Course Overview
About the Language :
Thai or Central Thigh is a Tia Language of the Kra-Dai Language Family that are spoken by Central Thai people and majority of Thai-Chinese. It is the sole official language of Thailand. Thai is the most spoken among 60 languages in Thailand by both native as well as overall speakers. Almost half of its vocabulary is derived from Old Khmer. It is a tonal as well as analytic language similar to Vietnamese and Chinese Language. As a dominant language in all aspects in Society of Thailand, Thai was gradually adopted as second language by the non-native speaker of Thailand since the time of mid- late Ayutthaya period.
History of the Language :
According to a source from China, during the Ming Dynasty, Yingya Shenglan, Ma Huan in the 15 th century, reported on the language of Hsien Lo, that it somewhat resembles, the local patois, as pronounced in Kuang tung province. Since then Thai has undergone through some historical changes and most significant changes have occurred during the evolution of Old Thai to Modern Thai. There is two way distinction voice vs. voiceless distinction of consonants, and upto a four year distinction of fricative and sonorate consonants and this is a four-way distinction among affricates and stops. The maximum four ways occurred in dentals and labials.
Origin of the Language :
The major changes occur between old and new Thai was due to voicing distinction losses and concomitment tone split. These have happened between about 1300 and 1600 CE. They are possibly occurring in different times at different times in different times in different parts of the Thai speaking area. All voiced and voiceless distinction: Plain voiced stops become voiceless aspirated stops, Voiceless sonorants became voiced, and Voiced fricatives becomes voiceless. Later formal distinction of voice was turned into a total new set of tonal distinction. Old Thai has now split into two tones, the lower pitched tone which corresponding to a syllable which formerly began with voiced consonants and a higher pitched tone corresponding to a syllable that formerly began with a voiceless consonant (including glottalised stops).
Read MoreBenefits:
- There are global Thai communities which makes it a language worth learning.
- Most educational institutes teach languages such as Chinese, Japanese, French, Spanish, and German as these languages are widespread. On the other hand, Thai is special not to be widespread and very few people are studying it. So one is going to learn a language that makes one stand out in a crowd.
- Thailand’s demographic is undoubtable impressive and every part of the country is offering a unique feature that is worth visiting. Visiting major cities and tourist spots does not require knowing Thai but staying there for a longer time and visiting rural villages require knowing Thai language.
- Languages and culture are closely connected, so to understand the culture of Thai one should learn Thai language.
- One needs to know Thai Language to do a Job in Thailand.
- Thailand has Industries like Travel and Tourism sector, teaching, content creating field, customer service representatives, marketing, IT sector, and there are many more who have professions like this and persons are required to know Thai.
Job opportunities:
- Thai Language translator in a number of professions such as academics, fashion, law, tourism, technology, health, and so on.
- Thai Language Teacher in ICSE, CBSE and International Schools, and universities in India where there is a good demand of non-native trainers.
- Customer service representative in leading MNCs. They are now recruiting bilingual staff who also know Thai apart from knowing English and this will help them to become a customer care agent.
- Work as an online content creator by knowing Thai Language.
- Travel and tourism also needs people who know Thai Language.
Topics Covered
What You Will Learn :
- Memorize vocabulary of daily life.
- Read basic sentences and phrases.
- Memorize vocabulary of daily life.
- Read and understand basic written Instructions and Orders.
- Read and understand Languages written in sign languages.
- Read and understand vocabulary written in and associated with people, objects and places.
- Listen and understand simple and short sentences.
- Communicating effectively in daily life.
- Make basic conversation using simple sentence and structure.
- Write words, phrases and sentences used in daily life.
What You Will Learn :
- Read and understand the concepts of a sentence.
- Read and understand short essays and stories on the topic one is interested most with complicated and long sentences.
- Identify the main idea of a story or an essay by reading.
- Listen and Understand stories spoken in a clear fashion at normal speed.
- On should use both speak informal and formal languages and give opinions on topics that one finds more interesting.
- Communicate with Thai people on topics that one is not familiar with.
- Write essay’s with a good flow in terms of ideas, time, and logic.
- Using proper conjunctions on essay’s and other texts.
- Describe, explain and give information via writing.
What You Will Learn :
- Reading and using Thai proverbs, idioms, and other sayings that are not much used in daily life.
- Read and understand both academic and non-academic texts on a variety of topics having both simple and complex sentences.
- Listen and understanding both academic and non-academic stories, even when the speaker talks quickly.
- Listen and Understand speaker’s tone and cultural, societal context within the story.
- Speak using informal or formal language as required by the situation.
- Communicate very well on a variety of topics.
- Give explanations, influences and opinions, and persuade others.
- Knowing and understanding Thai culture and speaking about it.
- Using Thai vocabulary correctly with proper grammar, proverbs and idioms while speaking.
- Speak and have good understanding of Thai culture.
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