Thai Language for beginners

AUA Language Center, Udonthani will start a new Thai Language Course next week for beginners. (starting Tuesday 22nd September 2009).

Dates: Tuesday 22nd September - Friday 30th October (6 weeks, Tuesday to Friday, 4 days per week)

Details:
Beginners Thai - Tuesday to Friday 3.00pm to 4.30pm (36hrs)

Advanced Thai - TBD (must be able to read Thai - please contact me if you are interested)

3000 baht per person.

Please call our office on 042 242 255 or 042 325 776, or email at udon@auathailand.org

Nick Dunning, AUA Udonthani

hi,im interested if there gone be any more course for beginners in december?

I live in Non Sa At about 30 minutes from Udon. I amj interested in the course but, I work 3 weeks in the US and am home for 3 weeks. Is there any other options?

Good news. We will have two courses running this term:

Beginners: Tues-Fri, 3.00pm - 4.30pm. we have 5 people signed up for this course. Starting 22.Sept

Advanced: Tues-Fri, 1.30pm - 3.00pm. We have 3 people.

Please let me know if you would like to join a class.

Thanks

Nick

Hi nick, do you have any lessons starting in november?

nick , myself and a friend came to your last course well we went on the first afternoon , the thai lady teacher was wonderful to look at . BUT she did,nt seem to have much idea how to give the lesson
or what to do next , she kept asking us what we wanted to do. and did we want to learn the thai alphbet
which we did,nt we only wanted to learn basic thai speach .
we did,nt go back after the first class .

martynsnowman wrote:nick , myself and a friend came to your last course well we went on the first afternoon , the thai lady teacher was wonderful to look at . BUT she did,nt seem to have much idea how to give the lesson
or what to do next , she kept asking us what we wanted to do. and did we want to learn the thai alphbet
which we did,nt we only wanted to learn basic thai speach .
we did,nt go back after the first class .

hey marty
i had the same problem like that here in melbourne.

So Nick something to say?

I'm looking too, to have some beginner Thai lesson in Udon Thani for the next year(January-February).
To be cheap it's nice but the teacher should be qualified.
Ready to spend 5k or up to 10k for one month.

warmeduque wrote:So Nick something to say?

I'm looking too, to have some beginner Thai lesson in Udon Thani for the next year(January-February).
To be cheap it's nice but the teacher should be qualified.
Ready to spend 5k or up to 10k for one month.

join_thai_course@hotmail.com, Teacher Joy
Walk past Mojos / Steves bar going away from the complex, just before the petrol station, small coffee corner and school.

martynsnowman wrote:nick , myself and a friend came to your last course well we went on the first afternoon , the thai lady teacher was wonderful to look at . BUT she did,nt seem to have much idea how to give the lesson
or what to do next , she kept asking us what we wanted to do. and did we want to learn the thai alphbet
which we did,nt we only wanted to learn basic thai speach .
we did,nt go back after the first class .

One of things is, it is very hard to find the right level to teach at in these classes, Your right she is pretty, Should have stuck it out. It's a very long process and not easy, the harder you work the n more you get from the class. My memory is terrible so I had to go beyond just speech. But others seem to grasp it instantly.

In the three years I have been trying I have yet to see a course plan available to teachers, here in Udon. You might find something like that in Bangkok I don't know. They pretty much have to punt, You can go to University and learn to teach english. But a program to teach farangs Thai I don't think so.

Hey what the heck else you go to do that time of day. If you give it a try you will pick up something you didn't know before

In the end it's worth the work makes life much more enjoyable.

Me it's ride time when seaon is over I will start agian. But I;m working on readin adn writing these days. Boy wish I could remember all those words Jam Mai Dai

Anxiously awaiting the opening of an AUA course in Nong Khai.

I studied eight months in Udon... '06-'07. Being a romantic, insatiable intellectual, I'd enroll in an instant.

Perhaps AUA might consider an Isaan course for those who live here and actually wish to converse with the locals. (yes, the locals speak about 50% Thai.) I'm not suggesting you legitimize a bastardized language, but would you teach a semi-useless language like British English in a civilized country like America? Just wondering.

I have been married to my wife for just under a year and spent endless hours in front of my pc and talking to her on the phone .Im at the stage now where I can hold a conversation a good web site is http://www.learningthai.com/speak_thai.html .

CHOK DEE

hi nick
does aua have the one year thai course that will qualify for the student visa??

hi bumper, after the first class me and my mate went to bar and talked about the class and we realy could,nt see it improving ( maybe the lady teacher was just having an off day ).
but i did carry on with the language learning,
i bought 1 of the Isaan thai for beginners course,s from a local bar, you get a well made up and easy to understand book and a 3 hour dvd that follows each page of the book . so when theres somthing i dont understand its no prob to rewind and do that part again .
they course must be for sale in many diffrent bars and it cost me 1000bt for part 1 of 2 parts .

Ya I have something similar myself and still use it for review got it at AUA.

Have fun with the language I do great for when I'm not riding.