Learning Thai alphabet. Tone marks (อ่, อ้, อ๊, อ๋)
In this video we'll get acquainted with the Thai tone marks (there are 4 of them) and we'll start learning the rules of using them.
You can download the table with the rules here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CMck....
The materials are taken from the website www.thaipod101.com.
Time codes:
00:00 - Greeting
01:45 - Phrase of the day - เจอกัน ("see you")
02:34 - เจอกัน vs. bye
03:48 - My "insight": how to pronounce the names of the letters correctly
07:10 - Practice: let's revise the words that we've learnt
10:38 - Tone mark rules
12:04 - Tone mark อ่ (mái-èek)
12:50 - Tone mark rule with อ่: middle class + อ่ = low tone
15:06 - Tone mark อ้ (mái-thoo)
15:41 - Tone mark rule with อ้: middle class + อ้ = falling tone
18:14 - Tone mark อ๊ (mái-dtrii)
19:11 - Tone mark rule with อ๊: middle class + อ๊ = high tone
21:00 - Tone mark อ๋ (mái-jàt-dtà-waa)
21:46 - Tone mark rule with อ๋: middle class + อ๋ = rising tone
22:53 - Revision
24:51 - A little bit about my approach to learning the Thai alphabet
25:29 - Conclusion and practice