Overview of the Thai Course

The Thai Course is divided into 40 units, many of which are composed of dialogues, notes, and supplemental vocabulary. The course assumes the student has no prior knowledge of Thai and is fully self-instructional. This means that while an instructor/native speaker would be helpful, it is not imperative to learn Thai with this course. Volume I contains 19 CDs and a 560 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the textbook in a PDF file format. Volume II contains 17 CDs and a 422 page textbook or 1 DVD with all lessons on MP3 with the textbook in a PDF file format.

Unit 1: Greetings: Hello. How are you? I'm fine, and you?

Unit 2: Finding Out Someone's Name

Unit 3: Identifying objects.

Unit 4: Establishing Identity and Ownership of Objects

Unit 5: Introductions in a social setting

Unit 6: Mr. Smith meets a Thai in the provinces

Unit 7: Mr. Smith meets a Thai in the provinces

Unit 8:Americans at work in Bangkok

Unit 9: Going to Don Muang to pick up a friend

Unit 10: Basic episode; Review.

Unit 11: At the language school

Unit 12: My family

Unit 13: Telling Time

Unit 14: Directions

Unit 15: An Interview at Korat

Unit 16: Directions

Unit 17: Directions

Unit 18: An Appointment

Unit 19: Directions to the bathroom

Unit 20: Basic episode. Tambon Bangchak

Unit 21: Planning a trip to the Floating Market

Unit 22: An American Contacts a Thai Friend

Unit 23: Basic Episode.

Unit 24: Questions about the basic episode

Unit 25: Making an Aquaintance

Unit 26: Discussion of Wedding Gifts

Unit 27: Getting a Taxi

Unit 28: Conversation with a taxi driver

Unit 29: Going out to eat

Unit 30: A visit to the Seventh Day Adventist hospital

Unit 31: Looking for a place to live

Unit 32: Renting a house

Unit 33: Renting a house

Unit 34: Renting a house

Unit 35: Review dialogs

Unit 36: Buying Clothing

Unit 37: Buying Clothing and jewelry

Unit 38: Shopping for Toilet Articles

Unit 39: Buying Fruit

Unit 40: Banking and Shopping Trip

The Thai Course teaches the national spoken language in the dialect of educated speakers of Bangkok and Central Thailand. It starts with a programmed introduction to Thai phonology to acquaint you with the significant features of the language's sound system. When writing, the Thais use a complex system based on Sanskrit, but in the course a special phonetic transcription is used which will help you read and write more easily.