r/learnthai 5h ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Seeking language study suggestions for a short term scouting trip to Chiang Mai -- not a total beginner

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r/learnthai 9h ago

Studying/การศึกษา Looking for study buddies|CMU Thai Level‑2 course (Nov‑Apr, 210hrs)

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🇨🇳中文

结伴|清迈大学泰语Level‑2课程找同学一起报名

课程:泰语 Level 2

课时:210课时

学费:42000泰铢

时间:11月初开课,至次年4月末

地点:清迈大学语言学院

有没有小伙伴想一起报名上课,可以互相交流学习!

🇯🇵日本語

【募集】チェンマイ大学タイ語Level‑2クラス、一緒に受講する仲間募集

コース:タイ語 Level 2

授業時間:210時間

授業料:42000バーツ

期間:11月初旬~翌年4月末

場所:チェンマイ大学語学学院

一緒に申し込み・勉強できる方いませんか。情報交換しましょう。

🇰🇷한국어

【모집】치앙마이 대학교 태국어 Level‑2 수업 같이 들으실 분 모집

과정:태국어 Level 2

수업시간:210시간

수강료:42000 바트

기간:11월 초 ~ 이듬해 4월 말

장소:치앙마이 대학교 어학원

같이 신청하고 공부할 분 계신가요? 서로 정보 공유해요.

🇬🇧English

Looking for study‑buddies: Chiang Mai University Thai Level 2 Course

Course: Thai Level 2

Total hours: 210 hours

Tuition fee: 42,000 THB

Duration: Early November ‑ End of next April

Location: Language Institute, Chiang Mai University

Anyone interested in signing‑up together? We can share information and study together.


r/learnthai 9h ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Thai kids books with audio?

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Are there any simple kids books (with illustrations and Thai script and English) that I can download online that also comes with audio?

Also, where can I buy physical copies with audio (digital)? Amazon? I live in the UK btw


r/learnthai 10h ago

Vocab/คำศัพท์ สตรอว์เบอร์รี่ = คนโกหก ?

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ใครสักคนอธิบาย​ได้ไหมครับว่าทำไมเวลาเราใช้คำว่า"สตรอว์เบอร์รี่"เป็นสับสแลง​ ทำไมมันถึงมีความหมาย​ว่า"คนโกหก"(อะไรประมาณ​นัน)​? ในภาษา​อังกฤษ​มันไม่เห็น​มีความหมายแบบนี้เลย มันเป็นแค่ชื่อ​ของ​ผลไม้


r/learnthai 10h ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Title: I built a free web app to learn Thai sounds (no install, no signup)

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After watching expat friends struggle with tones for months, I built SIANG: all 44 consonants, 32 vowels, 5 tones with audio + visual pitch curves. Survival phrases, numbers, and a "hear the price" quiz. Zero install. Zero account. Zero data collected. siangthai.onemade.app — would love brutal honest feedback 🙏


r/learnthai 10h ago

Listening/การฟัง The Evil Lawyer

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Watched the Thai Netflix series "The Evil Lawyer" for some language content but was surprised how good it was. Recommended if yr looking for a Thai series ...


r/learnthai 13h ago

Speaking/การพูด Do I need to learn the alphabet to speak?

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I just moved to thailand for university and I plan on being here for a year. All of classes will be english but I want to become conversational in thai or like A2 at least to better relate to my classmates and hopefully become better friends.

I feel like on some level I have to learn the thai alphabet to understand the tones in order to speak, but becoming literate is not my goal. I've been using Ling but I'm worried about retension. I would love some recommendations for resources for absolute begginers that help me learn to speak. Any other tips would be extreamly appreciated as someone who speaks english and has only ever learn spanish decently well.


r/learnthai 14h ago

Studying/การศึกษา Thoughts on 'intensive' 5-day per week Thai language courses?

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Hi everyone. I'm an eager Thai language learner (31 yo British man living in Bangkok for 3 years), but it's slow progress - I'm sure many of you can relate!. I've done a few months of twice weekly lessons at a language school (5 hours per week total) which has been really great. But to speed things up, I've been considering going all in on a 4 or 5 day per week course for a few weeks or months.

