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Free Tone Class

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We are now offering a free 1 hour Thai Language Tone class every Friday morning from 0900 to 1000.
Phone or email for booking.

The Learning Centre
Wongchomsin Building
83/14 Petchkasem Road
(between Soi 63/1 and Soi 65)
Hua Hin
Phone: 032 532 650 / 083 801 1335
info@learningcentre.co.th
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Interesting idea bapak. What exactly does a tone class involve? Other than the obvious. Anything more than a group of people repeating the speech patterns of a native Thai speaker? Any reading or writing?

Are these aimed at students of any particular level of study?

Good luck. It's a novel approach.
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Noz wrote:Interesting idea bapak. What exactly does a tone class involve? Other than the obvious. Anything more than a group of people repeating the speech patterns of a native Thai speaker? Any reading or writing?

Are these aimed at students of any particular level of study?

Good luck. It's a novel approach.
Yes... as your first paragraph infers...
No particular level.
Reading and Writing not offered but is available at: http://learningcentre.co.th/ On the right side panel is a button "I Love Thai Language..". Chapter 3 is devoted to Tones.
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I am a potential paying student of Thai language study who will be coming to Hua Hin in July and August of 2012.

Possibly I can learn, by myself, the rules for Thai tones that are indicated in the Thai script.

For the moment, however, I am trying to learn to recognize the five levels of tones just by hearing them.

For this I have been using the a very popular Thai language quiz site, following the following options

/ Lessons / Quizzes / Listening for the Tone in one syllable words.

For me, I expect that recognizing and producing the Thai tones will be the hardest part of learning Thai (if I learn it). This is probably partly due to my age (60) and musical tone ability (zero). Sometimes, for example, I have a hard time distinguishing the Low vs Mid tone, and the High vs. Falling tone. I have consulted an educated native speaker of Bangkok Thai who has listened to some of these sound files with me. She sometimes disagrees with the tones indicated on aforementioned site. Maybe that disagreement is normal and due to different social class background and opinions about what is "appropriate" Thai, but I am not really concerned right now with what tone a word "should" have. What I want to do is, upon hearing a word, be able to identify the tone that it has, regardless of whether it is considered "correct" or "incorrect" by different types of Thai people. That is my goal right now, and that is what I would want you to teach me, if I were to take a tone class with you in July and August.

So I would like to ask you, as my potential teacher of Thai tones, two questions:

1. What do you think of the exercise on the Thai language site that I have just mentioned? Is it a good site for learning Thai tones? Why or why not?

2. What could your tone lessons provide that the above mentioned site cannot provide?

Thank you, and I look forward to reading your response

TJ
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What is the URL for this site? " For this I have been using the a very popular Thai language quiz site, following the following options"
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Hi Bapak.
Here is the link. You will see 'Quizzes' when you scroll down.
http://www.thai-language.com/lessons
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Thank you guru.

(I am not allowed to post the URL, because I am a newcomer.)
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I finally was able to talk to our number 1 Thai language teacher (she is a busy girl). Her response below is verbatim and I have not corrected any grammar:

1. Student has to know consonants and vowels to apply to the tone rules to be able to know that tone sound of that word correctly, then you can identify the tone of that word ( not likely for foreigner ) . We can teach tone rules in class.
2. The site is not bad at all for students to practice speaking more Thai sentences and learn the meaning, but cannot help to identify tones.
3. Our lessons will give structure of the tone rules which never change ( need to know 3 consonant classes, vowels, final consonants, and tone marks )This will help you to identify the tone, as required of any words and then practice to say it as close as possible. Mouth position is very important.
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Also go to: http://learningcentre.co.th/files/lovethai/menu.swf Chapter 3 "Tone marks".
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Dear Bapak

Thank you for going to the trouble to provide me with the information above.

I really appreciate it!

TJ
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tijeigrin wrote:Dear Bapak

Thank you for going to the trouble to provide me with the information above.

I really appreciate it!

TJ
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