Video #2 of a series about Thai Reading/Pronunciation. The 1st half of the Thai vowels are covered in this video. Watch Thai Vowels Part 2/2 here: bit.ly/2vE0RMl
Hey I know this video is 4 years old but as someone who is new to Thai and learning from a book (having spent 5 years or so studying 日本語) I'm finding your work a great supplement for pronunciation. I've been pronouncing เอ wrong for example, like the Japanese え but it's a different sound. Your video on tones helped clear a lot up too. Much appreciated!
Im just starting to learn Thai and you are clearest teacher I found so far.. I will watch all your videos. Hoping I can learn very well.. Thank you very much.
Dave, thank you so much for this video!!! I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I noticed that some of the vowel sounds are similar to vowels in Portuguese. I'm trying to learn Thai but I couldn't find some good videos on TH-cam, and finally I came across this masterpiece! Thank you so much!!!!!!
I enjoy this video a lot! This is how my Thai language teacher teaches. I've actually studied Thai consonants so it helps a lot. Keep it up! Looking forward to more of your videos. :D
Excellent! I am somewhat hearing impaired and just listening to your pronunciation of the vowels has been the most helpful. I was immediately able to improve my own pronunciation of Thai words. Thank you so much.
Hey! I don’t know if you’ll see this comment, but I want to say that I’ve been trying to learn Thai for a couple months now, but have been having difficulty learning it, but I just found this this morning and you seem to teach in a way that I can see what’s going on well! I look forward to watching more of your lessons!
dave voetberg they certainly have been! Though I’m still nowhere near being able to read Xp I wonder if maybe you could look into making podcasts as well?
OhhGolly, thank you so much and I found your tutorial and it indeed helps a lot. This is the most comprehensive and easy to learn Thai language. Thank you so much for making this easy. Hugs from Philippines. 🇵🇭🇹🇭
Thanks alot for this video! It's helped me heaps... really like the idea to try to memorize most sounds instead of trying to compare it to a sound in English as you can mislead yourself into thinking it's that sound when it's not.
After living in Thailand for the past 6 yrs., I have come to the conclusion that anything that is simple and easy, Thais will make complicated and difficult. Their language is confounding.
Hang in there. I still find myself struggling with Thai after 9 years of being here, too. At the same time, I think if we had to learn English over again, we would probably have similar feelings about our own language.
I don't know about that. After a year in Greece, I could read and write and speak & understand well enough to have a simple conversation. Thai is far more complicated that English. Thai has more vowels than English has letters.
I'm actually learning thai sir and I accidentally found your video and I'm a beginner and it's pretty simple and easy to memories all those vowels because my mother toung helped me and I can find all these sounds in it and your explanation was so energetic and thanks for spending your time for explaining and help me in improving sir thank u
@@davevoetberg Yeah hindi have similar sounds .. my first language is also hindi thatswhy the lecture seems easier, Thanks sir for this lecture lots of love from India 🖤💕
Sa was dee khrap k Dave...Thank you so much for this amazing video....I love Thailand & I love learning Thai ....in six month I can speak 60% Thai & just started to write Thai .....your video is such a great help ...Thank you again ......khop Khun mak khrap...sa-was-dee-kharp 🙏🙏 Shyam India
Yap, once again. It is super clear and systematic. I am totally amazed. I like your teaching style and I think you are one of the best on youtube. I now become your fan, lol.
ดีมาก,ขอขอบคุณครับ for making this great video. When you were going through them with your hand at the end, I was hoping you would pronounce them all out loud again so I wouldn’t have to go back and find your excellent pronunciation. Summing things up like that is a big help. Maybe something to think about for future videos? In any case, thanks for taking the time to make something so helpful.
Hello! Would you consider continuing with Thai language videos by introducing some words and building up to sentences? You could charge money for it, I'd definitely buy it!
