Thai Tenses & Talking About Time

Book excerpt: Using different tenses of words allows us to talk about when an action happened, when it began, how long it lasted, when it finished, whether it is still continuing, if it is planned, and so on. With no grammatical tenses available, it can be a real headache knowing how to express time concepts in Thai. For both beginner and intermediate students of Thai, this book aims to dispel the idea that Thai has no tenses, and show you how a similar effect to talk about time can easily be achieved. Using tense words, time words, adverbs, quantifiers, prepositions, and a little bit of time travel, you'll soon be able to say exactly when. Includes FREE online audio for all the examples in the book. Suitable for both self-study and guided study. past, present and future tenses simple explanations throughout lots of example sentences both phonetic and Thai script