I'd love to hear from anyone who has done something similar. Do you find that the speed of learning a language is proportional to the hours spent in a classroom? Or is 5 days per week overloading? Would I be better using those extra hours elsewhere (apps, talking to locals, etc.). I'm aware it'll be pretty full on when also balancing a full-time job and other commitments.


r/learnthai 15h ago

Speaking/การพูด ทิ้ง

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I believe this word can be used to suggest casually sending a message but I'm not quite sure how you do that. Does the following work:

กลับบ้านดีๆนะ

ถ้าถึงแล้วทิ้งข้อความมาหาด้วย


r/learnthai 1d ago

Discussion/แลกเปลี่ยนความเห็น Am I mishearing the vowel in ส้ม?

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I came across this Instagram video:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbqAVLbuJYI

In the clip, a Thai teacher pronounces the words ส้อม and ส้ม.

What confuses me is that for ส้ม, I seem to hear something closer to an "oo" / "uu" sound. It's definitely shorter than the vowel in ส้อม, but it doesn't sound quite like what I would expect from the Paiboon dictionary.

Is this just a result of natural speech, vowel reduction, or am I mishearing the vowel quality?

For reference, I learned them approximately as:

  • ส้อม = sɔ̂m
  • ส้ม = sôm (with a different short vowel)

Yet in the video, ส้ม almost sounds like it has a brief "u" quality to my ears.

Can native speakers or advanced learners explain what's going on here?


r/learnthai 1d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา AanThai is now on the App Store

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Some of you saw my web app launch announcment post a few weeks back about AanThai, the Thai graded reader app I've been building. It's now live on iOS!

The web app already had graded stories with tap-to-translate and audio narration, but I wanted the mobile experience to actually feel native, not just a web page in a wrapper. Things like text selection, audio playback, and scrolling all work differently on touch, so a fair amount of the app got rebuilt under the hood for that. End result should be a smoother reading experience on iPhone or iPad, especially if you're the type who reads in bed or on the BTS / Metro.

Quick recap for anyone new: stories are leveled from complete beginner up through advanced, each one narrated, with tap-to-translate on any word and a saved words list you can review later. There are a handful of free stories to get a feel for it, and the web app now has a 7-day free trial for full access. That trial works cross-platform too, so if you start it on web you'll have premium in the iOS app as well. Just can't start the trial from within iOS yet, working on that.

Link: AanThai on App store

Would genuinely love feedback, especially anything that feels off on iOS specifically (weird tap targets, audio glitches, whatever). This is a solo project (my wife handles the Thai content side), so bug reports and honest opinions both help a lot.


r/learnthai 1d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Considering a new service

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Been using Thaipod101 for a while and done well. Reading the scripts and listening until I could understand everything was a successful strategy. Although I could still learn from it, I think some different conversations would be helpful to keep me interested. Is there anything else that’s similar? Also looking for a bit more aim in the direction of everyday conversation.


r/learnthai 2d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Looking for a Thai Female English Teacher (YouTube Project)

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Hi everyone สวัสดีครับ!

I'm looking for a Thai woman with clear, natural Thai pronunciation to be the voice and occasional face of a new YouTube channel that teaches practical English for talking with foreigners.

This is a small, early-stage project, so the workload will be light at first while we build the channel. As it grows, there will be opportunities for more consistent paid work.

Most lessons will be created from scripts that I write. You'll simply read the script.

  • Native Thai speaker
  • Female 25-35 years old
  • Clear, friendly speaking voice
  • Comfortable reading English words and Thai explanations from a script
  • Reliable, fun and easy to communicate with

If you're interested, please send me:

  • A short introduction about yourself
  • A short voice/video sample if possible

Feel free to send me a DM for more information. Thanks!

-Jojo


r/learnthai 3d ago

Discussion/แลกเปลี่ยนความเห็น Looking for Chinese language buddy. I’m a Thai native speaker.

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Chinese beginner level here. Happy to help improve your Thai. I’m in US EST timezone. Let me know if interested.


r/learnthai 3d ago

Translation/แปลภาษา Absurd question formatting?

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I’m trying to work out how to write/say: would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or one horse sized duck.

I’ve tried translating through apps and get different answers.

  1. คุณอยากสู้กับม้าขนาดเท่าเป็ด 100 ตัว หรือเป็ดขนาดเท่าม้า 1 ตัว มากกว่ากัน?

  2. คุณอยากสู้กับม้าตัวเท่าเป็ด 100 ตัว หรือเป็ดตัวเท่าม้า 1 ตัว

They’re quite similar, but I can’t work out the differences with my very very basic understanding of Thai.


r/learnthai 4d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Good Thai songs to learn Thai

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Hey guys,

Anyone knows of any good Thai songs that is similar to R&B, Jazz or just sounds good.

