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You don't need to be an artist to learn Thai the RAPID way - but it helps!
by the author of Read Thai in a Day
Here are some of the words we've covered so far in our "stick figure" lessons.
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ทราย Two sigh-ing lovers walking hand-in-hand along the sand (no tone). |
ใส่ The same lovers sunbathing naked |
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Story Chains for remembering all your vocabulary in one go: Two SIGH-ing lovers walk hand-in-hand along the sand. They both feel a bit "hot", so they lie down together. But the man says to the woman, "Put on these sexy stocking before I put it in!" They spend so much time screwing that they don't notice the time. They're late for the last bus. They rush back up the hill and they get there just as the bus pulls in to the bus stop on the left hand side of the street. They get home really late at night.It's DARK. When they got home, they discovered that someone had been MURDERed, and they tried to cover it up by burning the victim's house down. "Oh no!" cried the girl. "Those are MY bags and shoes inside!" She rushed inside and threw them out the window, but they landed in the mud, ruined. "Now I'm going to have to buy new ones!" she complained. A fireman was trying to put out the fire from the top of a wooden ladder, but it was no use. He was a COLONEL and tried all night to fight the blaze. Every hour from 1am to 6am, his (Italian) wife brought him some TEA, but in the morning she had had enough. "CIAO" she waved, as she went home to bed. Her lover came BY in the afternoon and woke her up... Her husband comes home to find them having supPER UNder the table. "He's only a friend," she smiles sweetly… |
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Elefin Cafe, Sukhumvit Soi 1 [Ploenchit Skytrain] – see map below |
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18.00-21.00 (dinner break 19.00-19.30) |
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Mondays |
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1,200 baht per class walk-in price, 1,000 baht advanced payment |
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3,600 baht for four classes paid in advance |
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Please contact me for booking details... |
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What's the greatest difficulty you have in communicating in any language?
It's having the vocabulary with which to express yourself and understand what people are saying!
Note. This course focuses mostly on developing a useful vocabulary for getting around, asking directions and buying things. The grammar and language instruction will be minimal. It is designed to complement a more comprehensive Thai language course.
You will gain a fundamental grounding in how to speak and understand Thai, and thinking tools and strategies for learning Thai effectively on your own. However, after this course, you should learn to read and then find a Thai language teacher who will help you to read and understand the subtleties of Thai. You should practice speaking and listening with your Thai friends and colleagues.
The RAPID approach is based on using bizarre, shocking, funny visual pictures and stories to acquire a huge vocabulary and develop a linguistic infrastructure.
You will find yourself communicating in basic Thai within a few weeks, without the need to memorize anything!
Our brains are designed to remember images instantly. Think about a recent book you read. Can you remember the actual words used to tell the story? Now think of a movie you watched recently. You can probably recall most of the scenarios in vivid detail - after watching it only once.
In these fun and friendly workshops, we will draw pictures and tell stories for all the most common words you will need for speaking "Taxi Thai" - getting around, asking for directions, buying things... You will learn how to say late, left, with, put in, put on and sand just by using the word "sigh"! And you will also learn how a "cow" is white, enter, rice, news, knee, stench and he/she/they.
You don't need to be an artist (although it helps). Stick figures will do!
Elefin Cafe - Sukhumvit Soi 1 - Ploenchit BTS
180m from the top of the soi, directly opposite the German restaurant.
About the instructor
How is it that a foreigner (who isn't fluent in Thai himself yet!) can lead a Thai language course? Well, Gary is a specialist in Accelerated Learning techniques, Applied Thinking and practical approaches to Lifelong Learning. As adults, we have a tremendous advantage over children, because we know so much more and can think abstractly. This means we can simplify and think strategically when it comes to learning a new skill. And as a foreigner, like you, he understands what the particular difficulties we have in learning Thai. Something that even experienced Thai teachers cannot comprehend. It is still important to work with experienced Thai teachers when you get to a more advanced level, but Gary will show you how to take what you already know in your own language and culture and use that as a basis for developing your knowledge and understanding of Thai.
Gary Orman