Learning Thai from scratch - Making a language learning plan! 🇹🇭
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- Here's how I start learning a language from scratch. I have decided to take up learning Thai again! Follow along as I show you how I plan my studies and start learning from zero.
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
00:44 My current Thai level
01:07 Finding resources
01:28 My notebook and listing some resources
02:38 Scheduling time in my calendar
03:12 Creating my language learning schedule
03:46 Exploring around and learning the alphabet
04:47 Using UA-cam to learn consonants
06:21 Level test (I forgot to add the footage for this, sorry lol)
06:29 Using a word list to shadow
09:03 Outro and my plan ahead
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"See how easy that was?"
"No..."
lmao I feel you. Thank you for sharing your journey with a new language from scratch like this. It gives me motivation to tackle a language where I'm a beginner too.
I loved that comment!!! 😂
That was my favorite part! I always talk back to the videos.
Hey Lindie, i'm your fan. What about learn portuguese language? Brazil has a lot of tongs and dialects that could be very funny to learn. Also, you can watch a lot of things in portuguese and talk with a lot of people and different identities. Brazil is a country different from the others. Could be a great idea. See you! Até Mais!
🤣🤣 I lost it
this cracked me up. Sooo meeeee looool
I was studying mandarin and korean until last year, but depression hit hard this year so I wasn't studying anything. This month I got interest in start japanese from scratch since the last time I study was when I was 12 years old. But I was a bit hesitant because I didn't get to fluency neither in mandarin nor in korean - but I decided that since it's my life, I'm allowed to study whatever i want to whenever i want to KOSKAPSK - Glad to see you're doing better! ♥
Best wishes for you. May everything work out.
which kind of use book,website or youtube channel for korean ? and in fact to be passion and just keep try it.when i was start to learn english language very nervous and angry because i didn't can speak fluently or understand anything but i try more more so my english not bad now so you are very young now and try to change your process ,look where are lack and start again
What is "KOSKAPSK"...?
@@ysfmusic9821 i can really recommend the youtube channel Talk to me in Korean, they also have a website, podcasts and many many books
@win-eo2jq its ok to talk breaks from language if your feeling overwhelmed
Hi Lindie, I've been learning Thai for a couple of months already and It's so fun, please don't give up I'm rooting for you. I know there are so my things to learn as a beginner especially reading which can feel overwhelming due to the number of rules in tone and writing but I promise it's so fun and worth it. I started with Thai pod for the alphabet as well. However, I then decided to take classes on Itaki to properly learn how to read as there are so many things like tips and tricks that a native Thai speaker can give you that many videos do not mention or you would have to discover on your own and may not be obvious and make Thai a bit more overwhelming due to the limited resources that may be out there. I'd like to give you a couple of tips as Thai beginner and wish you the best of luck in your Thai studies สู้ๆ. Please do not overwhelm yourself you can do this!!!
TIPS :)
1) To be able to properly pronounce you need to be able to read and recognize all letters, therefore in my opinion, I believe learning the whole alphabet along with names of tone marks is the 1st thing to tackle.
2) Thai romanization to English is honestly one of the worst I’ve seen. I recommend you instead create your own sound assimilations with other languages. As a Spanish and English speaker and Korean and French learner, I have been able to recognize some of these sounds and translate some of these languages’ sounds into Thai (especially the vowels)
3) Once you have mastered the alphabet you should move then to learning the class of each consonant. Ore you could also do this at the same time you learn all consonants but sometimes it may be a little overwhelming due to the number of consonants
4) After you have mastered these you will be able to learn the tone rules much faster as depending on the class of the consonant and type of vowel these change. It’s all about consonant class + ending sound. (just as a heads up, the tone mark overwrites the tone rules)
5) You’d need to get familiar with the many different ways that that can be written (different fonts) that are extremely common. For example: “น” can be written as “u” in a modern and quite a common font (I left a link to help with that in the resources below)
I’d like to share with you some of the best resources I have found on the internet that has helped me improve much faster overall.
