This chapter is recommended for all students, from beginners to advanced. You should focus on good tone pronunciation right from the start. Chapter 1 helps you to build a strong foundation.

Learn to Add, Subtract, and Count. This chapter is highly recommended for beginners. Numbers are quite useful for practicing your tone pronunciation. The number 2 (săwng) has a rising tone. The number 4 (sèe) has a low tone. With little a bit of practice, you will soon be speaking Thai with tones!

Sentence Drills * Practice Tones * Write Thai Numbers

This is another excellent chapter for beginners. It puts into practice what you will learn in Chapters 1 and 2. If you study this chapter, you will never again confuse the number 4 (sèe) a low tone, with the word meaning "color" (sĕe) a rising tone.

Build Your Vocabulary * Improve Your Comprehension

* Practice Numbers and Colors in Sentences *

Chapter 4 has a large vocabulary and is more advanced than the previous chapters. You can really build your lexicon quickly by using the flash cards.

How to Tell the Time * Months of the Year * Days of the Week

Flash Cards * Quizzes * Practice Drills

If you have worked your way up to Chapter 5, you are no longer a beginner. You are ready to start using Thai in the market. As a side benefit, you will find a strong correlation between your Thai language skills and the prices you pay!

Bargain for the Best Prices * Buying and Selling

Flash Cards * Quizzes * Practice Drills

This chapter is essential for conversational Thai. Getting to know people and making friends means more opportunity to practice your Thai. Thai people are your teachers and Thailand is your classroom. This chapter is the entrance to that classroom.

Greetings and Small Talk * How to Ask and Answer Questions

Flash Cards * Quizzes * Practice Drills

If you are still ordering "fried rice" because it's the only thing you can say, then this is the chapter for you. Learn about the tasty Thai dishes you have been missing.

Soups * Entrees * Curries * Sticky Rice * Noodles

Flash Cards * Quizzes * Practice Drills * Extra Audio&Video

Thai people are usually Usually more than happy to help you, but sometimes you need to ask. If you are traveling in Thailand, this chapter will make your stay a lot more comfortable.

How to Get a Nice Room at a Fair Price

Clean * Cheap * Bed and Bath Vocabulary

Flash Cards * Quizzes * Practice Drills * Audio and Video

If you venture off of the tourist path, this chapter is essential. Knowing a little Thai makes travel much easier and a lot more fun. The quizzes at the end of the chapter are based on real experiences.

* Asking for Directions * Popular Travel Destinations *

Car * Bus * Train * Sky Train * Subway * Air * Boat

This chapter helps you learn nearly 200 common expressions and Thai idioms. Ever wonder what's really going on in a Thai persons head? Experience the flavor of the language. Get a sense of the culture.

* Includes Audio and Video *

* Both Standard Translation and Literal Meaning *

Who said learning Thai isn't fun? When the author of this course taught the English version of this conversation to Buddhist monks in Chiang Mai, they just couldn't stop laughing. This is a great chapter for getting your Thai up to speed. Enjoy.

Fast paced Video and a bit slower Audio

Learn How to Use Thai Idioms In a Conversation

Telephone Conversation * Ordering Food * Travel Directions

This may well be the single most important chapter in the course - not because it teaches you how to write, but because it is so effective in helping you to learn tone pronunciation. This is a big chapter, with a lot of meat. Chapter 12 is highly recommended for all students, from beginners to advanced.

* Grammar Used in Context *

* Thai Word Order * Question Words *

Classifiers * Particles * Vocabulary for Language Learning

Verb "Tense" * Past * Present * Future * Present Continuous

Connecting Words * Gâw (ก็) * Hâi (ให้) * Têe (ที่) * Wâh (ว่า)

Chapters 13 through 15 are substitution drills. These are sentences that build on each other by changing some words and adding more. These drills are written in a conversational style, designed to broaden your speaking abilities and increase your speed. Chapter 13 adds "money vocabulary" and includes eighty practice drills.

* Buying and Selling *

* Bargaining for Low Prices *

* Spending Money * Making Money *

Chapter 14 includes seventy substitution drills, designed to improve your fluency in health realted matters.

Sickness * Injury * Medicine

* Doctors * Dentists * Nurses *

* Hospitals * Clinics * Drug Stores *

Chapter 15 has over eighty substitution drills, designed to help you communicate. From genuine affection to a 'walk on the wild side', this chapter has more than you will ever need to know about romantic relationships.

* No, I Don't Want a Woman *

Sweet Talk * Whispering * Kissing

* Marriage * "Minor Wives" * Girlfriends *

Thai Yài is the language of the Shan people. Thai Yài (known as Dtái) is the most wideley used language in the Shan State of northeastern Burma. In Thailand, the Shan are concentrated in Mae Hong Son province. There are pockets of Thai Yài speakers scattered throughout northern Thailand. This chapter introduces the basics of Thai Yài and compares it with its close cousin --Thai. Audio was provided by a Budhhist monk from Burma's Wa State.

* Vowels and Consonants *

* Comparison of Thai Yài and Central Thai *

Chapter 17 is recommended for all students - from beginner to advanced. This chapter explains how the tone of a syllable is determined by its spelling. Chapter 17 includes ninetneen writing drills, new vocabulary, and many example sentences.

Chapter 17, by itself, can serve as a basic course in the Thai language. It is a powerful resource for learning tone pronunciation as well as writing. (127 pages with audio and video).

* How to Draw Letters *

* Words that Rhyme *

* Dipthongs and Tripthongs *

* Listen * Speak * Read * Write *

Chapter 18 is for intermediate through advanced students. It includes 200 terms realated to technology, computers, and mobile phones. Practice drills use these technical terms in context and introduce more advanced gramatical constuctions. For learning about the language of technology in Thai, this is the most comprehensive instruction material available.

* Internet * Email * Software *

* Hardware * Troubleshooting * Repair *

* Using a Computer * Networks * Wi-Fi *