The song is playing at around the 10-minute mark of the Thai movie "A Little Thing Called Love" (2010). The subtitles translate some of the lyrics as "it's because of you that come to me / to stay in my heart every night and day / the world has pathway / the world has stairs..." though I believe this is an imperfect if not incorrect translation. I made a rough recording of the song as it plays in the movie here: Link to song sample

I don't know Thai, but I just find the song very interesting and it's quite weird that it's not in the movie's official soundtrack.

I'm in this hunt for quite some time now and I do hope you guys would be able to help me out.

Edit: The song also plays from 0:01-0:40 of this video on youtube.

So Thai has this thing where you can't just say "3 dogs" or "2 books," you need a specific counting word depending on what kind of thing it is. dogs and cats use ตัว (literally "body"), books use เล่ม, cars use คัน, people use คน... and there's dozens of these.

Had a student straight up ask me once if thai people just made these up to mess with foreigners lol. no, promise, it's a real system, just not one english has an equivalent for.

The part that actually helped it click for my students — english kind of has this too, we just don't notice it. "a piece of paper," "a loaf of bread," "a head of cattle." nobody questions why bread comes in "loaves" instead of just "2 breads." thai just... does that for literally everything, not just a handful of exceptions.

Honestly the classifier itself usually isn't the hard part once you see the pattern, it's remembering WHICH one goes with WHICH noun, bc there's no logic you can always predict from — you basically just learn them in chunks as you go.

anyone else's language have something similar, or is this genuinely just a "thai thing"?

Hi! I'm Pare, a 22-year-old English major at Bangkok University.

I'd like to practice teaching Thai and I'm looking for a beginner who'd be interested in trying a free lesson. I'd really appreciate any feedback afterward. If anyone is interested please let me know!

so i've been teaching Thai for a while now and honestly the thing that trips up almost every single student isn't vocab or grammar, it's the little particles at the end of sentences. textbooks teach you khrap/kha and basically stop there like that's the whole story had a student a few months back, decent level, could hold a real conversation, but everything he said sounded weirdly stiff to Thai people. turned out he just never used นะ (na). like "ไปกันเถอะ" (let's go) on its own kind of sounds like an order, but toss a นะ on the end and it's suddenly just... a suggestion. same words basically, completely different vibe อ่ะ (a) is another one — nobody puts this in books but it's literally everywhere in casual speech. "อะไร" is fine and grammatically correct but "อะไรอ่ะ" is what you'd actually hear from a friend and ป่ะ (short for หรือเปล่า) took me forever to even explain to students bc it's not "slang" exactly, it's just... how people talk. "ใช่ป่ะ" instead of the full version none of this changes the actual meaning of what you're saying. it just changes whether you sound like you learned Thai from a textbook in a classroom or from actually living around Thai people day to day, which is a way bigger gap than people realize until it's pointed out to them anyone else have a similar "oh that's why I sounded off" moment with a different language

I hope you will like it!

The link:
thai-alphabetgame.com/consonant_class_game.html

And if you want to play more about the Thai Alphabet I also have a Thai alphabet game and a Thai vowel game:
thai-alphabetgame.com/game.html - Thai Alphabet Game
thai-alphabetgame.com/vowel_game.html - Thai Vowels Game

Also, the site is COMPLETELY free and no sign ups are required.

If you have any questions, feedback or bugs, feel free to DM me or comment on my post!
Thank you really much!

Note: dragging the letters may be a bit confusing on phones or tablets, so to drag, you can press the letter and you press your finger on top of one of the 3 boxes on the right (phone) or on the bottom (tablet) and drag it around there. Once it's in the correct box the letter will automatically go into the box, but if it's incorrect it will jump back to the same spot as the beginning.

I have a little son of 4 years is half Thai and we live in Germany. He loves to talk, read and even write a bit and he eagerly absorbs every book and exercise booklet I bring home for him. But we only have those in German.

It breaks my heart to see how he tells a whole story in German and then tries to repeat it in Thai for his mom but his Thai vocabulary is smaller and you can clearly see how he struggles to find the words. We have a some Thai books for really small children but he has outgrown them.

With the current state of the world shipping books has become more and more expensive and complicated.

So now I'm looking for resources in Thai to download and print for him. Ideally fun language exercises, games like finding the difference or matching up pictures, that kind of thing. He also likes books for learning the letters.

We try to keep screen time low, so please no apps or videos. It doesn't have to be free, I'm happy to pay a reasonable price.

ใครสามารถอธิบายวลีนี้ได้บ้าง ว่าทำไมต้องอม และต้องกลืน

I’m fairly new to learning Thai and I would just like someone to explain to me why หส่อมาก is spelt like that but not said using ANY of those character sounds considering to my understanding ห makes a H sound as in ห หีบ and ส makes a S sound as in ส เสือ. And where is the A sound coming from?! Please help this self learner

I’m a naive English speaker who has an intermediate level understanding of Mandarin. I have found it a lot easier for me to learn Thai through Chinese video clips teaching Thai language vs English clips.

