Beginners' Thai

Learn to speak, read, write and understand Thai!
Love, Travel, Study, Work, Friendship-whatever your reason for wanting to learn, Beginners' Thai will help you to:  
- Communicate      naturally in everyday situations.
- Build      your confidence with easy-to-follow explanations and plenty of practice      activities.
- Understand      and pronounce Thai easily with online audio.
- Become familiar with the Thai alphabet.
- Remember      what you learn with our effective Discovery Method.
- Focus      your learning and track your progress with practical tools and planners.
Access the audio for this course for free by downloading it to the Teach Yourself Library app or streaming it on library.teachyourself.com.
Is this course for me?
Beginners' Thai is for absolute beginners and those who've had some previous experience with the language and want to refresh their knowledge. Clear and simple explanations make the course appropriate and accessible to anyone learning Thai. There are extensive illustrations and tools to help you plan your studies and track your progress, all designed to support learning on your own. This course is also ideal to use with one-to-one tutoring and as a classroom course, and it's the perfect resource to pair with a language-learning app.
Where do I go next?
Continue learning with Teach Yourself Complete Thai.
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David Smyth spent several years teaching at universities in Thailand before taking up a post as Senior Lecturer in Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.