Thai for Communication II
Southeast Asia Programme
Duration: 23 January- 10 April 2019 (30 hours)
Time: Wednesday 9.00-12.00 Hrs.
Place: Graduate School, Chulalongkorn University
Objectives
1. Foreign students can write in Thai and understand the Thai script
system
2. Foreign students can understand and communicate basic topics
3. Foreign students learn Thai cultures from the lessons
4. Foreign students can continue Thai classes at higher levels
Content Thai script system and basic conversation in daily life
23 January 2019 Introduction to Thai consonant and vowel system
Introduction to the 3 groups of consonant alphabets
Introduction to the vowels system and alphabets
Introduction to the tone systems
ʔàksɔ̌ ɔn klaaŋ : the general group
Live and dead syllables
30 January 2019 Practicum ʔàksɔ̌ ɔnklaaŋ
Full cluster consonants
Live syllables: simple and non-simple
Dead syllables: simple and non simple
Changed forms of some vowels
13 February 2019 ʔàksɔ̌ ɔn sǔuŋ : live and dead syllable
Practicum
Conversation
20 February 2019 ʔàksɔ̌ ɔn tam : pair and single groups
Live and dead syllables
Conversation
27 February 2019 Overall review
Conversation
13 March 2019 Semi cluster consonants
Practicum
/h/ + single low groups with 3 tones
Conversation
20 March 2019 Foreign words in Thai
Pali and sanskrit
- รร - / ฤ
silent alphabets in some words
silent marker -์
Practicum
Conversation
27 March 2019 Compound words
Complex words
Foreign compound words
3 April 2019 Reading I
Conversation
10 April 2019 Overall review
End of course