Baby Sis Sure. Paiboon Publishing uses the system I mentioned. A lady named Benjawan Poomsan Becker did a book called 'Learn Thai for Beginners' which uses the system, I believe. Also, you can look into the '3 way' Thai dictionary by Paiboon Publishing. Good resource.
Do you happen to know if the abrupt:"uggh" sound that you mention as not having an English equivalent, /ɯ/in IPA? Again, I'm studying Linguistics... Thanks again!
David, สวัสดีปีใหม่ & thanks a lot. I miss immediate word examples though. Eg กะละมังfor ะ, Please bear with my sharing the ONLY method I discovered as working (to me), none of the proposed rote learning and memorising of isolated consonants nor vowels actually does produce lasting and functional results. Not for me and I don't think for anybody else either. Knowing the vowels inventory, I take known vocabulary, eg สวัสดี, and learn to type it out on the Thai keyboard on my cellphone. Next I force myself to actually WRITE known words. It's literally that learning by DOING kind of thing. Thoughts?
Hi there Mike, Thanks for sharing. Honestly, I understand that not everyone may find the way I teach to be the most helpful way for them to learn. That's fine. Being that this has worked for me, I just go about teaching it this way. But I would use whatever method of learning Thai that suits your learning style. I do get into writing out words later on in this series, but I find that baby steps & bite-sized pieces tend to be the way to go with foreign languages & then building from there. Thanks Mike.
Have you just started learning Thai? If so, I would recommend Thai For Beginners by Benjawan Poomsan Becker. That's the most helpful I know of at the beginner level.
อึ (-ue) pronounce like when you have an interjection like" hmph! " or when you stress an English alphabet as the last letter , for example you pronounce a word "cat" then you stress the "t" sound as tue.😉
Something I want to add is that most of us write xุ xู at the bottom center of the consonant and not the bottom right. You can do that but in the video it's too extreme.
You really need to learn to be more efficient in your delivery. Three minutes into this video I still haven’t learned a thing. Too much talking, not enough action.
Hi Richard, I'm seeking to lay a detailed foundation for those wanting to get into the ins & outs of reading Thai. I understand my teaching style may not be for everyone. Thanks for the suggestion.
It took you 5 minutes to jump right in. Expect a few people would have jumped right out by then. Then another minutes to talk about the 1st vowel, sorry to boring for me. Bye.
xะ5:05 xา7:03 xิ7:41 xี8:02
xึ8:46 xื9:35 xุ9:57 xู10:12
เxะ11:54 เx12:19 แxะ12:54 แx13:12
โxะ13:40 โx14:03 เxาะ14:47 xอ15:05
very helpful review
Can you help me to learn thai?
Thanks 🙏🏻
@@videostoryable4166no😂
Actually very helpful....not pretending it's easy as others, you really helped me more. Looking forward to the next lesson. Thumbs up
Meg Merillies Glad to hear that. Thanks!
Hey I know this video is 4 years old but as someone who is new to Thai and learning from a book (having spent 5 years or so studying 日本語) I'm finding your work a great supplement for pronunciation. I've been pronouncing เอ wrong for example, like the Japanese え but it's a different sound. Your video on tones helped clear a lot up too. Much appreciated!
You're welcome.
Im just starting to learn Thai and you are clearest teacher I found so far.. I will watch all your videos. Hoping I can learn very well.. Thank you very much.
Well done buddy, it's so logically organised and explained, by far the best Thai language teaching videos I've come across.
Thank you very much
well done Dave - youre the first guy Ive watched who talks about short and long tones.
Thank you Petter. Hope the teachings prove helpful.
Dave, thank you so much for this video!!! I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I noticed that some of the vowel sounds are similar to vowels in Portuguese. I'm trying to learn Thai but I couldn't find some good videos on TH-cam, and finally I came across this masterpiece! Thank you so much!!!!!!
Angelo Daniel Glad it's been helpful, Angelo. Thanks for the encouragement.
Finally I found someone who explains clearly, great work brother
God Bless you
Thank you :)
I enjoy this video a lot! This is how my Thai language teacher teaches. I've actually studied Thai consonants so it helps a lot.
