Fastest Way to Read Thai in the World
Learn the top 13 Thai letters in only ten minutes. Try out the Rapid Method yourself. Based on quirky images, you will learn to recognize several of the top letters without any memorization, and learn to say them correctly. After learning these letters, do the follow-on exercise www.youtube.com and see for yourself how quickly you can learn to read. I had to get up at 2am as it was the quietest (well, least noisy) part of the day. So sorry about the sleepy voice! If you need a visual reference while watching this video then download the supplementary notes for the ebook: learnthaionline.com For more details and to get a free Rapid Read Thai starter course, please visit my new website at www.learnthaionline.com. See what The Bangkok Post has to say about the Rapid Method www.facebook.com Also see us on facebook www.facebook.com – Please click on Like because it helps to promote the Rapid Method for learning languages.
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This is extraordinarily creative and hilarious. Well done! Thank you.
Wow!! Just watching it once for the first time and I have it memorised! Awesome thanks so much o(^▽^)o
Hi indyfat, I’m glad you like the video. I wanted to make Thai easier to learn by getting rid of the confusing “consonant classes”. I could have used red-blue-purple or city-sports-nature… anything that helps to remember the different types of letters. But I thought, there are lots of ladyboys in Thailand, so it would be funny and appropriate to use boy-girl-ladyboy. Each letter now has a personality, depending on their sex. That makes it very easy to remember when we learn about the tones.
I’m Thai. I like this video. It’s very funny and 555 (hahaha) But why ladyboys? It’s true that at present there are increasing ladyboys in Thailand. But I think this situation also emerges all around the world, not only in my country. Don’t be serious about my claim. I’m just thinking why so and interesting why you compare the alphabet graphics with ladyboys. And I’m real male.
It’s very funny, you’ve done very well. You pronunce Thai so good!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA @ the ladyboy snakes. Brilliant.
Excellent learning methodology. Thank you.
We use tones in English too: some words are pronounced like a question “How?” (saam?=3, moo?=pig).
For other words, you must feel uncertain while asking a question “What?” (wat?=temple, rot?=car).
Then there are words that should be said emphatically with excitement “Yeah!” (cow!!=rice, die!!=yes you can)
And other words are said while feeling relaxed, sad and depressed: “Ohhh…” (see…=four).
Some words change meaning with the tone, but it’s usually fairly easy to tell: e.g. see?=color.
If you think about Thai differently, it’s actually quite easy – it’s a highly logical and consistent language. The tones are not really that important, it’s only a few situations where it really matters. However, Thais will expect to hear a certain tonal sound from you and may need you to repeat if you mix up the tones, just as in English if you get the stress wrong (think of “HOSpital” vs. “hospiTALity”. Read the first article of my free Starter Course about the tones: ow(dot)ly/a8Fl2
thank you really much
im trying to learn thai but its a really hard language and i not understood how to put and say vowels. thats a super nice tutorial and helped a lot, but im still a little bit confused because someone told me, they have 5 tones (low, mid, high, falling and rising) and all of them have different meaning…so how now in which way to pronounce? its even hard to recognize a difference in those 5 tones…
very quirky video, thanks for the effort, i love it! oh and don’t be too bothered by others who don’t have a sense of humour like we do.
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Furthermore, by being able to read you can learn independently without having to attend classes (which itself limits the amount and kind of Thai you can learn), and you are able to absorb Thai continuously by reading it from your environment.
You’re absolutely right. But it’s more than just “learning the alphabet”, you also need to know how to READ. When you know how to sound out Thai words, you speak accurately with the correct tones. Most people who learn to speak through listening only (or worse: via Romanized phonetics) tend to speak in a kind of mangled Thai that is difficult for natives to understand.
Would you say that learning the alphabet first provides a better framework for understanding how to speak the language? I have lived here for a year now and can speak enough to get by, but I want to improve. The letters have always seemed far too baffling for me!
I agree this is strange
i appreciate the association to pictures to ease out learning of similar looking letters
What a fun approach to learning the alphabet system! I’m with a group of eight students from the US who have been studying Thai for just over a month now. Our book has used a confusing phonetic alphabet the entire way through. The other students will only have a four day crash-course of the alphabet, so I’m definitely referring them to this video. We’re college students, and the way you’ve presented everything here is so unique it gives an instant, and funny, link to the letters~ Thank you!
Do you speak and read Thai? It’s one thing to criticize Thai people & culture; and another thing to live and retire here and then disparage our hosts by not bothering to learn their language. You scorn immigrants in USA who can’t/won’t speak English, why is it different for us?
The Rapid Method gives you a solid foundation for gradually picking up speaking & understanding from your surroundings. I think that’s quite respectful (regardless of the wacky approach), don’t you?
Adam has deleted all my comments, but here’s the gist of what I said. I agree: “learning how to read first is essential!” The conventional way of learning is arduous & complicated; and Adam although fluent is mistaken about:
1. ต (“dt”) IS the “t” as in “stop” – the point is not use your voice = “d” and not to expel any air = “t”.
2. ป (pb) is the same as our “p” inside “supple” or “spy”: no voice, no air.
3. There are NO “g” or “j” sounds in Thai. Think of “sky” or “chew” (no air).
To compare Adam’s method with the Rapid method, please search youtube: “jadambrad middle class”.
The Bangkok Post sent an editor (an American fluent in Thai) and a senior (Thai) journalist to my weekend workshop. They felt that my approach was mostly correct and remarkably effective: everyone in my class could read Thai and pronounce the sounds accurately with the correct tones after just two days. Google the article “finally a fun quick way to read thai”.
Terrific video and helps me a lot-thank you!
- yes that’s true
the ‘Rapid’ approach is about simplifying and reducing the material to be learnt using effective mnemonics and associations – if it were German, I’d use men for ‘der’, women for ‘die’ and perhaps animals or children for ‘das’, but in Thai I thought it would be a lot more fun to use ladyboys for the ‘third sex’ as they are so much a part of Thai culture with its tolerant Buddhist principles… 
this seems twisted with an oppsession with ladyboys
do u ride the short bus to school?lol
oh i cant wait to try it . . . i love that its a healthier version of a meal that is usually packed with sugar and fat!
That is such a beautiful recipe! I can’t wait to make it!!
“I can not wait …to EAT THIS UP!!! …my whole half cup portion”
LOL!!! haha
Thai = Thailand
Hey Sparkle, My Husband and I made this and it was fabulous. The first time we made it, it was a little more spice than we thought. It’s not really a hot recipe, every bite pops in your mouth. We’ve made it quite a few times now and love it more and more every time. You should try it out!!
What a yummo recipe, I will have to try it!
Does “Thai” mean hot? I’ve never had Thai food……..is it fairly spicy?
Oooh, that looks good!