1) www.thai2english.com/ (The best and my personal favourite, I swear this is the one!! and I feel so lucky to have found this resource and would love to share it with you and the language learning community) This is a Thai English and vice versa dictionary but most importantly if you are still not able to recognize a Tone you can just type the world and it will help you identify the tone, it does have romanization but I just ignore that and use what I need. Please explore the many uses of this website. You can see how excited I am about this website hehe
2) rapidlearnthai.com/understanding-thai-modern-fonts/ (for modern font Thai)
3) ua-cam.com/users/BananaThaiSchool (she’s so good :) so much content to learn and her explanations are amazing)
4) ua-cam.com/users/SpeakThaiPossibleWithNaamfeatured (she has Thai tone drills and explains these very well)
This is very useful. Thanks for posting this comment . ขอบคุณค่ะ
Thanks for sharing
@@LangXplorer I agree :D
@@nicoleraheem1195 ☺
@@naria2224 😊I'm glad I can help
As Thai, I can feel your struggle 😂 our language system is all over the place we have too many alphabet, vowels and the most difficult things is the sound but I have to say you doing great on the pronunciation keep up the good work👍🏻
Be happy that the alphabet isn't as large as Chinese or Japanese, also visually isn't as confusing as Arabic 😅
Problem is that that’s a lie… ฃ ฅ ฒ ฑ, ฌ, ฆ. It’s there to cause confusion because either they don’t use it at all, appears on only 1-3 rarely used words or only used in religious settings
We’re left with about 25 letters which is useful
I started learning Thai four days ago and this video comes out, amazing timing
Wow!! Happy Thai journey to us!!
started learning five days ago was so weirded out when this video showed up
Thanks for wanna learn our language😊 and keep fighting😼
I started learning thai back in late 2019 bit I was not consistent 🥲 I've been dropping and coming back to it all throughout these more than 2 years.
What helped me is that I learned the Thai alphabet entirely right from the beginning ( with the YT channel Kruu Waree all about Thai). I liked this Thai song called Everything (Thuk yang) by Scrubb and I used to copy it down every day for fun and I wrote the alphabet every morning too. I also learned the reading rules from the start. It paid off because now I don't need transliteration to read Thai anymore.
Unfortunately I focused to much on the writing system and didn't practice my speaking/listening enough.😩
Now I can write and read but I can't speak. 🥲
I'm better at listening though because I watch Thai series a lot😅
i really want to learn the thai alphabet but everytime i actually start, i get so easily discouraged :')
watching series indeed help a lot with oral comprehension and learning words, thats how i know all my thai from (thanks to bls iyky lol)
Hi Lindie,
As someone who lived and worked in Thailand and learned the language through immersion and UA-cam, its so exciting to see you doing self study of the language on your own! I found that BYU channel has some great videos for commonly used phrases that you will actually use in Thailand. I found that listening a bunch really helped me with tones.
I know it can be difficult in the beginning but I found Thailand and the Thai language to have been such a blessing in my life. Thai people are so sweet and lovely and you can make some wonderful friends when you are able to communicate. I spent a month with a 70 year old Thai lady traveling together and meeting all her family and exploring the southern part of Thailand staying with locals because I was able to speak Thai
As a Thai, I can affirm that it's a hard language indeed - I'm still learning! 😂 Mad respect to all of you out there.
5:14 " See how easy that was?" "No" My life in 2 phrases
As a subscriber and Thai learner myself, seeing this video makes me so happy!
Thailand not only has such beautiful language but also wonderful culture. There are also very well resources on the internet, such as Thai dramas and Thai novels. It is not easy, but definitely worth it. I can not wait to see you enjoy this language! Have fun, Lindie!
There are so many great fun Thai TV series, too! I literally was off work sick today and rewatched Theory of Love (available free on UA-cam with subtitles) in its entirety, it's one of my favourite Thai dramas. I really recommend it to anyone!
I started learning Thai about 6 months ago :) For the alphabet I used Thaipod101 in the beginning but for me the book „Read Thai in 10 Days“ worked so well!
I did not manage the whole book in 10 days, but the way the letters were grouped and everything was explained worked so well for my brain.
For tones I now have a little image in my head!
As for Tones, BananaThai has a good explanation about Tones that she just uploaded recently on Thai :D
Anyway, excited that you started Thai as well!
I am Thai and I’m glad to hear that you are re-learning it. I wish you good success for this challenging journey!
สวัสดีครับ ยินดีที่ได้รู้จักคุณ (yin dee tee dai ruu jak khun) ผมชื่อเบียร์ครับ ขอให้คุณประสบความสำเร็จในการเรียนภาษาไทยครับ ✌️😊
Hi Lindes I'm Native thai speaker...I love love your inspiration and how I see you as my idol now. I'm trying so hard to learn Korean and Japanese right now. Nice to meet you♥️😀
I'm such a sucker for languages with interesting scripts, like Persian and Korean! Thai looks so loopy, I love it!!
