5 Tips for learning to speak Thai in 6 Months

What language are you learning at the moment!!?

Great tips Paddy.👍

Oi.

Very useful info and appears good advice (especially learning sentences rather than just words).
One thing that keeps occurring to me is would it be a little bit useful, immensely useful or not particularly useful when learning a new language for him/her to study reading and writing in that language?

Ребята, спасибо огромное за Ваш труд! Очень полезная информация!

Thai people make fun of me all the time when I try to speak Thai. They dont encourage you, it's like they dont want you to be able to speak it.

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I've been watching your videos for a while now and enjoy them all! Thank you for making educational content that is so helpful to us farang. I currently live in Samui. I am curious if you traveled to Koh Samui a few months ago? Once you pulled that book out, I recognized you from my flight! I'm not positive it was you. I offered you a food item that I didn't want to waste from my tray and you accepted it... was it you? 🤔 😊

As a thai I use more than 6 months to speak thai😂😂😂

I totally agreed. I have been learning Thai in AUA for a year of 2010, but their teaching method didn't make you speak Thai unfortunately. Just sitting in the classroom listen to all the teachers talk but no chance of letting you to speak. Students just sit there all day long just listening. No chance to speak, write or read！

Learning a language while living in the country is one thing (you have to surround yourself with nationals, of course). It’s another learning from a distance.

What sentence could I use to ask people to speak with basic/beginner vocab

Since I absolutely hate reply notifications, I'll answer your question here. Im learning Chinese

Hi. Thanks for the video, good advice and funny. Could you please elaborate on why you said thai is way simpler than English? I was surprided about it. For someone who doesnt understand a single word it looks like the contrary...thanks very much in advance. Cheers

haha at the first tip ( I found my mistake)as I have been learning words but not sentences.

I've been trying to learn Thai for 3 years. It would help if Thai people would actually try and help you learn. But I find that they don't really care. My wife is Thai, gets upset that I don't understand her when she speaks Thai. But at the same time, she doesn't try to help. She just says go online and study it. Honestly, I spoke better Thai three years ago.

One problem is thai phut reo reo laa phom mai khao jai 😅

Want to learn Thai to watch GL dramas without need for subtitles.

Im trying to clap thai cheeks in 2 years and need to start this journey 😂

One of my dreams is really to learn Thai and Vietnamese 😢 , so far as all of my study mates who are learning mandarin with me are from Vietnam, I know a few vietnamese phrases, but Thai... It is a different story, I hope someone could help me out 😢, I am willing to practice in language learning apps like HelloTalk, Hilokal and YeeTalk, if you want, I can help you with Tagalog, Cebuano, Melayu and Bhs Indo , thank you

I've been learning Thai for almost two months already. At the beginning it was so difficult and I thought about giving up lots of times, but I kept going and made up my own study schedule + method. I already know how to read and write most phrases, even though I can't understand some words. I'm now trying to improve my vocabulary more and more

nice channel,i can easily learn if delivery method like this...thanks

I've been trying to learn Thai and this video has helped me like when i started learning sentences instead of words my skills just started improving better and better my only problem is when people speak really fast and even when i ask them to speak slower so i can understand they go like "oh ok" and keep going fast anyway

Bro I learn English from game 💀

Did I just meet you on koh phangan last week?

You’re great Paddy……keep up with your nice videos!!!!

I concur with tip #1. Try to string a sentence together for different scenarios, eg. go to buy some meat, asking for directions etc. I used to imagine a conversation between 2 persons, and I would do both the questions and responses. Then you can build out your vocabulary. This way you can be proficient in a new language in about 9 months, well that's how long it took me to learn English to a point where I can comfortably hold a conversation in 80% of the time, from not knowing a word of English.

How hard was it to learn to
speak Thai? I plan on visiting soon like in the fall.

I learned vocabulary not sentences because Thai is so literal grammar is not as important. And I speak better Thai than you so take these tips with a grain of salt

Any book suggestions to learn sentences?

What to learn firstly? Just words, just sentences, alphabet, tones, traveler phrases, writing, reading? I totally do not understand what to start

I want to learn Thai because it’s just fun to speak, I also love that it’s more like a song haha Idk what it is but I love the language haha

A good Thai course recommendation would have been great.

I live in sweden but my parents is from thai

My name is: อลิส

I’m Thai and I can barely read a book in Thai 💀

Hi Paddy, I am a beginner to learn Thai. Your Thai accents is impressive. May I know where did you learn?

This short format video worked well.

Great tips.I wish I'd seen before.Exactly my problem.. vocabulary not too bad but can't string a sentence together

Thank you so much for this video! This was full of wonderful tips. I'm going to visit Thailand in February and I'm going to use your five tips to start preparing to speak as much Thai as I can learn in a month. But I will continue learning it because in 2 years I plan to move to Bangkok permanently so I want to be able to speak it as fluently as possible by then.

I really like this channel! Easy and fun! English is much easier than thai and I have been learning English for 25 years, but I still only speak at a basic level. I moved to Bangkok recently and I want to learn Thai but I see my limits. When I started to drive a car, for me was very easy, after few hour I drove good! We are different, with different capability...

I'm currently learning Thai. I'm learning Thai because of this really interesting gl Thai series and I want to be able to understand what they are saying.

Rather than learn a new language, master your old language!

That's exactly how i learned Thai.. but the problem is i live in Malaysia and no one can teach me or help me to speak Thai like tip 2 & 4.. it's me who teach people around me to speak Thai hahaha so funny laa
and i practice my Thai with google and simsimi 😂

Great video! I'm going to put this in to practice :)

Paddy's first tip is so true... I'm impatient so I just look up the sentences I want to use and use it.
There's no point teaching words

I really want to learn the language because of my love of lakorn and I really want to watch it without sub cuz I love Mario🥰

AUA Natural approach:
1. Do not try to speak Thai (if you do, you develop your own version and you speak not clearly)
2. Listen (classes are just listening)
3. Understand
4. Speaking comes natural after about 500 hours. Time to learn reading and writing.
1000 hours you can speak good thai
2000 hours you can speak very good thai
3000 hours you can speak almost like a native thai
Unfortunately they do not have thai classes for for foreigners anymore (do not confuse with some websites using aua)

I kinda wondered why you always seem to interview that dude Kla…now I realize it is because he is a friend of yours. Is this the case? Or can you elaborate please

In 2014 - desperate in Nong Khai - I learned sentences. They did stick. But I've deliberately rammed 300 new high frequency words into my nogging. That seems to help too. Knowing the word for heavy, light, exercise, cleaning, bank, broken, live, noisy, knife, fork, spoon, glasses, sightseeing, arrive, leave, open, close, explain, tired...it helps.