Learn to read Thai - Index

• Tutorial 1 - ก
• Tutorial 2 - ร ะ อั
• Tutorial 3 - ป ต บ อี
• Tutorial 4 - ง
• Tutorial 5 - ข ค ฆ ฃ ฅ (the 'k' consonants)
• Tutorial 6 - ด อิ
• Tutorial 7 - า อำ เอา ย ญ
• Tutorial 8 - น ม ล ไ ใ
• Tutorial 9 - ว ห ฮ
• Tutorial 10 - ส ซ ศ ษ (the 's' consonants)
• Tutorial 11 - อ
• Tutorial 12 - ห (when used for tone purposes only)
• Tutorial 14 - อ่ อ้ อ๊ อ๋ (tone rule summary)
• Tutorial 15 - ท ถ ธ ฑ ฒ ฐ (the 't' consonants)
• Tutorial 16 - เ
• Tutorial 17 - ภ ผ พ ฝ ฟ (the 'p' and 'f' consonants)
• Tutorial 18 - อุ อู
• Tutorial 19 - โ ช ฉ ฌ จ
• Tutorial 20 - ฎ ฏ ณ ฬ
• Tutorial 21 - ๆ ฯ อ์
• Tutorial 22 - ลด (implied/unwritten vowels and consonant clusters)
• Tutorial 23 - ฤ ฤๅ ฦ ฦๅ รร ทร
• Tutorial 24 - เอีย and some other vowel combinations
• Tutorial 25 - กาญจนบุรี and other place names
• Tutorial 26 - ๐ to ๙ Reading Thai numbers
• Tutorial 27 - อึ อื
• Tutorial 28 - อาหาร Food and drink; reading Thai menus

Recommended books

If you are serious about learning how to read Thai, I highly recommend the following two books. These two books taught me almost everything I know and I still use them almost every day for reference purposes.

Most of the phrase books and text books for beginners that I have bought sit on my bookshelf accumulating dust. They are next to useless and good only to fuel the fire, except that it is never cold enough here to need a fire. However, if a sudden cold snap happens to descend, I will be grateful to Lonely Planet.

If you want to learn how to speak Thai, learning to read Thai will assist your pronunciation enormously. If you are trying to learn to speak Thai from books that use hopeless transliteration systems you are wasting your time because Thais won't be able to understand you.

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