speak a little "house, garden and kitchen" Thai intelligibly, it will soon be a year or two further. Keep going and don't give up..
Good luck.
How quickly you learn a language depends entirely on the amount of time you spend on it. If you are immersed day and night 🙂 in Thai for three months, you will speak it almost fluently.
An hour of lessons a day from a teacher (go to a high school and ask an English teacher to teach you Thai and tell him to only speak Thai while you keep repeating what he says) and an hour of self-study and, voila , after two months you can have a simple conversation. For reading and writing you buy books that they use in kindergarten and primary school. Do you have a Thai partner ask, no beg, if she wants to talk Thai with you. Never just learn words but always in a short sentence. Not 'house' but 'that's my house'. Not 'love' but 'I love you'. Not 'angry' but 'I'm angry' etc.
And of course the many nice videos, but you have to look them up yourself. To persevere! That's what Dirk said.
I had 10 language lessons in Amsterdam at the consulate
And if you really want to learn Thai well, it really takes years, I'm afraid
Everything has turned around and we speak from our throats and their more from their mouths
Dear Tino, you seem to me to be a smart man, but I have to contradict you. Go to a high school and ask the English teacher if he can teach you. The problem is that those English teachers in Surin and Buriram and the rest of the Isan do not speak English themselves. I speak from experience as I taught English conversation in the local high school for some time and I could only communicate with my Thai colleagues in Thai. Rob.