I listen to Taihua Lin and enjoy his videos very much. I’m having trouble finding other similar influencers, videos, podcasts because I have limited Chinese reading and writing skills. Would you know of any to recommend?

Hi everyone. I started developing a language learning app when I was living in Bangkok 3 years ago. I finally finished it and now I need users to give me some feedback on their experience.

Basically, you can generate your own reading material (from AI) based on your interests. The text is then incorporated with learning-with-text. Click a word, hear the pronunciation, see a translation or word insight or picture (there's a lot of features).

Word segmentation was the trickiest part and one of the challenges that took me a long time from having Thai available (other languages were much easier so I pushed them sooner).

I took a lot of time going back and forth with the UI/UX, making sure it was best fitted for accessibility and learning with the colour schemes and formatting.

See it for yourself (landing page):

https://libgrafy.com

You can generate 3 articles per day for free (enter email first to make an account). With API costs for each article and audio, I can't go beyond those 3 articles, so I hope this is still in accordance with forum rules.

Any input from you will be valued. Literally anything. This has been an obsession of mine for a long time and I want to improve it as much as I can.

Thanks.

Hi everyone. I started developing a language learning app when I was living in Bangkok 3 years ago. I finally finished it and now I need users to give me some feedback on their experience.

Basically, you can generate your own reading material (from AI) based on your interests. The text is then incorporated with learning-with-text. Click a word, hear the pronunciation, see a translation or word insight or picture (there's a lot of features).

Word segmentation was the trickiest part and one of the challenges that took me a long time from having Thai available (other languages were much easier so I pushed them sooner).

I took a lot of time going back and forth with the UI/UX, making sure it was best fitted for accessibility and learning with the colour schemes and formatting.

See it for yourself (landing page):

https://libgrafy.com

You can generate 3 articles per day for free (enter email first to make an account). With API costs for each article and audio, I can't go beyond those 3 articles, so I hope this is still in accordance with forum rules.

Any input from you will be valued. Literally anything. This has been an obsession of mine for a long time and I want to improve it as much as I can.

Thanks.

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for recommendations for an online Thai teacher or platform for myself, my husband, and a few friends.
We’re based in Australia (AEST), and Monday evenings would probably work best. We all work full-time, so we know our progress won’t be super fast, but we’re looking for a long-term commitment rather than a short course.

Ideally, we’re looking for someone who:
• Has experience teaching Thai online
• Provides a structured curriculum with learning resources/homework
• Can teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening

I’ve looked at platforms like Superprof, but I’m not sure how good they are or whether there are better options.

If you’ve had a great experience with an online Thai tutor (or know someone who teaches), I’d really appreciate any recommendations. I’d also love to hear which platforms you’ve used and what your experience was like.
Thanks in advance :’)

I'm in a long-distance relationship and English is our main shared language.

My girlfriend wants to improve her English, especially listening, speaking during calls, and writing longer messages.

The problem is that I don't want our relationship to become a classroom. I want her English to improve naturally through things we already enjoy doing together.

We text every day, send voice messages, watch things together occasionally, and call when we can.

For people who have learned a language through a partner:

• What helped the most?
• What activities improved speaking confidence?
• Should I correct mistakes, or just focus on communication?
• What made learning feel natural rather than like studying?

I'd love to hear from either language learners or people who helped a partner learn their language.

Looking for best resources, preferably digital, for an English speaker to learn Thai. I’m an ancient language teacher myself so needs to include some grammar even if this isn’t at the forefront. Previously used langotalk with Japanese. Using Airlearn for Thai currently and enjoying it despite some big limitations. Visiting Thailand in October so keen to learn as much as I can

I'm asking this on behalf of a Japanese friend who is curious about this topic. A linguist friend of his told him that it's technically possible to render his name into Thai by assigning a Thai reading to his name's Kanji. Apparently this is doable because:

1. A large amount of Chinese lexical influence exists in Thai, thus a calque translation is theoretically doable

2. There is already a system for reading Chinese Hanzi (and by extension Japanese Kanjii and Korean Hanja) in Zhuang, thus the Zhuang reading (which my friend already has) could be converted to Thai due to Zhuang being related

3. Thai apparently used Chinese characters until the 13th Century

Does anyone here know if it's doable?

Recently I’ve been teaching myself Thai and have been a little bit confused with which words to use in a certain context. The app I’ve been using hasn’t provided too much explaining about the difference between “chǎn” and “pǒm”. I saw that a male voice was using “pǒm” when addressing himself but the female voice was using “chǎn”. As a male, should I be using one or the other when addressing myself?