Real Thai on the street
The everyday register people actually speak — not the textbook version you'll never hear on a street corner.
Bangkok · since 2015
Khruu Shine's Classroom
Getting bored of learning formal Thai from a textbook, only to find out people don't really say it like that? Here we give you the version we really use in everyday life.
What to expect
From our class
Thai through music
We look closely at the vocabulary and patterns in your favourite songs, and learn how to use them correctly.
Creative speaking & writing
Connecting words that let you expand a sentence, tell a story, and express a complex thought. You might write a masterpiece — who knows?!
Foundational reading & writing
Consonant classes, vowels, tone marks and the exceptions — enough to read the posts and fill in the forms.
A little bit about
The main teacher
Bhavanta Rajabhandarak Punnopatham
Teaching Thai as a foreign language since 2015.
Has worked with students from…
Five Fun Facts
- I like to push my students to talk a lot in class.
- I love board games and card games, so I sometimes adapt those into practice activities.
- The class activity I'm most proud of is the Thai Scaventure Hunt — designed to teach giving directions by actually going and finding things.
- A lot of visual learners tell me they love my teaching style.
- But a lot of students say Khruu Shine is STRICT!!!
2026 class ticket
Price
One-on-one private class, taught at a café or your office.
1 hour
A single private lesson.
1.5 hours
The most popular length.
10% off for 8 tickets
Tickets are valid for 1 month
2 hours
Best value per hour.
20% off for 8 tickets
Tickets are valid for 1 month
Tuesday group class
Two hours every Tuesday at Ari, 18:00–20:00. Drop in for 1,000 THB.
See the topic schedule
Every week, all year
Where we meet
Café, or your office
Classes run at a café near you or at your workplace. For GPS people — I know you can't make it without…
Nonthaburi
Monday · Thursday · Friday
Ari
Tuesday
Phromphong
Wednesday · Sunday
