Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 Contents

Thai - Hello

Isaan Thai - I drink beer

 Thai - What is your name?

 Isaan Thai - We like you

 Thai - I want a beer Chang

 Isaan Thai - I miss you

 Thai - Can we meet again?

 Isaan Thai - I'll phone you tomorrow

 Thai - Good luck

Isaan Thai - How are you?

Thai - I'm just looking

Isaan Thai - Where do you come from?

Thai - Please switch on the fan

 Isaan Thai - You're welcome

 Thai - Where are the toilets?

Isaan Thai - Do you have a bottle opener?

Thai - Have you eaten yet?

Thai - Hello

Isaan Thai - I drink beer

 Thai - What is your name?

 Isaan Thai - We like you

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Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 Contents

When you buy Speak Isaan Thai Volume 1 you can be confident that you will get a fully rounded course that teaches all aspects of Thai conversation and grammar in an easy to follow, interesting, step by step process. The course has been expertly designed and structured to ensure that in the process of learning practical vocabulary and conversation within highly relevant situations you are taught the key grammar and language knowledge you need to know. You will learn the essential language foundations for Isaan Thai speaking success in all Isaan Thai conversations you participate in.

INTRODUCTION

1. Welcome to Speak Isaan Thai
2. Features
3. Objectives of Speak Isaan Thai
4. Using this book and DVD
5. Transliteration
6. Referring to people from Isaan and the West
7. Why you need to learn Isaan Thai rather than Central Thai
8. Background to N.E. Thailand: Country
9. Background to N.E. Thailand: Language
10. The Thai, Lao and Isaan Thai languages
11. Major differences between Isaan Thai and Central Thai languages
12. Major differences between Isaan Thai and Lao language
13. The journey begins …

 PRONUNCIATION GUIDE

1. Introduction to pronunciation
2. Pronounce an Isaan Thai word correctly
3. Tones
4. Tones: Why tones are important
5. Tones: Tone practice
6. Vowels
7. Vowels: Short and long
8. Vowels: How our phonetic system shows short and long vowel sounds
9. Consonants
10. Consonants: Unfamiliar consonants sounds at the beginning of words
11. Consonants: The ‘ng’ consonant
12. Consonants: Fine tuning your pronunciation of the ‘ng’ sound
13. Consonants: The ‘ny’ consonant
14. Consonants: Fine tuning your pronunciation of the ‘ny’ sound
15. Consonants: The ‘dt’ consonant
16. Consonants: Fine tuning your pronunciation of the ‘dt’ sound
17. Consonants: The ‘bp’ consonant
18. Consonants: Fine tuning your pronunciation of the ‘bp’ sound
19. Consonants: Words ending in ‘p’, ‘t’ and ‘k’ sounds
20. Pronunciation and tone variances
21. Speed of speech
22. Summary

GREETINGS

1. Greetings
2. Tone Practice
3. The basic structure of the language #1
4. The basic structure of the language #2
5. The basic structure of the language #3
6. The basic structure of the language #4
7. The basic structure of the language #5
8. Personal pronouns
9. Personal pronouns: Examples of use
10. Personal pronouns: Omitting personal pronouns
11. Personal pronouns: Noun + pronoun + verb sentence forms
12. Polite particles: ‘kap’ / ‘ka’
13. Polite particles: Function
14. Polite particles: ‘krap pom’
15. Polite particles: ‘jah’
16. Greetings: Saying hello
17. Greetings: The wai
18. Greetings: Responding to store staff wai
19. Greetings: Why infants hate to wai and ‘sa-wad-dee kap’
20. Greetings: ‘bpy sy?’
21. Greetings: Responding to ‘bpy sy?'
22. Greetings: ‘bpy sy mah?’
23. Greetings: Responding to ‘bpy sy mah?’
24. Greetings: Destinations A - Z
25. Greetings: Where you are going?
26. Greetings: Where you have been?
27. Greetings: Responding to bpy …’ and ‘bpy … mah’
28. Greetings: Making two way conversation
29. Greetings: What about you?
30. Greetings: Examples what about you?
31. Greetings: You, you!
32. Greetings: ‘gin kow’
33. Grammar: Reduplication
34. Greetings: Asking what is being eaten
35. Greetings: Enquiring whether the food is tasty
36. Greetings: What are you doing?
37. Greetings: What have you been doing?
38. Greetings: ‘fa-lang, fa-lang’ / ‘bak see-dah’
39. Greetings: Other
40. Greetings: Babies and young infants
41. Greetings: Telephone
42. Goodbye: ‘Sa-wad-dee kap’
43. Goodbye: ‘lah gorn’ and ‘bpy gorn der’
44. Goodbye: What you intend to do
45. Goodbye: Back home is better
46. Goodbye: Good luck
47. Goodbye: I’ll see you later
48. Goodbye: Babies
49. Goodbye: Telephone
50. 49: A typical greeting conversation
51. Summary
52. Vocabulary list
53. Develop and check your learning