Keep it up! Looking forward to more of your videos. :D
May Thwe Htun Thank you May!
A fab way of learning thanks again Dave.
Best wishes from me here in the UK.
Excellent! I am somewhat hearing impaired and just listening to your pronunciation of the vowels has been the most helpful. I was immediately able to improve my own pronunciation of Thai words. Thank you so much.
i loved your way of explaining, and i just realised that my first language is arabic, but here i am learning thai throught english ahahaha
Hey! I don’t know if you’ll see this comment, but I want to say that I’ve been trying to learn Thai for a couple months now, but have been having difficulty learning it, but I just found this this morning and you seem to teach in a way that I can see what’s going on well! I look forward to watching more of your lessons!
Thanks for sharing. Hope the lessons prove helpful to you.
dave voetberg they certainly have been! Though I’m still nowhere near being able to read Xp
I wonder if maybe you could look into making podcasts as well?
Another gem of a Thai lesson . Thank you again.
This is really helpful as I'm learning to read. Thanks a lot, Dave! I can tell you put a big effort into these videos.
Frederik Gail You're welcome, Frederik. Glad they're helpful. The big effort mostly came more when I was learning all these myself :) Keep at it!
Dave, thanks to your blog which I recorded off line to hear and app Thai concenant
OhhGolly, thank you so much and I found your tutorial and it indeed helps a lot. This is the most comprehensive and easy to learn Thai language. Thank you so much for making this easy. Hugs from Philippines. 🇵🇭🇹🇭
You're welcome. Glad the videos have been helpful.
Thanks alot for this video! It's helped me heaps... really like the idea to try to memorize most sounds instead of trying to compare it to a sound in English as you can mislead yourself into thinking it's that sound when it's not.
Gavin You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.
Your explanations are so helpful!!!
Shunze Yang Thanks. Glad they help.
8:35
The first time in my life I'm glad my first language is Russian. This sound is known to me.
Ы-Ы-Ы-Ы !!!!
Awesome!
Same😂
Same but for Bulgarian, yes!
Знаком, именно потому что пришёл этот звук из азиатских языков во времена Золотой орды. Ранее этого звука в славянских языках не было
I'm so happy that my first language is Thai too when I learn Russian lol with the xื, xึ sound. At first I didn't recognize it was the same sound lol.
After living in Thailand for the past 6 yrs., I have come to the conclusion that anything that is simple and easy, Thais will make complicated and difficult. Their language is confounding.
Hang in there. I still find myself struggling with Thai after 9 years of being here, too.
At the same time, I think if we had to learn English over again, we would probably have similar feelings about our own language.
I don't know about that. After a year in Greece, I could read and write and speak & understand well enough to have a simple conversation. Thai is far more complicated that English. Thai has more vowels than English has letters.
I'm actually learning thai sir and I accidentally found your video and I'm a beginner and it's pretty simple and easy to memories all those vowels because my mother toung helped me and I can find all these sounds in it and your explanation was so energetic and thanks for spending your time for explaining and help me in improving sir thank u
Mahendra Rimmalapudi You're welcome.
@@davevoetberg Yeah hindi have similar sounds .. my first language is also hindi thatswhy the lecture seems easier, Thanks sir for this lecture lots of love from India 🖤💕
Have you learned thai bro ?
wow! I really easily understand this. thank you David.
Sasuke Kun You're welcome.
David your explanation is the best I learned so much from you. Thanks and keep it up
You're welcome. Thank you.
I sure wish you would continue this..... it's so much better that whatever else is out there.......
Thanks Dave. Busy month right now, but I'll see if I can get another one up in October.
Wow. Though I'm subscribing Native-Thai you-tuber, yet I just understand clearly the vowel sounds in your explanation Dave.
New subscribers here I’m from 🇵🇭 learning 🇹🇭 Thank you for your video 👍👍👍
You're welcome. Hope they prove helpful.
