The Middle Class Story

Learn the 7 middle class Thai consonants through an unforgettable story about a child and his pets. This memory technique has helped thousands of students master these essential letters.

The Middle Class Story - Child with pets in basin
There is a middle class CHILD (เด็ก) who likes to keep pets.
He has a FISH (ปลา), a TURTLE (เต่า) and a CHICKEN (ไก่).
Where does he keep these pets? In his BASIN (อ่าง) of course. (Actually try to imagine a big bucket or a barrel with a chicken, a turtle and a fish swimming around inside it always bumping into each other)
The boy has to feed the pets. They eat LEAVES (ใบไม้). Again, imagine the chicken, fish and turtle swimming around in the basin thing and the kid with the ghost sheet is standing over the basin dropping in leaves for the 3 animals to eat.
Also, he needs to make sure they don't get out so he keeps a big PLATE (จาน) on top of the BASIN (อ่าง).
Important: The story serves as a series of hooks to help us remember this group of letters. You need to learn them as a group and not doing so will make further steps problematic. Just trust me.

The 7 Middle Class Consonants

🔊
ด
CHILD
เด็ก
🔊
ป
FISH
ปลา
🔊
ต
TURTLE
เต่า
🔊
ก
CHICKEN
ไก่
🔊
บ
LEAF
ใบไม้
🔊
จ
PLATE
จาน
🔊
อ
BASIN
อ่าง

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📚 How to Practice

Now spend a few minutes drilling these characters. Look at each Thai letter and try to remember which of the 7 keywords it represents. If you can't remember just by looking, then run through the story to help you.

Great practice methods:

• Tell the story to someone else out loud

• Try writing out all 7 letters from memory using the story to guide you

• Cover the keywords and test yourself on the Thai characters above

Note: The audio you hear in the full course is the sound of the consonant plus an unwritten vowel that sounds like "aaw." We'll talk about this more in the complete course.

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