#thai studyblr

Thai is just..... she’s so cool... and I love her🥺

Like I don’t want to just be A1 in every language I’m interested in but am so tempted to add another language to my study routine. And I know this will slow down the progression of one or two others because of time management and whatever but ughhwhahsjak I just love so manyyyyy languages:(((

One thing I did wrong when I started learning Thai is that I assumed it would be like Korean. That there would be an alphabet with the consonants and vowels and that’s the basics.

Thai said no, what are you on.

When I first started learning Thai I used thaipod101 and a website that had the 44 consonants.

But as I watched thaipod101, the vowels were at the front, back, on top it made no sense and each site gave me a different meaning for each consonants or syllable.

I have started reading read Thai in 10 days by Arthur juyaso and my goodness the way the book is explaining things. It actually makes sense.

What I know so far Thai has

44 consonants (2 obsolete) but there are only 20 consonant sounds)

21 vowel symbols.

4 tone marks

A syllable has 2 - 4 constituents. Initial consonant, a vowel, final consonant and or tone mark.

However, vowels can be located in front, after, above, underneath or enclosing the initial consonant.

Also, the location of most vowels are fixed. This can be used as an indicator to when a syllable is finished.

Note, even though a vowel might be in front of the initial consonant when it is pronounced, it is not said first.

Also, like how the Greek use a for alpha, b for beta like a consonant acrophonics in Thai they do the same thing so g = chicken. And I’m not going to lie the Thai g looks like a chicken lol

Day 22/100

2019.08.13

I recently started getting into Photography again and my father gave me this really old Polaroid camera and bought me some film for it, needless to say, I love taking pictures with it! 

I also managed to finally clean up my desk and I have to say, it feels amazing being able to work freely and not having to worry about a cluttered desk!

Further, then that, I am pleasantly surprised by the amount of studying I got done today! 

Maths ~ 1hr 20min

I started with Chapter 1 of my Senior book and I have been working my way through the first topic. So far it’s going fairly well, but I know it won’t last.

Latin ~ 1hr 30min

Reviewed lots of Vocab and did some light Grammar! 

Spanish ~ 3hr 20 min

I got a lot of Spanish done today! Besides finishing a chapter of my school book, I also did a lot of Duolingo and reviewed some Flashcards. 

In addition to that, I also had a long talk with a Native speaker, where we talked in both German and Spanish! I really enjoyed that, since I barely get to talk Spanish.

Thai ~ 1hr

I have finally found some good resources to study Thai and hopefully, from now on I will be able to actually make some progress learning Thai!

Today I learned the following words:

สวัสดี – ค่ะ - Hello

สบายดีไหม – ครับ / ค่ะ - How are you?

สบายดี – ค่ะ - Fine, thank you

ขอบคุณ  – ค่ะ - Thank you

ใช่ – ค่ะ - Yes

ไม่ –  ค่ะ - No

อาจจะ – ค่ะ - Maybe

ไม่เป็นไร – ค่ะ - Never mind/it’s okay

ผมฉันพูดภาษาไทยไม่ได้ – ค่ะ - I can’t speak Thai

กรุณาพูดช้าช้า – ค่ะ - Please speak slowly

Korean ~ 2hr 40min

I worked in all of my four Korean books, did some additional Flashcards and FINALLY after a long long time some Duolingo lessons! I am very pleased with how my Korean is progressing, but I still could work a lot harder! I only did 5 words today, because I reviewed a lot of words.

As always here are the words I learned for my LAPTOP1000 challenge:

지나다 - to pass, elapse, go on

많이 - a lot (adverb)

시간 - time, hour(s)

인간 - a human being, a person

사실 - the truth, a fact

My first Thai learning book has arrived. I tried learning Thai with thaipod101 on YouTube and that gave me a headache, didn’t understand anything and it was very confusing. So, I bought this book Read Thai in ten days by Arthur Juyaso.

https://youtu.be/vpGdD9fgWsw

Men - Krub Women - Kha/Ka

Women/ men say that at the end of a sentence. Polite.

2. Sa-wa-dee

Good morning/ evening/night/ Hi/Hello

3. Sabaai-Dee-mai

How are you? (Formal)

4. Pben-ngai-bang

What’s up? (How are you? Informal/friends)

5. Khob-khun

Thank you

Khob-Khun mahk

Thank you very much

6. Khor-tode

Sorry

(The lady said to say this with krub or ka at the end to make the apology to seem more sincere.) I knew sorry because in tharntype epi 12 Type said sorry like a million times. So I went back to watch the scene when Type apologised a lot and he only said Khor-tode without the krub or maybe it’s a tv show or people might not say krub that much maybe if their close in Thai? Idk)

7. Mai- pben- rai

It’s fine/ it’s okay/ you’re welcome. To answer thank you or sorry.

8. Hiu khao- I’m hungry

Hiu Narm - I’m thirsty

9. Aroi- Yummy/delicious/ tasty

Aroi- jing-jing - Really delicious

Aroi- mahk- Very delicious

10. Mai-ao-pet

Don’t take spicy food

11. Pbai- laew-na

I’ve gotta go/I’m leaving/I’m going

Bonus:

I saw a comment on the video that said the first Thai word they learnt was raikantopeni and I burst out laughing 😂 since they show this at the start of basically every bl drama.

I learnt about the pronunciation of vowel sounds and the apostrophe is used to indicate that the vowel is short.

I also learnt about the 5 Tones which are as important to learn as consonants and vowels in Thai.

The tones are:

Mid tone

Low tone

Falling tone

High tone

Rising tone