Thai Pronunciation
Series
Say goodbye to your native accent and embrace Thai sounds. Learn and practice pronouncing to build confidence in speaking Thai.
Say goodbye to your native accent and embrace Thai sounds. Learn and practice pronouncing to build confidence in speaking Thai.
I understand how frustrated you are when trying to communicate in Thai but the locals don’t get what you’re trying to say. Blame it all on your pronunciation!
There are a few elements you need to master Thai pronunciations. To get started, I would like to introduce you to the 3 golden rules:
You should try to close your throat and hold your breath and don’t let any air out of your mouth when pronouncing words with บ(p), ก(k), or ด(t) ending consonants. Instead of saying ชอบ (châawp) with the ending “p” sound. Try to close your mouth at the end, you will sound much more like a Thai.
Thai vowels are separated according to their sounds into two groups: long sounds and short sounds. When a syllable consists of a long vowel, you need to make sure the vowel sound is long. The word ชอบ (châawp) consists of สระออ (sa-ra-aaw), which has a long sound. Let’s try to pronounce this word with a long -aaw sound. It should not sound like the word “shop” in English but chaawp.
By this time, you probably realized Thai is a tonal language where the meaning of a word changes regarding its tone. The thing is, using English transliteration (writing a word with English letters) only makes it worse. Not only imprecision of consonants and vowels, but also confusing diacritical marks to represent tones (a, à, â, á and ǎ).
The word ชอบ (châaw) is clearing with a falling tone according to the diacritical mark (â), however, the pitch starts from high and moves low, instead of moving from low to high and back to low. It’s best to learn 5 pitch movements before matching them with the signs.
These 3 rules are highlighted but there are many more rules and tips to learn. The most important thing to improve pronunciation is only 20% about theory, for the most part, 80% is all about physical exercise. You need to train the ears-mouth gym. This course provides it all for you.
This Thai Pronunciation Series will help you improve your Thai pronunciation to build your confidence in speaking Thai and finally let other Thais understand you.
Improving your Thai pronunciation is similar to learning how to ride a bicycle. You need to understand the basics of biking, such as how to paddle and steer with the handlebars, but you also have to practice riding on your own until you feel more confident and familiar.
In this course, you will be able to:
✅ Learn the concepts of Thai phonetics in a simple method.
✅ Practice listening and speaking exercises and drills
✅ Build muscle memory for your mouth and ears.
✅ Pronounce Thai consonants and vowel sounds correctly
✅ Master Thai tones with visual graph techniques
✅ Avoid common mistakes
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👉🏽 A series of online video lessons by Kru Smuk
👉🏽 Downloadable worksheets and slides
👉🏽 Audio Bonuses
👉🏽 Student Support via comment section
💲 Price: 3,900 THB (115 USD) excl. VAT
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5 chapters with 20 pockets lessons and exercises will help you regain your confidence in speaking Thai with better pronunciation.
Download your course book and exercises first. Then get started with the most concise introduction video lesson to show you each elements of great Thai pronuniciation, point out common mistakes and lay out the path for you to walk on to reach your goal.
Let’s start with the most fundamental. Let’s pronounce each consonant sounds correctly starting from the originations of sounds and I will also highlight and give tips to pronounce consonant sounds that do not exist in English which are จ, ง, ต, ป and ร.
Lastly, we will practice to swallow ending consonant sounds as well as train your ear to differentiate similar sounds.
There are 32 sounds in Thai. I believe you can pronounce most of them, but still struggle with a few strange sounds like สระอึ สระอือ สระเออ and สระเอือ. Let me help you go through these smoothly with each vowel’s mouth shape and tips.
Let’s unlearn what you’ve learned in the past that makes you so confused and scared of tones. I will start from introducing you 5 movements of pitches with visualization techniques. Then you will realised tones are manageable and fun to pronounce. Let’s speak like you’re singing.
Many times you might catch Thai people speaking differently from how the words should be pronounced. I gathers common rules with clear explanation and examples for you in this chapter.
Besides pronunciation, you also have to learn to speak or express like Thai locals. This topic includes using the right pronouns, different levels of politeness and formality, shorten words, interjections and particles (or filling words).
I put in various exercises and tools to help you improve your Thai pronunciation. This is the real ears-mouth gym for you!
Experience the difference for yourself! Explore our engaging preview lessons on our online platform, and then join us to embark on an exciting learning journey.
Lesson: Learn Beginning Consonant sounds
After the course, you will feel more much confidence to speak Thai as you improved your Thai pronunciation.
✓ Pronounce some challenging consonant sounds with ease.
✓ No longer fall back to your native accent.
✓ Be able to differentiate the similarly-sounding vowels.
✓ Master the Thai tones with visualization and humming techniques.
✓ Understand more colloquial Thai and speak Thai more naturally.
I guaranteed an enjoyable learning experienced and quality content.
As soon as you can.
You should learn Thai sounds and how to pronounce words correctly from the beginning of your journey. It becomes more challenging to unlearned what you have learned wrong.
Do not wait until you learned Thai scripts. Again, you should start learning as soon as you can.
This course will designed to teach students in all levels. The materials come into two sets, one in Thai scripts and one in English transliteration.
BananaThai customer service is what my students appreciate the most. No need to be worried to get started, you will receive a welcome email with a course instructor to help you get started with the course.
Please feel free to submit your homework or ask any questions in the discussion section below each lesson. You can also learn from other students’ questions as well.
Credit card and Debit card are accepted for online payment on our website. Besides, you can also purchase a course with PayPal or Thai bank transfer (please contact info@bananathaischool.com)
The prices are in Thai Baht (THB) however you can use your currency to make a payment with your card. The exchange rate is according to the current rate.
Regional taxes may be applied depends on where you resides and where your card is issued.
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Believe me, this is gonna the best investment for your learning Thai journey. Start it right!
Best regards,
Kru Smuk (Your Thai Teacher)
From April 12–21, get a FREE Thai Pronunciation Course (worth 3,900 THB) when you enroll in any of these bundles:
✅ Intensive Thai Vol.1 & 2
✅ Intensive Thai Vol.3 & 4
✅ Thai Reading Bundle
This limited-time offer is your chance to level up your Thai and sound more like a native speaker.
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