The Courses
| There are 7 courses from Beginner - Advanced: |
| 1. Discover Thai | 30 hours |
| 2. Foundation Course | 30 hours |
| 3. The Explorer Course | 30 hours |
| 4. Confidence Course | 30 hours |
| 5. Developing Details | 30 hours |
| 6. The Fluent Farang | 30 hours |
| 7. Almost Local | 30 hours |
Contents of Discover Thai - Course 1
- Greetings & Saying Farewell
- Introducing Yourself and Others
- Pronouns & Words Used to Address People
- Basic Sentence Structure
- Asking & Answering Questions
- General Useful Phrases
- Asking & Answering Questions About Work
- Phrases for Learning More Thai
- Ordering Food & Drinks
- Numbers 1
- Prepositions (in, on, at, etc.)
- Asking About the Location of People, Landmarks and Items
- Using Verbs and Past & Future Tenses
- (e.g. Where are you eating? / Where did you go to eat? / Where are you going to eat?)
- Question Terms (What? / Which? / Where? / Would you like …? / How many …? /
Can you …? / May I please …? / … isn't it?)
- Common Expressions 1
- Classifiers 1
Contents of Foundation Course - Course 2
- Bargaining
- Taking taxis & buses
- Days, dates & times
- Prepositions (in front of, past, opposite, behind, beside. etc)
- Numbers 2
- Thai currency
- Asking & answering questions about directions
- Using negative questions (very common in Thai)
- Asking for permission or items
- Using Present, Simple & Future Continuous Tenses
- Question terms: (Which? When? How long? What time?)
- Driving Instructions
- Common Expressions 2
- Classifiers 2
- Thai proverbs
Contents of The Explorer Course - Course 3
- Using "but & also"
- Family & ages
- Using the verb "to be" with "still, not yet, ever & never"
- Ordinal numbers (as first child, second child, etc)
- Using Adverbs (again, another time)
- Using "Could you please …?"
- Using "for, to, this, that & have to (must)"
- Using "waa" in Thai - As I said that, she thinks that, I told … that, etc.
- Using "How many + classifiers & many + classifiers" which is very common in Thai.
- Using "Every & Each & Some" - every house, some houses, etc
- Using "If, then, same as, because, should & together"
- Using "Gaw" - It is a linking word that gives a hypothetical, indirect & understated meaning to a
sentence.
- Medical Problems
- Thai idioms & Phrases 1
- Question terms
(Have you …? /Have you ever …? / How is …? / What is it like? Who?
Why? / Why don't you? / Which?)
For the contents of further courses please contact Mind Your Language team.
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