SHIELD LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT contact: 01755092760 website: www.dhakalanguage.com email: [email protected] THAI LANGUAGE FOR ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS. COURSE DURATION: 3 MONTHS. COURSE HOURS: 42 HOURS. -----BASIC COURSE OUTLINE----- Topics & Vocabulary: • Exchange common greetings • Yes/no question: ไหม ใช่ไหม เหรอ หรือยัง • How to state your name, nationality and place of origin • Polite forms • Use basic sentence patterns • Expressions – (please , thank you , sorry and goodbye) • Asking price and negotiating; Carrying out shopping transactions • Location expressions • How to ask people about their job • How to express possession • Ask where something or someone is • Simple descriptions (Key adjectives/adverbs, colours) • How to ask someone to repeat something • How to buy food and ask what something is called • Taxi transactions Grammar I: • Yes/no question with ไหม ใช่ไหม เหรอ ไหม? • Polite particles (ค่ะ ครับ) • Affirmative sentences • Negative sentences ‘ไม่’ • Question ‘ใคร’, ‘อะไร’, ‘ ที่ไหน • can = verb+ ได้ • too+adj Grammar II: • Future tense • Present tense • Comparison • Prepositions • More verbs • Using ‘ แล้ว’ already • Uncountable nouns • Periods of time • Joining verb • Classifiers • Polite requests ขอ • Would like to อยาก (จะ) • if sentences • verb bpen + adverb Cultural Content: • Names in Thailand • Shopping, markets • Thai food and cuisine • Thai writing • Being polite in Thailand • Numbers and counting |