Jingjok
How Thais get their news
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Morning TV news in Thailand is often เล่าข่าว 'news-telling': presenters read the newspaper aloud and comment, sometimes with real emotion. Big papers such as ไทยรัฐ, ข่าวสด, มติชน and เดลินิวส์ now live mainly online and on Facebook, YouTube and LINE TODAY. Headlines have their own grammar: short verbs (เผย, ชี้, จ่อ), dropped words and abbreviations such as นายกฯ and กทม. Forwarded LINE messages from relatives are a major source of rumour, so ask ข่าวนี้จริงหรือเปล่า before you believe or share. For practice, skim three headlines a day: they're short, repetitive and teach you the news vocabulary fast.
Try this today
Open a Thai news site or LINE TODAY and read three headlines aloud.
The words that carry it
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Your first 90 days of Thai
Culture cards in Jingjok are tied to the words that carry them, each ending in one thing to try today.
- WEEKS 1–2 · SURVIVEGreet anyone, pay, and order food and 7-Eleven exactly how you like it.
- WEEKS 3–6 · SETTLE INGet around by taxi, Grab and skytrain, find anything, and handle your landlord.
- WEEKS 7–12 · RUN YOUR LIFEPharmacy, bank, SIM and apps, how you feel, and a weekend away, all in Thai.
The first week is free.