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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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I've got some travel coming up later in the year, so I've been trying to get my head around the Thai alphabet. It's weird trying to learn some things about a language, without having a long term goal to really know it.
But on the flipside of that, still trying to maintain Japanese. Doing a different podcast approach, re-listening to episodes and reading/mining the transcripts. It's been kinda helpful.
Learning an abugida writing system like Thai sure is a big task when not having a plan to maintain it long term, but it's def rewarding. Hope ya enjoy!
It's definitely a bigger undertaking than I initially thought! At first, having done mostly Japanese recently, I just saw that Thai had something like an alphabet and was relieved. But I'd really underestimated how confusing it'd be to have very different phonetics and resultingly confusing symbols.
Still, I feel like if I'm going to a place, I should know at least a little of the language. And trying to learn the basics doesn't feel very effective if I don't know any of the building blocks.