Thai In-focus 3: Numbers and Time

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The most complete, focused and effective way to learn all aspects of Thai numbers and time

From the author of the best selling Speak Thai and Speak Isaan Thai (book and DVD), this Thai In-focus: Numbers and Time DVD + booklet is the most complete, focused and effective way to learn all aspects of Thai numbers and time. It covers the topic in a depth, breadth, relevance and insight beyond what is covered in most standard Thai courses and books. In the process it teaches 100’s of practical everyday words you’ll use and hear everyday.

To ensure your learning success this Thai Infocus package includes:

• A 96 page booklet featuring all the lessons.
• A DVD with pictorial audio-visual slideshows featuring all the tones, words and phrases contained in the lessons. You see, hear and speak all the words and sounds featured in our lessons.
• Check your learning exercises.
• An extensive English –Thai word glossary.

The course is ideal for beginners as well as more advanced or experienced Thai language learners. Lessons teach language knowledge whilst the DVD slideshows teach how to hear and say Thai tones and words correctly. Together they teach you how to speak everyday Thai with the correct pronunciation and tones.

The booklet and DVD has a comprehensive range of learner-friendly features which can help you learn Thai.

Thai In-focus: Numbers and Time teaches:

• Numbers one - one billion
• Classifiers and their use
• Telling the time
• Days of the week
• Months
• How to give the date in Thai
• The Thai calendar
• Talking about times of the day
• Key vocabulary and phrasing

 In the process you will learn:

• Colloquial pronunciation of numbers 21 - 29
• How to say ordinal numbers
• The twenty main classifier words you should know
• Classifier use when the noun and classifier word are the same
• Rule for using single and higher unit numbers with classifiers
• How the Thai clock is split into four distinct periods
• How a.m. times can be expressed with unit numbers 1 - 5 or 7 - 11
• The origins of Thai time keeping and time words
• How to say minutes to and past the hour
• Indicating degrees of time
• How to say times using the 24 hour clock
• Days of the week and their colour associations
• How Thai words for each month indicate the number of days the month has in it
• How to express Thai dates and years
• How and why Thai calendars accurately show lunar waning and waxing states
• How to describe day parts
• Talking about early and late
• Day words that indicate present, past and future
• Combining time periods with day parts
• Indicating present, past and future days, weeks, months and years
• Plus much more!

In the process of learning the above you will enhance your speaking and listening skills with the audio visual slideshows that feature all words and phrases in the book.

DVD details:

PAL / region free                 PC/TV playable             Length: 1 hour

If you want to learn to speak Thai numbers and time words effectively in Thai conversations then this course is for you. What you learn, you will use!

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Note: The contents of Speak Thai Infocus 3 is based on lessons featured in Speak Thai Volume 2 and the Speak Thai Intermediate Online course.

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