I’ve got some travel coming up later in the year, so I’ve been trying to get my head around the Thai alphabet. It’s weird trying to learn some things about a language, without having a long term goal to really know it.
But on the flipside of that, still trying to maintain Japanese. Doing a different podcast approach, re-listening to episodes and reading/mining the transcripts. It’s been kinda helpful.
Learning an abugida writing system like Thai sure is a big task when not having a plan to maintain it long term, but it’s def rewarding. Hope ya enjoy!
It’s definitely a bigger undertaking than I initially thought! At first, having done mostly Japanese recently, I just saw that Thai had something like an alphabet and was relieved. But I’d really underestimated how confusing it’d be to have very different phonetics and resultingly confusing symbols.
Still, I feel like if I’m going to a place, I should know at least a little of the language. And trying to learn the basics doesn’t feel very effective if I don’t know any of the building blocks.
I’ve got some travel coming up later in the year, so I’ve been trying to get my head around the Thai alphabet. It’s weird trying to learn some things about a language, without having a long term goal to really know it.
But on the flipside of that, still trying to maintain Japanese. Doing a different podcast approach, re-listening to episodes and reading/mining the transcripts. It’s been kinda helpful.
Learning an abugida writing system like Thai sure is a big task when not having a plan to maintain it long term, but it’s def rewarding. Hope ya enjoy!
It’s definitely a bigger undertaking than I initially thought! At first, having done mostly Japanese recently, I just saw that Thai had something like an alphabet and was relieved. But I’d really underestimated how confusing it’d be to have very different phonetics and resultingly confusing symbols.
Still, I feel like if I’m going to a place, I should know at least a little of the language. And trying to learn the basics doesn’t feel very effective if I don’t know any of the building blocks.