Beginners’ Thai
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Beginners’ Thai
Beginners’ Thai
Perfect for absolute beginners, travellers and the culturally curious, Beginners' Thai covers the most common and practical everyday situations. With easy-to-follow, bite-sized lessons in the book and 2 hours of audio online, you'll start speaking, listening and reading in Thai right away!
Learn to speak, read, write and understand Thai!
Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship—whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Thai will help you to:
- Communicate naturally in everyday situations.
- Build your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice activities.
- Understand and pronounce Thai easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the Thai alphabet.
- Remember what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.
Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.
Is this course for me?
Beginners' Thai is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Thai. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.
Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Thai.
Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 85 years.
Series: Teach Yourself Beginners’ Language Learning Series
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399821698
Publisher: John Murray Press
Format: Multiple-component retail product
Date Published: 22 April 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Illustration: 20+ Photographs and illustrations
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 160
About the Author
David Smyth spent several years teaching at universities in Thailand before taking up a post as Senior Lecturer in Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
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