Archive for June, 2011

Learn Thai – Sà-rà /aa/ (สระ -า) »

By on Jun 26, 2011 in Learning Thai, Your Great Adventure, Read | 0 Comments

HowtoReadThai.com has a new post for those learning Thai. This post is about one of the long vowels, click here to read the post.

Learn Thai – short vowel: ไม้หันอากาศ – Mái Hǎn-aa-gàat »

By on Jun 21, 2011 in Read | 0 Comments

There is another Thai vowel that makes the short /a/ sound, this one is called ไม้หันอากาศ – Mái Hǎn-aa-gàat. It has a whole set of rules  to differentiate it from the same sounding สระ -ะ. Click here to view more.

How to use Sà-rà /a/ (สระ -ะ) »

By on Jun 12, 2011 in Read | 0 Comments

If you want to know how this short vowel is used, head on over to How to Read Thai.com.

CELTA Course is finished »

By on Jun 10, 2011 in Misc | 0 Comments

Well the CELTA course is finally over. 19 weeks of hard work and all is finished now. Well done to everyone on the course – all passed which is good news. We all have different plans so wherever all my fellow trainee/colleagues end up, I wish you all the best. Russ

How to Read Thai »

By on Jun 7, 2011 in Read | 0 Comments

I was told the other day that the market is ‘saturated’ with books about learning Thai and I have to be honest, there is a lot of material out there. There are so many that want to teach people to speak Thai that sometimes it’s hard to choose (hey, I could recommend one However, there [...]