Friday, March 13, 2009

It's all Greek to me...

อาจารย์ Apparently that means teacher in Thai.

About the Thai language:
-Phonemic
-Noninflected
-Monosyllabic
-5 tones (mid, high, low, rising or falling... this makes the language sound sing-songy)
-Written Thai language was introduced by King Ramkhamhaeng in 1283
-4 major dialects
-Phonemic alphabet
-44 consonants
-15 vowels
-Words are not modified or conjugated for tenses, plurals, genders, or subject-verb agreement (a hard thing for a Spanish language teacher to grasp...)
-Articles such as a, an, and the are not used

I think it will be quite difficult to learn, but we're willing to try...

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