Thai Language Textbook for Foreigner©

Commission on Higher Education (CHE) has operated Thai Studies Project since 2001. CHE in coporated with Chiang Mai University had developed Thai Language Textbook for Foreigner© which consist of 2 parts. The first part is Listening and Speaking lesson and the second part is Reading and Writting lesson.

Commission on Higher Education published the textbook and provide it to every university. However, students can download it in this page.

  1. Preface
  2. Learning Thai Efficiency
  3. Introduction to Thai Language
  4. Content
  5. Part I: Speaking and Listening
    1. Lesson 1: Hello
    2. Lesson 2: How are you?
    3. Lesson 3: What is this?
    4. Lesson 4: Where do you stay?
    5. Lesson 5: Members of family
    6. Lesson 6: Eating Thai Food
    7. Lesson 7: Tastes of Thai Food
    8. Lesson 8: Beverages
    9. Lesson 9: Eating Noodles
    10. Lesson 10: Eating Thai Fruits
    11. Lesson 11: Eating Indigenous Thai Food
    12. Lesson 12: What day is it today?
    13. Lesson 13: What time is it?
    14. Lesson 14: What is this month?
    15. Lesson 15: Go shopping
    16. Lesson 16: What color do you want?
    17. Lesson 17: Where is the book?
    18. Lesson 18: Where is the post office?
    19. Lesson 19: Travel
    20. Lesson 20: Body
    21. Lesson 21: Visiting a doctor
    22. Lesson 22: Telephone
    23. Lesson 23: What do you like to do?
    24. Lesson 24: How is he?
    25. Lesson 25: See you again
  6. Part II: Reading and Writing
    1. Lesson 1: Introduction to the Thai alphabet
    2. Lesson 2: Spelling Thai
    3. Lesson 3: High and Low Consonants
    4. Lesson 4: Live and Dead Syllables
    5. Lesson 5: Reading Pseudo Cluster 1
    6. Lesson 6: Reading Pseudo Cluster 2
    7. Lesson 7: ã and the Sound Killer
    8. Lesson 8: ÃÃ and Final Ã
    9. Lesson 9: Reading loan words
    10. Lesson 10: Irregular reading and writing signs
  7. Bibliography
  8. How to look up words
  9. Vocabulary