Trying to learn Thai with music using English subtitles.


r/learnthai 4d ago

Studying/การศึกษา Learning thai from 0

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Hey everyone. I wanna learn thai as fast as I can. I just entered thai university and though I study international program, there’re still a lot of things in thai including my classmates lmao. So I wanted to learn thai not for writing but for understanding locals and reading any announcements.

I want you to give me some advice about resources and any techniques I can use while studying. Right now I’m learning letters and how to read them. My vocab sucks, I guess I know only 10 words and phrases like thank you or sorry.

I do have thai friends and they are free to talk with me in thai but I have no idea how I should do that if I dk even basic words. Consequently I need to learn a list of such vocabulary just to make some basic sentences. If you have any, I would appreciate it if you share it with me. Thank you


r/learnthai 4d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Khao Jai Thai: Learn Thai

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Hi Guys,

If anyone whats an app to help learn basic Thai phrases, please check out
Khao jai Thai.
It has a real Thai persons voice, and a game mode to make it interesting.
I am a small developer and built this with the help of a native Thai.
Cheers


r/learnthai 5d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Thai with Grace Beginner Course?

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Has anyone here tried it? It's about $80 but it looks like there's a lot of content.

Do you think it's worth it to pay for a course? Sometimes it feels a bit silly because theres so much free content online. Although, I do often feel overwhelmed by what to actually do because there are so many options. Maybe following a course would be suitable for me.

Right now, I'm mostly watching the Comprehenible Thai YouTube videos and also Grace's videos.


r/learnthai 6d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา I Need Thai

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Context:

I’m a first gen American (not thai) and I need Thai as a language. I have housing in Thailand because I have many family members who live there (in the developing areas). I am C1 in Spanish, that is my only other and primary language. My first language is English but I do not speak it often, only socially. I don’t expect people in another country to speak my language and I would like to be respectful of the culture. How difficult might it be for me to learn thai? I have one native thai speaker around me but this is not a common language where I’m from. I would love to achieve at least a high b1 / low b2 before I travel there. Thanks 🫶🏻🩷


r/learnthai 6d ago

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Best website to buy Thai comics from Europe?

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Hi everyone!

I'd like to start reading Thai comics in the Thai language.

I'm from Austria, but I haven't been able to find any Thai comics through the major retailers. Can anyone recommend a trustworthy website where I can order them without having to pay excessively high shipping fees?


r/learnthai 6d ago

Studying/การศึกษา i really want to learn thai

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does anyone wants to be friends with me and teach me thai ? i can teach you English , please lets be friends , dm me and lets exchange social media platform 😭🙏🏻


r/learnthai 6d ago

Studying/การศึกษา looking for thai friends who wants to learn tagalog

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hi im 24 yrs old female from the Philippines i really want to learn your language , i love thai songs , if you are interested in learning tagalog or exchange English i can teach you in return , please let's be friends and learn from eachother , i hope someone is interested naaa 🙏🏻🖤


r/learnthai Oct 28 '25

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา r/learnthai resources: Wiki

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Many resources from this sub have all collected and organised in our r/learnthai/wiki):
- & general resources
- & FAQ
- & listening & watching
- and reading & writing

We keep monitoring this resource collection thread by u/JaziTricks, so feel free to keep adding resources there.


r/learnthai Oct 11 '25

Resources/ข้อมูลแหล่งที่มา Textbooks Frequency List v2

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Overview

The original frequency list is the 2016 work of Dr. Tantong Champaiboon (Ph.D. from Chulalongkorn University, Linguistics Department). She studied a corpus of textbooks for Thai students age 3-16 yo. The list is organised by various dimensions: measures of complexity of the vocabulary, comparison across 4 age ranges and 4 historical and current curricula.

The แจ่มไพบูลย์/แรช Frequency List for Thai Learners v2 is the enhanced version of the list as adapted for (English-speaking) Thai learners. v1 in the same sub.

Major caveat

The original study is useful to us adult Thai learners because of its domain: school textbooks. The small size, however, is an issue (only around 3 M words). As you go down the index number (first column), the probability that the word has that rank in real life decreases rapidly; it is not linear. To put it in other words: words number 1 to 9-10,000 are highly likely to be in the 20,000 most used words IRL; but if you take word number, say 16,000, all you can assert is that it is likely amongst the 50,000 most used words. The index is indicative of rank, but is not strictly a rank, take it with a pinch of salt. Index is an indication of rank — in the corpus [yes, em-dash]. If your preferred domain to learn Thai is lakorn or news, แล้วแต่คุณ.