 MEETING PEOPLE

1. Meeting people
2. Tone practice
3. Thai: The compound word language
4. Question words
5. Question words: Question marker
6. Question words: What?
7. Question words: Where?
8. Question words: When?
9. Question words: Why?
10. Question words: Which?
11. Question words: Who?
12. Question words: How?
13. Question words: How much? / How many?
14. Question words: How long?
15. Isaan Thai tenses
16. 16.Isaan Thai tenses: On-going present activity
17. 17.Isaan Thai tenses: Completed activity
18. 18.Isaan Thai tenses: Future activity
19. Initial greetings and conversation: Common questions asked
20. What is your name?
21. What is your name?: Nicknames
22. What is your name?: Examples of ‘seu len’ names
23. Where do you come from?
24. What nationality are you?
25. What nationality are you?: Grammar use - ‘bpen’, ‘maen’
26. What country do you come from?: Country names A - Z
27. What place/ town do you come from?
28. How old are you?
29. How old are you?: Isaan Thai numbers 0 - 10
30. How old are you?: Isaan Thai numbers 11 - 19
31. How old are you?: Isaan Thai numbers 20 - 29
32. How old are you?: Isaan Thai numbers 30 - 100
33. How old are you?: Reactions
34. What is your occupation?
35. What is your occupation?: Pre-fixes
36. What is your occupation?: Occupations A - Z
37. Are you a tourist?
38. Do you like Thailand?
39. Summary: Common questions asked
40. Showing interest words and phrases
41. 51. Summary
42. 52. Vocabulary list
43. 53. Develop and check your learning

 EATING

1. Eating
2. Tone practice
3. Request words: ‘kor’
4. Request words: ‘ow’
5. Request words: ‘suay‘
6. Request words: ‘dy bor?’
7. Request words: ‘sern’
8. Request words: ‘kor-toht kap’ / ‘Kor-toht ka’
9. Polite particles: ‘nae’
10. Polite particles: ‘der’
11. Food: Eating
12. Food: Meal staples
13. Food: Wildlife
14. Food: Method of food preparation
15. Food: Cooking methods
16. Food: Live food
17. Food: Sitting down to eat
18. Food: Announcing meal times
19. Food: Dips and sauces
20. Food: Eating rice
21. Food: Eating utensils
22. Food: Raw food
23. Food: Drinking water
24. Food questions
25. Food questions: Have you eaten yet?
26. Food questions: Are you hungry?
27. Food questions: Do you like Thai food?
28. Food questions: Can you eat Thai / Isaan food?
29. Food questions: Do you eat spicy food?
30. Food questions: Is the food spicy?
31. Food questions: Is the food tasty?
32. Food questions: Do you want more?
33. Food questions: Do you want more rice?
34. Food questions: Are you full?
35. Food questions: Summary
36. Describing food: Characteristics
37. Describing food: Strength of characteristic
38. Describing food: Softening negative responses
39. Thank you: Saying and acknowledging
40. Summary
41. Vocabulary list
42. Develop and check your learning

