This Easy Thai Reading For Beginners will be a great tool to start! Enjoy the rest of the lesson! Within each game is a set of images you can click to hear the Thai … Thai Reading. Despite the unreasonable lack of good materials for studying Thai, I am managing to get ahead. Reading and comprehension are very important in Thai. You will be able to sharpen your comprehension and understanding of the sample text below, which is part of the Article 26 and 27 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Below is the translation of the above text, check what you understood without the help of the dictionary, after reading the translation one time, go back up and read the Thai text and see if you can recognize the more words this time. The first section is in Thai and the second part is in English. If you're trying to practice your Thai Reading then the page below should help. Enjoy. It’s be pretty awesome if Penguin translated some of these books into other languages so more people could benefit. Graded readers are for beginners who are just starting to read. Hire someone to help you read. The Future of Shopping; Do Farang Even Shower? Just read the first paragraph from a number of wikis on a particular topic that you have some level of interest in (movies, dinosaurs, countries, etc). No Magic or Ancient Ninja Tricks here, Just An Effective Way to Learn to Speak Thai. ), Here’s the original blog post about teaching with graded readers I made in 2011.One of the most frustrating things (primarily because of how time consuming it is) I experience as both a teacher and a learner is finding bodies of text that are somewhat related and contain crossover words and phrases. This will help you build much more confidence in your Thai reading comprehension through funny short stories about various everyday topics! These 27 short Thai language readers are ideal for Thai language learners who have studied all reading and writing rules but still lack practice and confidence in reading Thai. Thai learners will soon realize that they are already familiar with most of the vocabulary used in the dialogues and short stories. Don't forget to bookmark this page. They are all quite easy and I’ve marked much of the vocabulary as well as broken down many of the sentences. Read the following text very carefully and see what you can understand without looking at the English translation, and see what you understood from it, you can use our Thai dictionary if you want. I would advise against making an Anki card for every word that you encounter and don’t know. I’ve enjoyed the readings above, and I’m making do with a combination of finding short pieces, and writing my own and getting them expertly translated and recorded. Try 5 Free Lessons from my Online Thai Beginner Course and You’ll See Why it Works. April 20, 2011 by Andre 5 Comments. As you say, readers (Penguin, Oxford, Cambridge etc) are perfect, due to the graded level and the fact that only a certain amount of headwords are used and recycled throughout the books. Back in my early days in Thailand when I was teaching private English lessons I would buy a bunch of those, เกิดเหตุ – [เกิด เห็ด] to happen; to occur, มือปืน – gunman; gunslinger (lit. If tech savvy, record each into a loop for hands-free ease. This is very inefficient as you have no way of knowing how valuable/frequent a particular word is. I spent a fair bit of time and money creating and recording lots of texts and they get very little action. Soon you’ll have the shapes, sounds, tones and class down solid. Me for example. Can you recommend any graded style readers in Thai? The first section is in Thai and the second part is in English. If you're trying to practice your Thai Reading then the page below should help. I am a big fan of encouraging my students to read, and think it is a great way to acquire new language/lexis/vocabulary. The best thing to do is to stick with a particular topic/genre for a while until you get pretty good at it. Update 2018: I’ve created a few Thai reading exercises. I try to practice what I preach by reading an learning lexis/vocabulary from what I read. Barry – There aren’t any decent Thai graded-readers that I know of. If a card ever causes you even the slightest amount of stress, just delete it. With paper and pen, work through each letter at Reading Thai is Fun while… …intermittently clicking on relevant sounds found at learningthai.com/writing, Practice Writing Thai Letters (site offline for now). Update 2018: I’ve created a few Thai reading exercises. To be honest, if you are already writing your own texts, you don’t need a graded reader anymore. The Wimpy kid books are a decent place to start, but the most important thing is that you are already interested in the stuff you are reading about. ; h) use the recording to take dictation so I can practice spelling, typing, etc. Then I do a Big Study,sentence by sentence using techniques of the wonderful Italian polyglot language coach, Luca Lampariello: a)listening while reading; b) listen and repeat; c)read first, then check pronunciation with the recording; d) listen to each sentence at 30% speed (use a slow-down app like “Transcribe”) to hear the connections between the words, and how the tones sound in a flow; e)make a note of individual new words and expressions in context, and put them in Anki; f) do “bilateral translation,” i.e. Once you're done with Thai Reading, you might want to check the rest of our Thai lessons here: Learn Thai. look at the English and translate back into Thai; g) speak extemporaneously about the subject, first to myself, and then to a couple of teachers to get feedback re: pronunciation, presentation, etc. To get started, click on the category you want to practise, such as “Hello and Thank You” or “Drinks in Thai”, to open the game for that category. Hi. There is no reading or writing Thai required to play. Also, delete troublesome cards with no mercy. Oh look, here it is NINE years later, and there’s STILL no graded reader. The problem is there isn’t any market for advanced readers. The links above are only a small sample of our lessons, please open the left side menu to see all links. Just go read native texts about things you are interested in. This will help you build up a lot of vocab that you won’t likely ever hear anyone say, but you still need to be familiar with in order to read native texts comfortably. They are all quite easy and I’ve marked much of the vocabulary as well as broken down many of the sentences. person build การ). Later you will see the same letter that you … Wait until you see something a few times before you make a card for it. I currently use children’s fairy-tales, but I would love something along the same lines of graded readers.