This course aims to equip students with basic Thai conversations. It focuses on daily life topics such as telling times, days, months, years and seasons. Other topics also include students’ daily activities such as buying food and clothes, selling items and asking for directions. In addition, the lessons include reading and writing according to the Thai phonological system. Students will read and write Thai consonants, vowels and tones and they will study word formation, vocabulary and sentence construction. Additionally, the lessons include storytelling, summarizing main ideas through reading and listening assignments, giving opinions and conducting academic presentations.