DRINKING

1. Drinking
2. Tone practice
3. To want words: ‘yahk’ / ‘yahk si’
4. To want words: ‘ow’
5. To want words: ‘dtorng gahn’
6. To like: ‘mak’
7. To bring and to take: ‘ow… mah’
8. To bring and to take: ‘ow…bpy’
9. Words meaning ‘for’: ‘hy’
10. Words meaning ‘for’: ‘sam-lap’
11. Drinking alcohol
12. Whisky
13. Whisky: White alcohol
14. Whisky: Drink etiquette for ‘see sip’
15. Whisky: Asking for water
16. Whisky: Coloured whisky
17. Whisky: Drink etiquette for coloured whisky
18. Whisky: Whisky talk
19. Indicating 'with': ‘sy’
20. Indicating 'with': ‘gap’
21. Indicating 'with': ‘nam gan’
22. Beer
23. Beer: What beer do you want to drink?’ question forms
24. Beer: Adding ice
25. Beer: Drinking etiquette
26. Beer: Refills
27. Beer: Toasts
28. Buying drinks
29. Beer package formats
30. Requesting drinks from store: classifiers
31. Opening bottles #1
32. Opening bottles #2
33. Isaan ‘muan’
34. Loud behavior
35. Feeling drunk
36. Hangovers
37. The male - female divide and parties
38. Smoking: Words
39. Smoking: Phrases
40. Smoking: Asking for a light / lighter
41. Vocabulary list
42. Develop and check your learning

 TALKING ABOUT THE LANGUAGE, FAMILY AND PEOPLE

1. Talking about language
2. Tone practice
3. Question tags: ‘laeo bpy?’
4. Question tags: ‘laeo bor?’
5. Question tags: ‘dti?’
6. Question tags: ‘maen bor?’
7. Question tags: ‘no()?’
8. Talking about the language: Can you speak Isaan Thai?
9. Talking about the language: Is speaking Isaan Thai difficult?
10. Talking about the language: How did you learn to speak Isaan Thai?
11. Talking about the language: How long have you been studying Isaan Thai?
12. Talking about the language: Can you read and write Thai?
13. Talking about the language: Reactions to your Isaan Thai speaking ability
14. Talking about the language: Responding to reactions to your Isaan Thai
15. Requests to aid comprehension: Do you understand
16. Requests to aid comprehension: Do you understand?
17. Requests to aid comprehension: Asking what something is called in Isaan Thai
18. Requests to aid comprehension: Asking what a word means
19. Requests to aid comprehension: Asking how you say a word
20. Requests to aid comprehension: Asking how to spell a word
21. Useful vocabulary relating to learning / studying
22. Interjections
23. Family kinship terms
24. Tone practice
25. Family kinship terms #1
26. Family kinship terms #2
27. Family kinship terms #3:
28. Family kinship terms #4
29. Family kinship words: Introductions
30. Family kinship words: Asking about people
31. Family kinship words: Checking nature of the relationship
32. Questions about your family
33. Questions about your family: Marital status
34. Questions about your family: Children
35. Questions about your family: Brothers and sisters
36. Questions about your family: How many brothers and sisters?
37. Questions about your family: Position in family hierarchy
38. Questions about your family: Age of family members
39. Showing affection
40. People characteristics
41. Grammar #1: Pre-fixes
42. Grammar #2: Use of ‘nah’
43. Grammar #3: Use of ‘gahn’
44. Grammar #4: Use of ‘kuam’
45. Grammar #5: Use of ‘kee’
46. Vocabulary building: Opposite words A - Z
47. Vocabulary list
48. Develop and check your learning

THE END IS JUST THE BEGINNING

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TRANSLITERATION GUIDE

1. Phonetic transliteration: Low class consonants
2. Phonetic transliteration: Mid class consonants
3. Phonetic transliteration: High class consonants
4. Phonetic transliteration: Short vowels
5. Phonetic transliteration: Long vowels

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