También te recomiendo "Write thai in 10 days" y el libro de "Easy Thai". Los dos me han hecho entender mejor cómo funciona el tailandés y la gramática básica que necesitaba para ir aprendiendo.
This was really interesting, thank you for sharing.
These are wonderful news! Good luck, Lindie🤗
You are doing great. Look forward to seeing your continued process soon.
That's amazing! Please, more like this content!
OMG! I was waiting for this 😍! I'm learning Thai too ❤️
Yeyyyy! Been learning Thai for 2 years now. Now I have more reasons to look forward to your videos 🥹 This journey is exciting!!!
I love this video Lindie. Please make more as you progress
I loved walking with you in your first steps of learning. This was so helpful. Your videos always are! Thank you, and good luck studying!
Good luck on your journey! I can't wait to see more videos about it, its so encouraging ❤️
I'm so excited to follow your journey! 😊 I am also re-learning Thai and I'm happy to have some company learning
This video was amazing Lindie. It was so good seeing you at the start of a language journey. It makes me feel much better about how I start out. :)
You’re making fun & funny learning Thai - love it.
I love seeing how you approach learning a language from scratch! Excited to follow this journey 😍
I'll be excited to see how far you get! I really like Thai (and Thai food), so I'm happy to see you learn it. :)
i love videos like this where i can just see somebody who's really good at learning languages go about their thing, thanks Lindie 💕
Mucho ánimo, Lindie 💪Eres un ejemplo a seguir 😊
Yay happy to see you pick up a good challenge with Thai. Curious to see your journey and how it compares with Chinese as a tonal language.
What a coincide! I was also thinking about continuing to learn Thai today.
Yeahhh, FINALLY!!! 💗💗💗
As a Thai, this makes me so happy! I hope you enjoy the learning process💗
Thanks for making this video Lindie, you are always so helpful with learning tips and you are so inspiring! I feel like you always reinvigorate my desire to learn languages! I hope you continue your journey and continue enjoying learning languages as a major part of your life 😁
Yes. We want more videos about learning languages.
I love that you're learning Thai! Your making me want to restudy the language 💞💞
You are my inspiration ❤️
This was really useful! I've been trying to self study Chinese but I didn't know how to do it but now I have an idea of what to do which is actually follow a process of studying instead of just trying to jump to the difficult haha thanks!
It's so nice to see your videos again Lindie. 화이팅 with that Thai!! You inspire me so much! 加油!! ^^
Been watching you for a while and this is definitely a surprise because I 'm Thai 🥰 Good luck for your learning and hope one day we can have good conversation in Thai ka :)
soo happy for this! I'm also learning Thai, the alphabet is so pretty but so difficult haha~💖
This is really great like always. When I saw your smiling face, I feel myself so happy and motivated. Good luck in this process. I believe in you. You can do everything what you want
I really like this style of video you did! It feels very relatable 😂 I would love to see more in other languages as well if you get the chance! Good luck learning Thai!
Good luck with Thai! I hope you do well, and God bless you!
สวัสดีค่ะ. I have been wanting to learn Thaï as well. So excited to see your journey in it and how you go about it ! Good luck ! ✨
lindie this haircolor looks so good on you 🥰
I can't believe it! I've just started learning Thai as well!!!
7:51: "H̄nụ̀ng s̄ạpdāh̄̒ mī ....WHAT?"
Love that part. Made me smile.
I'm learning Thai too. That frustration of learning this beautiful language is totally so relatable. :D
Keep up with these Thai beginner videos. Those 9 minutes flew by. You rule, Lindie.
Thanks for this video! I recently started studying Hungarian from scratch so it was interesting to see how you plan out your language learning journey with a completely new language. I got quite some useful input. And by the way, I think that Thai is a great choice. I love the country and its culture and how the language sounds. 😃
Gracias por compartir esto, Lindie! Creo que ver a alguien a quien uno admira dar sus primeros pasos en un nuevo reto, me recuerda que todos somos personas y me motiva a seguir en este viaje que es aprender idiomas ✨💜
Thank you so much for sharing your journey! Your videos give a lot of motivation and encouragement to me and to lots of other people
Greetings from Thailand! Have fun studying Thai! Such a big fan of your channel as I'm also passionate about learning languages. You're such a huge inspiration for me.
