EXAMPLES OF DIFFERENCES Thai is a phonetic language, English is not phonetic: The therefore, each letter has its own vowel in the word cat is sound that doesn’t change represented as /æ/ while the same depending on the use of the vowel is represented as /ɑ/ in the letter. word art. A complete sentence in Thai In English a complete sentence could be: ‘she beautiful’ – “They contains at least a verb and a do not require a verb” (McKenzie- noun: ‘She drives.’ Brown, 2006, p. 1) Singular v. Plural: Tree (s) v. No singular v. plural – “An ‘s’ Trees (p) sound at the end of a word is not pronounced in Thai which means that plural nouns are frequently pronounced as singular” (Anyan, 2006, p. 1).