Talk:Thai/Writing lessons plan

Some links on other wiki

 * wikt:Wiktionary:List of 100 basic Thai words on Wiktionary
 * w:Royal Thai General System of Transcription on Wikipedia
 * The official country and major city transliterate names

Current status
This is starting to shape up. I looked up some words and place names that I had used for Greek, to see whether they might be suitable for Thai as well, and a lot of them are. The difficulty in comparison to the Greek alphabet course will be that there won't be any letters the student can already recognise right from the start. So what we need is a lot of words that don't use many letters (short words like "oh", but long words like "banana" are also possible) and that are preferably very similar to the English equivalent. By the way, are there any one-letter words in Thai (not necessarily like any English ones)?

Once the list is sufficiently long, I will try to find an order that reflects a step-by-step increase. For example, once the student can read กา, he will just need to learn the additional letter ว (and the tone mark) in order to be able to read ก้าว, then he will just need to learn the additional letter เ in order to be able to read เก้า, then just โ to be able to read โกโก้. In the Greek alphabet course, we managed to find so many suitable words that the student could always read several new words (ressembling English ones! but of course Greek has had a more intense exchange of vocabulary with English than Thai has) for each new letter he learned. It's great for practise and for a feeling of success. Nothing is more frustrating than having learned letter after letter and still being unable to read anything. Besides, if there is no opportunity to practise reading before the alphabet is completely assimilated, or if all the words are foreign to the student so that reading them is not a fun enigma but a task, the student will very easily forget what he has learned.

Thank you very much for your contributions!

Junesun 18:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Thai Virtual Keyboard
For Thai input,and then copy-paste.

http://chaimai.com/thai_keyboard.php?lang=th