Wow, Lindie, I’m so excited for you to learn Thai! I’m also interested in learning this language and I already tried to learn it once but at that time I wasn’t so serious about it. For me, the European, who doesn’t speak any tone language, Thai seems hella hard (well, and exiting too). I wish you well on your journey, I’m sure you can learn it!😁💪💪
I’ve followed you for years and this has got to be one of my favourite videos!! Seeing you start from beginner and the process of how you get started in a language (and actually seeing you practise). I’ve been learning French for a while but really want to start Turkish - I just felt really overwhelmed by how different the language is. This has motivated me so much! 🥳
Hello Lindie! I was looking for tips for the TOPIK2 exam and found your video from 2 years ago which leads me to this video. I am Thai who just passed TOPIK1 and is amazed at how disciplined you are. I know it's going to be a long journey for you to learn Thai but I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for the inspiration and learning language tips! :)
Tök érdekes látni hogy hogy állsz neki egy új nyelv tanulásának! 😊
Absolutely love to see you learning Thai, I really wanna learn it in the future, right now, i'm just focusing on Mandarin, Russian and recently korean
OMG I've been procrastinating on learning Thai for so long, this comes at the right time since I want to start something new, and have time now. Good luck to both of us
Pod101 is such an amazing resource. You literally don't need anything else. So much information there from absolute basics to very advance levels. Though, my preferred method is books, right now learning French, at the moment using Assimil + general French reading + little grammar exercises, not too much.
I was so excited to watch this video, because I have been learning Thai about 2 months and i can understand some Thai now. Thai alphabet is extremely difficult, but Thai grammar is very simple and easy. Good luck to your Thai learning journey :)
And i love your videos, it's always so inspiring 👍
Looking forward for your Thai vlogs. Fellow learner here!
I can't believe it! I have been following you for a very long time because you are my language learning idol. So I am Thai. I am so grateful that you learned my language. ♥️
You come across as a really lovely person Lindie. Good luck !!
It's so fun to see people studying since we all do it differently. Two years ago I started learning french just like you study but in a class setting and I hated it. I'm autistic so I crave ✨️structure✨️ and I felt that was missing from that class which frustrated me because I saw my peers learning so much and even though I put the effort I still felt it wasn't enough. I stopped learning during the pandemic to concentrate on my mental health and recently returned to it but in my way. I'm heavily relying on grammar because it soothes that structure craving but I'm also learning vocabulary, common phrases, immersion and all that good ol' stuff.
This is exciting me as someone who also wants to learn the language, have fun!
LOL watching you fill out that webform and saying "yes, I DO want a Thai ebook, give me everything" is like watching myself. Sure, I'd love some Korean Hangul printouts! A free study schedule? Yes please! Oh, an ebook with the grammar I'm learning? Send it immediately!
I've started learning a couple weeks ago, so I feel you. 'Thai Lessons By New' is a good yt channel, btw. I enjoy the lessons there.
I didn't start with the alphabet, tho. Before going into it, I memorized a few words first, so that I would have something solid to help me remember the letters later (if that makes sense).
Wish you success~
You're really cool. I wish you the best with your Thai.
I'm starting uni in two weeks with Thai as my major and Japanese as my minor, and I'm super excited already!
Hi Lindie, I've watched your channel for a long time for my Japanese stydy motivation. I'm extiting to know that you'll start new language.
Good luck.
You have no idea how much I like you and your videos.💙💙💙
Hello, Lindie! I'm from France and I really appreciate watching your videos even though I don't usually comments on people's video. But, when I've seen your video, I was so glad that you are learning new language and it's Thai! It's because, i'm half thai but since I was born In France and didn't learn it apart from picking some words, sentences with the help of my mother and of course lakorn / dramas and music, I don't really considered myself as a half thai person. Sorry, it's getting too long but yes, I'm with you, I'm learning not constantly but if I have a proper time, I think, I have to organize well, I should learning the language seriously haha.
I also watched the same video with the alphabet haha, I also think it's quite complicate (but the difficult part is how to put together and to read them, sometimes it's simple sometimes it's not lol) but, I've found a video about a man who was living in Thailand I think, he recommended to know the important one first and If i'm not mistaken, to learn letters with a small group (like maybe with the video uou had watched).
Wish you the best and a big cheer up for this new journey but also for other things!
p-s: sorry for any mistake (especially english grammar) but hope you are able to understand what I wanted to convey.
I am so happy you are recording yourself learning a new language practically from zero. I don't feel so silly now when I hear myself speak a new language for the first time
I love how you follow pronouncing Thai words from text to speech; you have so much talent! , keep it up! from a native Thai.
Great video Lindie! I love the casualness of it ❤
Yay, thank you!
