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.
