Thai 3
UndergraduateANU-THAI20022026
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Engage with Thai language at an intermediate level and get ready to interact with native speakers. Through texts and tv, explore ideas of family, spirituality, and leadership. Add challenging words to your vocabulary and read longer pieces.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 15 Feb 2026
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $1,700
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Thai 3
About this subject
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- Use an active Thai vocabulary of around 1000 items.
- Recognise and use markers to indicate linking of ideas and arguments in Thai langauge.
- Read, comprehend, and produce simple, longer Thai written passages with a wider range of structural forms on non-technical topics with the aid of substantial vocabulary lists and a dictionary.
- Use Thai language in conversational situations on familiar and concrete topics including a limited range of historical, cultural, and contemporary social issues.
- Demonstrate a cultural understanding of prevalent Thai perceptions and practices appropriate to the language level.
- Thai
Thai 3 is an Advanced Beginner-Low Intermediate level subject. The subject covers a wider range of structural forms; as well as the use of markers to indicate the linking of ideas and arguments in Thai. This subject also covers a limited range of historical, cultural, and contemporary social topics in Thai. Students use their growing socio-linguistic skills to read and listen to both modified and short unmodified texts and audio-visual media on relevant themes and situations. Students develop grammatical understanding through spoken, written, and translation exercises in Thai. By the end of the subject, students at this level are able to converse on a range of familiar and concrete topics with native speakers who are willing to speak clearly and simply without colloquialism. Students can discuss and write about selected social and cultural issues in Thai, and gain some cultural understanding of prevalent Thai perceptions and practices appropriate to the level of the subject.
This subject is ran via face-to-face video at a set time prescribed by the University. Please be aware of potential time zone differences.
Please note: The Assessments listed on the OUA website are indicative only. The confirmed assessments for each specific class offering will be available in the class summary, which is released two weeks prior to the start of the class.
- Participation (10%)
- Periodic quizzes (10%)
- Periodic homework (30%)
- Mid-semester Assessment (20%)
- Final Assessment (30%)
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Entry requirements
Prior study
To help set you up for success before you start this subject, we suggest completing or having equivalent knowledge in:
Others
If you have studied or have previous experience with the language and are not sure which course level is right for you, please take a language proficiency assessment, or reach out to our friendly student services team at ANU: cap.student@anu.edu.au.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - To successfully engage in this subject, students will need a laptop or computer with a camera (inbuilt or webcam), a headset with a microphone, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome, reliable internet access, and access to a scanner or smartphone.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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