Thai reference

The rules worth looking up rather than memorising. These pages are meant to be returned to, not read once.

• Thai classifiers: counting things correctlyCount and point at things the way Thai grammar requires, instead of translating English number-plus-noun.
• Thai consonant classesKnow which of the three classes a consonant belongs to, why the three classes exist at all, and how class combines with the rest of the syllable to decide its tone.
• Thai numbers and pricesRead both sets of digits used in Thailand, count from one to a million, understand why eleven and twenty break the pattern, and follow a price or a phone number said at full speed.
• Thai tone marksRecognise the four tone marks, know what each one produces on each of the three consonant classes, find the mark when it is stacked on top of a vowel, and work a marked syllable out end to end instead of guessing at the mark.
• Thai vowels, short and longRecognise all 32 Thai vowel forms, know the length of each, and read the shortened shapes they turn into when a final consonant follows.
• The Thai alphabet: all 44 consonantsLook up any Thai consonant, its acrophonic name, its class (the part that decides tone), and the sound it makes at the end of a syllable, which is rarely the sound it makes at the start.
• The Thai tone rules, in one tableWork out the tone of any Thai syllable from the page, and understand why a tone mark does not name a tone.

These make most sense alongside the Read Thai track.