For students interested in learning Thai, one course to consider is the Foreign Service Institute’s Thai course. The latest delivery mode is the CD-ROM version as well as a download version. The following is intended to provide a brief overview of the course.

The materials contained in this course, in either the CD-ROM or the download version,  includes (1) a Programmed Introduction to Thai Phonology; (2) a introduction to standard reading with a glossary; and (3) other supplementary materials. The recordings are designed as an integral part of the course, and were designed to be used in a course of instruction where the main focus is on teaching the student to speak and understand Thai; this is not to say that reading and writing should be ignored, but that additional materials would be required for that purpose.

There is a basic dialog at the beginning of each lesson. It consists of a limited number of exchanges between two or sometimes more persons. It represents a somewhat modified version of a real dialog, since hesitation phenomena, false starts, and other features regularly occurring in real speech have been eliminated. It does present what two educated Thai speakers might say in a given situation if they were being particularly careful to avoid the features referred to above.

If you’re interested in learning Thai, then visit the Foreign Service Institute Thai course.

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