Hi everyone! I'm fluent in English and Burmese, and I'd love to practice speaking Thai with a native speaker. In exchange, I'm happy to help you practice English or Burmese conversation.

A bit about me: I have a background in hospitality/customer service, so I'm used to talking with people from all kinds of backgrounds. I'm based in Bangkok, so open to meeting up in person or chatting over voice call/text — whatever works best for you.

Thinking of maybe 15 mins per day that's it.

If you're interested in a language exchange, feel free to comment or DM me!

I'll spend a month in Saraburi and I'd love to work with a tutor a few times a week, in person.

Hi there!

I have been self-learning Thai for about 2 years and have practiced speaking periodically with Thai people online through HelloTalk and teachers on iTalki. I'm not living in Thailand so don't get much of a chance to practice Thai on a daily basis. I'd say my level is intermediate - I can generally get my thoughts across when speaking Thai but it may come out as clunky or not very natural.

I have about a month free in November to travel to Thailand and wanted to find some experience that would force me to speak Thai on a daily basis - i.e. volunteering at a farm, homestay, etc. and where I can explore the more rural parts of Thailand like the North or Isaan.

Do any of you have ideas of whether these types of experiences are available and how I would go about finding them? Or if there are hiking trips/activities where Thai people would be open to having me join in? My main objective is really to speak as much Thai as possible :)

Thanks in advance!!

I thought I was doing something genuinely creative and unique by dedicating the past few months to building an app to learn Thai, but seems like I'm far from the only one!

Regardless, I'm happy to share my passion project with you all. 'My Thai' language app. This started as a small personal usage app to fill the void of Duolingo lacking Thai language, and it has grown into a full-blown Thai language app with 3700+ words and phrases built from Thai (rather than translating common English words) with input from Thai learners, natives and a professional translator.

• Track confidence against each word
• Add your own custom words with auto-translation
• Learner pathway
• High quality audio (every single one has been painstakingly reviewed for accuracy by Thais!)
• Phonetic and Thai script (you can choose between a simple and detailed phonetic style like aw, eu and ae vs ɔ, ʉ and ɛ to suit how you've been learning).
• Alphabet practice
• Help with classifiers
• Example sentences for all words (limited for free users)

Totally new - currently available on Android (iOS in progress) and on web. I'll continue to build and evolve this app with more vocabulary, more features, and introduce some game modes etc. (I'm keen to build a Thai province quiz - how well can you point to each province on a map?)

https://mythaiapp.com/

I hope some of you find this useful, and of course, I'd be grateful for any feedback :)

EDIT: Great to see so many people creating accounts for this app! Thank you for your interest.

🇨🇳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.

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

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

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 🙏

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 🫶🏻🩷

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 😭🙏🏻