Thai for Communication II

Southeast Asia Programme

Duration: 23 January- 10 April 2019 (30 hours)

Time: Wednesday 9.00-12.00 Hrs.

Place: Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University

Objectives

1. Foreign students can write in Thai and understand the Thai script
system

2. Foreign students can understand and communicate basic topics

3. Foreign students learn Thai cultures from the lessons

4. Foreign students can continue Thai classes at higher levels

Content Thai script system and basic conversation in daily life

23 January 2019 Introduction to Thai consonant and vowel system

Introduction to the 3 groups of consonant alphabets

Introduction to the vowels system and alphabets

Introduction to the tone systems

ʔàksɔ̌ ɔn klaaŋ : the general group

Live and dead syllables

30 January 2019 Practicum ʔàksɔ̌ ɔnklaaŋ

Full cluster consonants

Live syllables: simple and non-simple

Dead syllables: simple and non simple

Changed forms of some vowels

13 February 2019 ʔàksɔ̌ ɔn sǔuŋ : live and dead syllable

Practicum

Conversation

20 February 2019 ʔàksɔ̌ ɔn tam : pair and single groups

Live and dead syllables

Conversation

27 February 2019 Overall review

Conversation

13 March 2019 Semi cluster consonants

Practicum

/h/ + single low groups with 3 tones

Conversation

20 March 2019 Foreign words in Thai

Pali and sanskrit

- รร - / ฤ

silent alphabets in some words

silent marker -์

Practicum

Conversation

27 March 2019 Compound words

Complex words

Foreign compound words

3 April 2019 Reading I

Conversation

10 April 2019 Overall review

End of course