Mae Ai English Express

28/08/2016

Last day here at Mae Ai English Express :( Thanks to all the students who have come to study with us over the past few years. We worked out we have taught nearly 300 people conversational English! We hope that you will all remember this experience and have amazing futures! Natty and I will miss you all!!!

28/02/2016

End of term photo with the big ones! See you again in May!

28/02/2016

Last day of term here at Mae Ai English Express! Hope you all have a fun summer break!!!

16/10/2015

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28/09/2015

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28/09/2015

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19/07/2015

Is this the same for everybody?

03/06/2015

Haha grammar joke!

18/05/2015

The kid's elephants! They introduced their names and ages and what they like to eat.....all in English!

14/03/2015

Today we learnt family vocabulary and made people paper chains!

05/01/2015

Many English consonant sounds are hard for monolingual Thai speakers. These are those that do not exist in Thai. Most of these sounds are voiced (e.g. the z sound which is the voiced version of the s sound). To reduce the "Thai accent", or what is known in Thai as samniang thai, when speaking English, these Thai speakers have to learn how to pronounce these English consonant sounds.

Voiceless sounds (no buzzing sound in the throat)
/θ/ as in thing. Many Thais will either substitute ต /t/ or ซ /s/ for this sound.
/ʃ / as in fashion (/ˈfæʃən/). Many Thais will substitute ช /tɕʰ/ (sounds close to the ch in chin) for this sound.
Voiced sounds (buzzing sound in the throat)
/ɡ/ as in God. Many Thais will confuse this sound with ก /k/ (unaspirated) as in skit.
/dʒ/ as in Jason (/ˈdʒeɪsən/). Many Thais will substitute จ /tɕ/ for this sound.
/v/ as in very. Many Thais who cannot produce this will use ว /w/ instead.
/z/ as in zone. Many Thais will use the voiceless counterpart ซ /s/ instead.
/ʒ/ as in vision (/ˈvɪʒən/). Many Thais substitute ช /tɕʰ/ for this sound.
/ð/ as in this (/ðɪs/). Many Thais substitute ด /d/ for this sound.
Other sounds:
/ɹ/ as in rabbit. Many Thais will either substitute ร /r/ (trilled r like the Spanish r) or ล /l/ for this sound.
/ɾ/ as in the American English pronunciation of better (/ˈbɛɾɚ/). Many Thais will either substitute /d/, /t/, or /r/ for this sound.
Optional:
/ʍ/ as in what. (Think of Stewie Griffin's cool whip) Many Thais will substitute /w/ for this sound. I do not count this as a difficult sound since many English speakers themselves substitute /w/ for this sound.
Based on this, there are about 10-11 sounds that Thai people have to work on, along with many other areas such as grammar, vocabulary, intonation etc, to reduce the "Thai accent" when speaking English.

Brief summary of each pair (and a triplet) which many Thais do not make a distinction.

voiceless th (thigh) and voiced th (thy)
w (wane) and v (vain)
sh (sheep) vs ch (cheap) vs "zh" (vision)
r (row) vs l (low)
s (sit) vs z (zit)

30/12/2014

So much fun and everyone enjoyed with the activities on Christmas day! Merry Xmas and Happy new year!!