Welcome to Your Nerdy Thai Tutor page. My name is Charinee, a former software engineer, now a full-time educator. I was born and raised in Bangkok, Thailand, but been living in the USA since 2014. I do go back to Thailand every year, so might I say I am up to date with the new kids' lingos (somewhat). I'm fluent in both English and Thai. I'm mostly just making these practices as a passion project so my husband can practice Thai in a way that I think is most effective for him.
I still have a full-time job as a STEM tutor and making these online lessons in my down time, so each lesson might take some time to come out and sometimes are buggy. I apologize if they are buggy. I do be pushing untested codes (probably should not do this but oh well, it's free guys), I'm just making these after hours of doing a lot of math and sometimes giving bonus therapy sessions. If anyone has any request for a feature in the lessons, has any suggestions, report a bug, just want to rant about your day, or interested in booking a private lesson, feel free to email me at yournerdythaitutor@gmail.com or click the Book a Lesson button above. If your email looks like spam I will block you immediately so please try to look as human as possible.
If you would like to help me get actual nice equipments for better sound quality, you're welcome to go to my Amazon Wishlist: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/33VRNZ0TLFM8Y?ref_=wl_share.
Honestly, Thai is a very hard language, from the pronunciation, reading and writing system, to the grammar. I would highly suggest learning the alphabet, learn how to read first. It helps with your pronunciation so much, because the romanification of the Thai language is horrendous. It does look overwhelming with 44 consonants, 21 vowels and 5 tones. However, a lot of the consonants make the same sounds, and for a lot of them, their whole purpose is to be fancy for no reason. Therefore, you can condense the alphabet down to just the most frequently used ones to start and you can already read most simple Thai words by knowing only 10 out of 44 consonants. If you are not familar with intonations, then this is going to be a more difficult journey. It is definitely not impossible. In English, people do make use of tones, just not to communicate a different word, but to portray different emotions. In Thai, we just use tones as a sound for different words.