Wongkitlo Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 On 6/23/2021 at 3:52 PM, Bredbury Blue said: I'm impressed by SRJ, watched lots of his stuff. I printed off his 'Phonetic Map of the Human Mouth' chart which I often refer to. I memorised the consonants by class lines by line. I found his chart very simplistic and helpful. I made my own table of tones as others have done. Took me an afternoon to memorise, and then I spent time practicing using it on words to work out each words tone. I found this little 'game' of choosing the class of each consonant fun and very useful. http://www.thai-language.com/id/838480 Once I learnt the script and the tones enough to read basic stuff I was appalled at how I'd been wrongly pronouncing names or things for years. Check out this list of provinces, almost all wrongly transliterated meaning all of us non-Thai pronounce them wrongly - some are way out. http://www.thai-language.com/id/589833 It's definitely worth the effort of learning Thai script and tones, and leave the transliteration nonsense behind. Left Thailand for a little so not on the forum much. I think when I followed SJR's mouth map and his open/ closed throat Thai tone explanation my Thai took off. Like you I wrote down my own. I also liked how he says not to worry about many of the consonants as they are not common. it is crazy learning a language with 4 ,'T's'etc. Now I just do you tube Thai. New on one of the channels is favourite. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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