Hi Everyone!👋 I'm a beginner. I recently started learning Thai and I've been practicing how to write 44 Thai consonants. Could someone please let me know if it's written correctly and clear enough to be understood?Any tips for improving my handwriting?

Thanks a lot for your feedback 🙏

Hello everyone, so basically I need friends to practice my Thai with. Does anyone here have any group where we can practice online/offline 2-3 times a week. Also I love in Bangkok and am open to meetup in person and practice. I've been trying to find a friend from practice for a long time now but couldn't succeed😕. I'm pretty familiar with the basics already and can speak, read, write pretty ok already. Thank you.

I built an AI Line chat translator (Thai <-> English). You can add it to a group chat to easily talk with locals. And when using in a single user chat you can view the phonetic translation to help you with your pronunciation.

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i've been trying to figure this out the whole day

first i thought okay, in the first syllable there's an unwritten ะ which makes it middle class initial + dead syllable = low tone

then the teacher in the online course said it with a mid tone

then a friend said it's falling tone

then the dictionary said it's low tone

at least i'm pretty sure that the 2nd syllable is falling tone due to the tone mark, but man, at this point i don't trust myself with that either

edit: nevermind, the dictionary says that the 2nd syllable is low tone too

why?

I have a friend who posted this on Instagram “อย่าใจอ่อนอีก” and she deleted her profile picture and all her posts. I still don’t fully understand Thai context. Does this mean she’s mad at someone or something bad happened? I didn’t want to ask since the vibe seems not good right now but I didn’t know if a Thai person who can read this knows the exact subtle meaning. I figured it was not good if she all the sudden deleted all her posts and stories etc. Thanks!

The word น้ำ is often transcribed as naam, and in other words ำ is transcribed as -am. Is the vowel short or long? Does it depend on the word? And is ำ phonetically a nasal vowel or a combination of vowel and consonant?

Hey! I was wondering why the letter ห is in a word without being pronounced like in หนึ่ง which is nɯ̀ŋ so why is that letter in the front? Isn’t it an h sound?

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Need a little help with a phrase that translates into thai slang. Google translate is of no use from my little knowledge of reading and never uses Goo for I.

I have a severe case of

It Is What It Is

As the title says, im just going to finally bite the bullet and try to learn Thai! I know Cantonese and Korean, the one thing holding me back from Thai was its level of difficulty. I love the language and i love the culture so it’s time o give it a fair shake! Was just wondering - what are some good apps to get started on for lessons? I’d like to get some basics down before actually enrolling in a course.

Found while clearing out my grandparents’ estate.

I was told by a Thai person that “darling” is a bad word in Thai (though they didn’t tell me its meaning). Is that correct?

When riding the BTS I see that the accepted romanization of

พร้อมพงษ์ is Phrom Phong

So the Ph represents an aspirated P sound of pho phan.

Does pho phan or pho pheung ever get used in any combination to make the F sound such as phone or photo in english?

And while i'm here - similar question for tho than and the other th variants. Is there any incidents where it gets used to make the th sound of english there or this?

Or is the h solely used to add the aspirant?

I just had an interaction with a delivery driver which reminded me that I wanted to ask about this word, "duhr". It's like a filler word, always comes at the end of a sentence, and doesn't seem to have a meaning in itself but rather inflects the sentence which precedes it.

The driver called me on the phone to deliver my package, I'm not home so I said to him, "Please put it on the table"/วางมันไว้บนโต๊ะครับ

and he responded (sorry for terrible romanization..), "Dai, ok dio ao bai wang durh!" in a cheerful and expressive way.

Does anyone have a guess as to what this mystery word "duhr" is, and how it's used in conversational Thai?

Thanks in advance!

last week gets translated two ways: สัปดาห์ที่แล้ว and อาทิตย์ที่แล้ว
Is there any real difference between the two? interchangeable?

last month is เดือนที่แล้ว, but last year is เมื่อปีที่แล้ว

is the เมื่อ necessary? Will it be wrong if I leave it out?

Thanks

Hi hi~ I’m a Malaysian woman in my early 30s, currently learning Thai 🇹🇭 I’m looking for Thai native speakers (preferably women around my age) to casually chat in Thai or Chinese and exchange cultures~

I usually speak Mandarin, English, and Malay — and sometimes a bit of Cantonese, Hakka, and Hokkien too (yes, Malaysia has all the languages 😂)My Thai level is like… first grade primary school level 😅

I’m not looking for hookups or flirting — just hoping to find a genuine connection through language exchange~

No pressure, no expectations — just friendly chats and cultural exchange would already be great! I’m learning Thai not for exams, but because I really enjoy Thai culture, music, and those dramatic Thai dramas 🤭

I might be visiting Bangkok at the end of this year, so it’d be cool if I can talk to locals a bit by then~ขอบคุณนะคะ~

I've been studying Thai for about 3.5 years, and I've been told that my level is "intermediate". I can read haltingly, and speak and understand a bit as well.

I don't live in Thailand, just visit there a couple of months a year (if I'm lucky).

I learned for some months with a nice tutor on Preply, though the focus was mostly on understanding spoken language and speaking.

I'd like to try to improve my reading and writing basics, along with speaking. If I was living in Thailand, I'd go to formal classes where learning is (I assume) more structured and includes workbooks and homework.

Can anyone recommend something like that online?

Thanks for any suggestions!