In Thai language, another thing that plays an important role in reading and writing is ‘final letters’ because they decide the sounds of the syllables and words. When I teach Thai language students who are expatriates living in Bangkok at my Thai Language School I normally focus on the final sounds/final letters because my expat students find it difficult to pronounce the final sounds in Thai language.
Final letters mainly have 8 sounds which are basically categorized into 2 groups
· Stop final letters are -ก, -บ, -ด
· Sonorant final letters are -ง, -น, -ม, -ย, -ว
The stop final lettersmake dead syllables/words whereas the sonorant final letters make live syllables/words
Now you have learnt Step 3 of Thai grammar in term of reading and writing Thai words. When you combine all the steps together…1-2-3 then you are getting very close to a perfect reading and writing Thai language. You will just need one more thing to go …… Tone Markers!
Kru Mulan J
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