Thai 89 Katie 5
The Thai language has officially kicked my butt! Now I am hoping to cut my loss and drop it like its hot. The only thing is that I have fulfill my foreign language requirement in order to graduate. What's a girl to do? Take Indonesian. Why? In this class we actually learn to read and write the language, plus it has a romanized writing system. Did Thai have this? No. Plus Thai does not have a standardized phonetic alphabet, say like Chinese has pinyin. For example, take the word for name: chue. Only in my class it could be spelled chuu or chyy- and hence my confusion begins. I study my flash cards but if the teacher spells things different from the way I memorized it, I go blank or have no idea what the word is and then come in the bad grades. Yeah, it will be hard to get to the level I need to be by next year, but I could say the same thing of Thai if stay with it.
posted by imagine @ 12:06 PM
2 Comments:
ick...that SUCKS. sorry to hear of your dilemma.
Yeah, that sounds worse than the Russian, and that mother kicked my ass for 3 years. You couldn't pay me to study an East Asian language.
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