This is definitely helpful. Thank you. 🙏
You're welcome Amalia. Thanks!
Hi Dave! I was wondering how long it took you to speak Thai and did you take classes to learn to speak it?
Sa was dee khrap k Dave...Thank you so much for this amazing video....I love Thailand & I love learning Thai ....in six month I can speak 60% Thai & just started to write Thai .....your video is such a great help ...Thank you again ......khop Khun mak khrap...sa-was-dee-kharp 🙏🙏 Shyam India
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Phanrawee Sriprapha ขอบคุณมากครับ
your explanation is very clear and easily understandable :D this video has really helped me to understand thai alphabets more
Yoha Nes Glad to help.
its really nice and most of the sounds are really realatable sounds to tamil language. thank you so much
It really help me a lot thanks to this
Yap, once again. It is super clear and systematic. I am totally amazed. I like your teaching style and I think you are one of the best on youtube. I now become your fan, lol.
Thanks. Glad they're helpful.
Wow!!! Great teaching technique! 👍😄🙏
Marcos R. Thanks Marcos
สุดยอดเลยครับ อาจารย์ 👍👍👍👍
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ดีมาก,ขอขอบคุณครับ for making this great video. When you were going through them with your hand at the end, I was hoping you would pronounce them all out loud again so I wouldn’t have to go back and find your excellent pronunciation. Summing things up like that is a big help. Maybe something to think about for future videos? In any case, thanks for taking the time to make something so helpful.
You're welcome. And thanks for the tip.
Great video really helpful
Glad to help, Adrian. Thanks.
thank.you.
You're welcome :)
it's so clear!!!!!!!thanks
You're welcome.
Thank you for this video it's really helpful but can you teach us Thai phrases and how its construct in a sentence. Thank you so much❤️
Thanks for teacher 🖒🇧🇷💚💛💙
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Thank you!
Apostol Marinov You're welcome.
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Rock n Roll star ยินดีครับ
hi mate, how did you learn thai? What do you think is the best course out there online to learn?
thank you for this!
You're welcome!
Thank you man.
Nicolás Morrone Clar You're welcome.
Hi! I am from Thailand
Your Thai language is very excellent.
I think you were Thai people.
Koh shanya Thanks a lot.
tnx for this ,, i can now distinguish which is long or short vowel
Thanks a lot
Brilliant! Thanks.
Glad to help.
learning Korean prior to Thai made me familiar with the sound of ึ and ื. It's kinda like saying eu. Hope it helped 😊
으 = อึ อือ
@@bpin5191 ใช่คุณ 🙂
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Hello! Would you consider continuing with Thai language videos by introducing some words and building up to sentences? You could charge money for it, I'd definitely buy it!
Mid tone is rarely listening in short vowel sounds of thai, but u can hear by the quick speaking words.
The short vowels association(: Great class thank you!
You're welcome. Thanks for the encouragement.
You mentioned a fairly good transliteration tool in your video but i couldnt pick up the name/publishing name? Could you tell me the details please?
Baby Sis Sure. Paiboon Publishing uses the system I mentioned. A lady named Benjawan Poomsan Becker did a book called 'Learn Thai for Beginners' which uses the system, I believe. Also, you can look into the '3 way' Thai dictionary by Paiboon Publishing. Good resource.
You really have a gift with teaching this stuff.
Thanks James. I appreciate the encouragement.
You game me something cool to do during lockdown :)
OtakuLeveledUp Glad to help.
Do you happen to know if the abrupt:"uggh" sound that you mention as not having an English equivalent, /ɯ/in IPA? Again, I'm studying Linguistics... Thanks again!
Not sure on that. Sorry!
Hi David,
What was the name of the publishing Company who you mentioned in your video?
The name of the book would be helpful as well. Thank you
I believe it was Paiboon Publishing. Learn Thai For Beginners by Benjawan Poomsan Becker.