I remember watching the same video when I started learning Thai. It was hard, and I didn't really get far. Best wishes with your learning!
I am Belarusian,so if there mistakes sorry)I am 12 years old.I started learn Chinese two months ago and now I am starting learn Thai with you)
So excited to see your journey with this language!
Thanks Mandie!!
Wow!!! I'm doing almost the same with Russian. I started studying it from scratch last month.My goal for September was to learn the Cyrillic Alphabet... my plan for the next month is to learn it better and start to learn some simple phrases... I'm using Duolingo for that! I copy the sentece on my notebook and then I start to work changing the sentece with the words I already know or trasforming the sentece into negative one... things like that! Keep going! Can't wait to see your progress!💪🏻🤩👍🏻
สวัสดีครับ ~ Follow your channel for so long~ I’m a native Thai. Never thought you are going to learn Thai again. Hope you can achieve it. 🥰
Omg waiting for this day to come haahaha this is awesome เก่งมากค่ะ
I'm learning Thai as well! It'll be the second language after Korean ^^ It took a while to get through the alphabet... and I still cant read it properly without having to refer to my notes when it comes to the tones. Goodluck to both of us!
Your pronunciations r actually very impressive! Tonal languages r so hard especially Thai!
Your pronunciation is great. I love your ป sound. Keep going!
Thai is on my list of languages I want to learn. I'm currently focusing on improving the languages I'm already learning and I just know some Thai from watching a lot of dramas 🙈 But when I start actually learning it, this will be very helpful, so thank you for making the video 💜
😊 Girl. I wish you the best and thank you for the language learning guidance.
THank you!
Hi Lindie! I don't know your Vietnamese level, but I know you're a fan of language stacking! I discovered a channel called Yêu Tiếng Thái that you may want to check out. She has a playlist for learning the Thai alphabet and I've been watching it to re-learn the Thai alphabet myself. I do struggle to understand what she is saying, but I still find it helpful since Thai and Vietnamese have similar sounds. I feel like my knowledge of Vietnamese is helping me connect the dots better 😊 of course the thaipod101 videos are great too!
Good luck with your studies! Looking forward to your next video!
When you decide to get back on Vietnamese, I’ll jump along side you! 😁 Have fun Lindie!
I'm sure this is going to be exciting for you! Yeah, Thai is not easy and even after two years of study I can only hold super simple conversations. One of my favorite UA-cam channels for Thai is 'Thai With Grace' She's a polyglot, like you, but Thai is her 1st language. Good luck!
I also had a similar moment where I learned korean vocab on drops and when my tutor got to that in our textbook I was like hey, that's familiar! All the best in your thai language learning! Thai alphabet looks so squiggly but pretty.
I love this series. PLEASE, more just of these simple 10-15 minute language learning vlogs. Of course I like the more professional content as well, 100% no caveats. The vlogging adds a human element and a window in the shared experience of a language learner.
Plus... it'll be nice to see how you deal with the A1 -> A2 "oh god, there's so much", and even the dreaded B1 plateau "oh my god I've done so much and yet I still know nothing"
I am starting Thai in December! So excited that I will be on the same path as you!!!
I live in Japan, so Thai has been floating around my outer circle for over a decade. I really got interested in Thai, however, when I worked at Tokyo Paralympics boccia venue. Thai is tops in boccia, so there was Thai everywhere. I was working in the languages team, and there were Thai speakers in our team, so I heard Thai every day. I thought it was beautiful. Then I had the most beautiful encounter with a Thai suport team member. Then Thailand produced a remake of Japanese drama, Hana Yori Dango, so I watched my first Thai drama. Then I fell down the BL wormhole. Then I discovered the music of Jeff Satur... So basically, a never-ending list of reasons to learn Thai. (Sorry Malay, you are going to have to wait a little bit longer.)
I won't have free time until Japan's end of year vacation and I like to start with a deep-dive immersion, so I have to wait until then.
PS, I have been missing your vids for months, since I watched from my work account which I never use any more. *sad face*
So many Thai learners! Im not learning Thai but I really enjoyed watching this video. Hope I can also meet fellow Vietnamese learners here.
Awesome! โชคดีกับการเรียนภาษาไทยครับ
loved this video format! feels like as if i’m studying with you 😅 loved to see you going through all the process of initiating learning a new language 😊
Thank you so much!
The writing does look very similar 😮💨🤭 you got this Lindie!!!!!!
สวัสดีค่ะ Lindie
เป็นกำลังใจให้นะคะ
สู้ สู้ ✌️✌️✌️