For most expats, getting to grips with the Thai language can be tricky. One of the main problems is that there are very few similarities between English and Thai and even the way that sentences are formed in Thai can be very different to the way they are structured in English.
Although there are numerous books that teach Thai on the market, learning Thai from a book can be both difficult and confusing, especially because they are often written by people who have a loose grip on the English language and contain formal Thai rather than conversational Thai or slang. Here are a few suggestions for other ways you can learn basic Thai.