Quick Question: I speak German. Most of the Vowel sounds sound like they do in German? Or am I hearing things?
Bill Voigt Hey there Bill,
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with German at all!
David, สวัสดีปีใหม่ & thanks a lot. I miss immediate word examples though. Eg กะละมังfor ะ,
Please bear with my sharing the ONLY method I discovered as working (to me), none of the proposed rote learning and memorising of isolated consonants nor vowels actually does produce lasting and functional results. Not for me and I don't think for anybody else either.
Knowing the vowels inventory, I take known vocabulary, eg สวัสดี, and learn to type it out on the Thai keyboard on my cellphone. Next I force myself to actually WRITE known words. It's literally that learning by DOING kind of thing. Thoughts?
Hi there Mike,
Thanks for sharing. Honestly, I understand that not everyone may find the way I teach to be the most helpful way for them to learn. That's fine. Being that this has worked for me, I just go about teaching it this way. But I would use whatever method of learning Thai that suits your learning style.
I do get into writing out words later on in this series, but I find that baby steps & bite-sized pieces tend to be the way to go with foreign languages & then building from there. Thanks Mike.
Since Hindi is my first language Thai vowels sounds seems simpler to me coz in hindi the vowels have similar sounds ..
Oops Thai consonants app and your message very helpful.
จุ้ย wife gave me nickname.
Adrian
are there any thai language books u can recommend? i'm having a hard time finding some good ones :((
Have you just started learning Thai? If so, I would recommend Thai For Beginners by Benjawan Poomsan Becker. That's the most helpful I know of at the beginner level.
@@davevoetberg yes i have! thank you!
@@alexad.2536 You're welcome. That would probably be your best bet at this point.
sir your video was really very good but i need a clear A-Z Alphabet chart in english
I'm sorry, I don't provide the English alphabet in these lessons.
อึ (-ue) pronounce like when you have an interjection like" hmph! " or when you stress an English alphabet as the last letter , for example you pronounce a word "cat" then you stress the "t" sound as tue.😉
Thanks for sharing.
Are those b included in Thai or you made it up?
Those are Thai. They make a long 'a' sound (ayy).
dave voetberg thanks
Something I want to add is that most of us write xุ xู at the bottom center of the consonant and not the bottom right. You can do that but in the video it's too extreme.
The right way is at the bottom right.
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สำเนียงภาษาอังกฤษของคุณฟังง่ายมากเลยค่ะ ขนาดเสียงก้องยังฟังง่ายเลย
Sarocha Channgam 55 ขอบคุณครับ
really difficult
Hello I'm Thai and I'm watching How the foreign teach Thai.
But it not have xัวะ xัว เxา ไx ใx xำ
พวกนี้มันสระผสมและสระเกิน อาจจะต้องไปอธิบายต่างหาก
Thanks for watching. Hope the video can help provide some ideas.
euuu = like a "schwa" /ə/in English but then with more exaggeration xD
The comparisons to English make it more complicated 😅
Not too much. Hard
"Let's jump right in"
*Took 5 mins to jump in*
Thanks for watching. Hope the resource was helpful for you.
you're good. but talk too much, want step into the sounds quickly though sorry
เห็น xี แล้วมันยิ้มเองไม่รู้ทำไม
xี
(อึ) u cant compare that to english cuz that sound doesn't exist in english.
Yup, too much talking, but it's a pretty good video
Thanks for the feedback.
You really need to learn to be more efficient in your delivery. Three minutes into this video I still haven’t learned a thing. Too much talking, not enough action.
5 minutes in, still waiting for some actual instruction rather than prelude
Hi Richard,
I'm seeking to lay a detailed foundation for those wanting to get into the ins & outs of reading Thai.
I understand my teaching style may not be for everyone. Thanks for the suggestion.
It took you 5 minutes to jump right in. Expect a few people would have jumped right out by then.
Then another minutes to talk about the 1st vowel, sorry to boring for me. Bye.
tim walker No problem, Tim. Thanks.