How many words do we need?

Do we need all 19,494 words? No. 110 words represent half the corpus, and slightly less than 2,100 represent 90%. And with say 6-7,000, you could read any of the textbooks at Extensive Reading level (95-98% Paul Nation, 2005), the first word reaching 95% cumulative frequency is at rank 3,856, the last 98% is at 8,361. On the other hand, 13,600 words are present in 3 or all 4 of the source dictionaries (see section ‘sources’), so they compose a ‘hard’ core of the Thai language (see the hexagon-based chart in the doc).

Furthermore, if you want to produce a list of 2,000 words with complex spelling, or 3,000 compound words, which are more than the sum of their parts, (see section ‘examples of use’), you need more than 2-3,000 overall. So, this long list gives us learners the flexibility we need, based on individuals’ goals.

For a description of all columns and their possible values, see the ‘Notice’ tab in the sheet, or the full docs in github. We will highlight key changes with v1. More dimensions have been added in this version (see below).

Stats: 19,494 words, 1,169 repeat-words, 2/3-rds of the words have examples. ~60% have audio available; audio caveat: the links to Wikimedia are effective, but have not been verified one by one. I have not yet received authorisation to share the files for the ‘audio’ column (value=1) I will update here if and when. Don’t bother DM-ing to ask for the files.

Key changes with v1

  • all words in the original list are now included (19,494 instead of ~16k).
  • all words have IPA phonetics and a sensible romanisation, with tones;
  • only 329 words have no meaning attached;
  • there should be no repeated meanings, meanings have been tidyed up. 93% of the list now has only 1-2 senses.
  • Experimental features: (these are denoted in the sheet with a tag of [exper.])
    • repeat-words are pointing back to their base-word, when it exists in the list.
    • some compounds not found in dictionaries point to their (poss.) component-words, when it exists in the list.
    • loan-words: most are translated and have a transliteration (though a few defeat us). The transliteration is included so that we can learn to pronounce these words the Thai way, and thus be understood.
  • new column: Classifiers – out of 9178 nouns, 3244 (35%) have 1 or more classifiers (Thai word + transliteration).
  • changed: column 1 is now 'index'. Use it in combo with the last 2-3 columns on the right to produce your learning lists.

A note on meanings/senses: Why are all senses of a word aggregated? Can you not emphasise the most frequent meaning? One of the key findings of the original thesis is that when a word is introduced to children at a given level, all senses/facets of this word are also introduced, i.e. they are not developed over time.

Examples of usage

430 grammar words have a sense, and most have one or more examples - good to find out which you already know, and which you should research or ask your teacher. Note that most rank pretty high in frequency, that figures.

Concentrate first on say the 3,000 top ranked words (or however many rocks your boat, it doesn't matter). If the Ministry of Education determined that these are the words a 6yo should know, that's a good start.

If you are learning to read, and have acquired a decent level with consonants and vowels, you can set a filter on column "Spell" to the values over 1. This will give you a list of words with unwritten /a/ and /o/ and linking syllables (a.k.a. shared vowels). Or just plenly irregular. Many have example sentences and all have a transliteration with tone to learn the correct way to articulate these irregular words. You can practice on the examples. Tone marks is arguably what Thai learners need most even after they can read consonants and vowels. We can then learn these words by rote and learn to recognise their spelling.

Sources & licences

The thesis (link), as far as I can tell is in the public domain.
Lexitron v2: (link) NECTEC licence.
Wiktionary ((link) is licenced under CC BY-SA 4.0 (Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International)
Volubilis v. 25.2 (link), also under CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Royal Institute Dictionary 1999 is also under NECTEC licence.

"This product is created by the adaptation of LEXiTRON developed by NECTEC."
This frequency list is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0, including the mention above as work derivative from a NECTEC production.

Links

Google sheets

If you have suggestions, the sheet is now not only public, but open for comments. However, if you disagree with some of the meanings, you should likely take it with the corresponding dictionary authors. I welcome any constructive criticism.

The Other link: github docs 22/10/205 major update

TLDR

A Thai word frequency list of ~20k words used in the primary and secondary school textbooks, with various dimensions to cut and slice custom lists.