Please share your ideas and stories. I’d love to hear from you. Maybe you’ve had fun or interesting encounters with the Thai language, or maybe you have some ideas on teaching or learingThai (DOs or DON’Ts, or particular ways to approach some of the challenges).
Just send me your submission by email and I will post it on the blog.
From a current student in the OCDSB program:
Before discovering the OCDSB program, this student had hunted for a private Thai tutor, with only intermittent success (Many Thai teachers in Ottawa
March 5, 2001
Thai Language Instruction
I have held an interest in the Thai language since my first encounter with it, in early 1996. I find its sound melodious and its script an attractive curvilinear form.
My current desire is to begin studying the language in a structured way. The intention is to have a scheduled obligation for study on a weekly basis, consisting of private tutorial coupled with “homework” exercises to be assigned by the tutor.
To begin, I am suggesting one hour per week of tutorial, and approximately two, or so, hours per week of “homework”.
I will require guidance in approaching the language, with a focus on gaining a working appreciation of both spoken, and written Thai. While I have no predetermined scale of progress in mind, I feel that a paced programme with benchmarks and milestones, is a worthwhile way to proceed.
Key elements of the programme of study will include:
- Thai grammar & parts of speech
- Thai “alphabet” and numbers
- Thai phonemes and their proper pronunciation
- Forms of address, and etiquette
