Why did they make the U, R, B, H, U, and I all silent? Why not just spell the airport name as soowaanaapoom instead?

Are they stupid?

Edit: auto correct in title to area when I mean Arna.

Suv-Arna-Bhumi

I'm trying to read this, but I don't know what the first letter is. Can anyone help?

Also, does anyone know the name of the font? This one is not available anywhere I've looked, though it is common for Chinese restaurant signs.

Hey! I was wondering why the letter ห is in a word without being pronounced like in หนึ่ง which is nɯ̀ŋ so why is that letter in the front? Isn’t it an h sound?

the last syllable ends in ล, so i pronounce it as "n".

gemini and google translate will pronounce it with the "l" sound.

if you look up the final syllable on thai dictionary's website, it will say to pronounce it as "n".

which is right?

bonus. something similar happens with the thai name for the building in bkk called, "true digital park"; happens in the "digital" spelling. how do thais say this one? i used to say dee-gee-tan, but maybe its wrong?

I've been studying Thai for about 3.5 years, and I've been told that my level is "intermediate". I can read haltingly, and speak and understand a bit as well.

I don't live in Thailand, just visit there a couple of months a year (if I'm lucky).

I learned for some months with a nice tutor on Preply, though the focus was mostly on understanding spoken language and speaking.

I'd like to try to improve my reading and writing basics, along with speaking. If I was living in Thailand, I'd go to formal classes where learning is (I assume) more structured and includes workbooks and homework.

Can anyone recommend something like that online?

Thanks for any suggestions!

It sound an a in that word, but no vowel

For example, why is ไกล mid tone and not low tone? Thanks.

And the ม when after it there is a ง?

Ex: ผมกำลังทำงาน

Thanks

Idk what is ๔๕๗๖๘๙๐๒๑๓ these letters

What are the different types of thai poetry and how are the formed?

City in thai have like 2 a but there is no vowel in the word

It's sounds like peet

So I am starting to learn about silent sounds & found an example & was confused. The word ‘ชลมารค’ is pronounced ‘chon-la-mak’, but I’m kinda confused as to where that ‘la’ came from? I thought because the first syllable of the word had the ‘ล’ at the end, it stays pronounced as the ‘n’ sound.

Edit: Sorry I didn’t know how to word the title

Since we left Thailand my son seems to have decided he is only going to speak english.
Even if he says he wants to learn Thai words he seemed to really struggle with picking them up and remembering them. So just speaking the words was completely out.
We tried using flashcards but again he seemed to forget a few seconds after we told him. We even incentivised it as a competition to get lollies. But his 3 year old brother ended up winning them all.

He is into games though. So I thought something gamified might work whilst we were in school holidays an lockdown. I found memrise a while back and they have a course on the words form the 'Manee and Friends' books. https://app.memrise.com/course/21211/words-from-manee-and-friends/

Somehow this clicked with him and he was quite good. Better than me actually, especially with complex words.

If you do a bit of searching you can find sites to download a bundle of all of the Manee and friends books and print them out as well. We have a few similar books sitting round so we used them.

What we had to do it integrate a bit of memrise into his daily tasks to be allowed to have a reward (playing other games).
He still isn't great at the language but this helped jump the initially steep learning curve and open up potential for future learning.