The book contains over 70 simple pictures, that enable you to instantly recognise the shape and sound of each thai symbol.
If you are able to memorise the following, you can memorise the thai alphabet:
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"After only an hour of reading, the Thai alphabet will begin to make sense – you’ll be able to identify the shape, sounds and class of the entire Thai alphabet. The memory system relies on simple images, that enable you to instantly visualize and remember the Thai symbols. Even the youngest of readers will be able to use the system, and have a good grasp of the alphabet in as little as 1 hour."
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The book is based on a core principle of memorization: find connections between the new information, and what you already know.
In this book, we have created pictures that will help you to instantly recall the shape and sound of the Thai letters with little effort.
Like scaffolding on a building, the system acts as a temporary support, to enable your mind to build a clear picture of the letters. This vastly improves your ability to memorize the letters.
Over time, you will automatically picture the letter, and hear the sound, without needing the stepping stone or scaffold, afforded by these images.
They help you overcome the primary obstacle in learning the letters: the abstract shapes and unfamiliar appearance. By associating these shapes and sounds, with familiar items, you will quickly recall the entire alphabet!
There are 44 consonants in the Thai alphabet, and 32 vowels. However, some of these vowels are just long and short versions of each other, so it is actually only necessary to learn around 20 different vowel shapes.
Thie may sound daunting – but carry on reading. We assure you that even the most casual of tourists will be easily able to learn these characters effortlessly.
1. Low (said in the lower part of your voice’s register) 2. Middle (said in the middle part of your register) 3. High (said in the higher part – as if you are calling someone at a distance) 4. Falling (like the word no , when saying oh no if you are disappointed) 5. Rising (like the tone used, when asking someone if they are coming along: coming? )
Thai consonants are broken into 3 groups known as classes: called low, middle and high for convenience. These names don’t mean that the syllable will be low, middle or high tone – the names of these groups might as well as be 1,2 and 3 – it’s just a way of separating the consonants into three groups.
The reason you need to know the class, is because the class affects how the syllable is pronounced, so when you learn the thai consonant, you will have to recall both its sound and its class.
The rules for determining the tone of a syllable are given in the Tones Section, at the end of the book, but we’ll give a quick example here, to give you an idea of why you must learn the classes:
Example 1: When a High Class consonant with the sound s , is followed by a dead-sound (ie a sound that ends quickly), like at or ad , then the tone of the syllable is Low.
Example 2: When a High Class consonant with the sound s , is followed by an open sound (a sound that lasts longer, like a long vowel or a nasal sound like n or m that kind of hums on), then the Tone of the syllable is a Rising Tone!
Seems complicated, but the technique will enable you to remember these rules in seconds.
For now just be aware that you’ll need to remember the class as well as the sounds of the thai letters – easy really, with the special technique you’ll learn about below.
For now, let’s just concentrate on learning the sound of each letter, and its class.
Certain Thai letters also have different sounds, depending on whether the letter appears at the start or end of the syllable.
So in summary, when you look at a Thai Letter, you must be able to recall three things:
1. its sound when its at the start of a syllable 2. its sound at the end of a syllable 3. its class.
The memory technique which we’ll use to learn the alphabet, is best illustrated with an example.
Take a look at the thai letter below on the left, and notice how it resembles the image to the right:
This image encodes all the information that you need to recall, when looking at this Thai letter.
1. Its sound is Ch (chariot), when at the start of a syllable 2. Its class is High, symbolised by the high mountainous terrain in the background
To help you memorise the classes, we represent the three different classes, with different backgrounds: 1. High class consonants have a mountainous background 2. Middle class consonants have an urban background 3. Low class consoants have a sea level, sea-side background – simple and logical!
1. You look at the Thai letter and automatically think of the image. 2. The easy-to-remember title will spring to mind and tell you the sounds. 2. The image’s background will tell you the class (low, middle, high) Easy and remarkably effective!
The key to…
Learn the Thai Alphabet in Minutes. Learn Thai Font, Thai Symbols and Tones, for Travelling in Thailand
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