Lao is becoming an increasingly important community language in Australia. You'll study subjects in your area of interest, taught in Thai, and participate fully in Thai university life with your Thai classmates. After your Year in Thailand, you'll return to ANU for the final semester of year four, taking a Year in Thailand Project along with other advanced units. Information regardning each of these degrees in the Southeast Asian section of the University Handbook. Combined degrees, while requiring extra study, open up a number of career opportunities.
Honours degrees are available in conjunction with the programs mentioned above.
The major sequence is a practical course designed to enable you to communicate effectively and confidently in spoken Thai and to comprehend modern texts such as newspapers. Classroom activities include extensive conversation practice. Video and computer-assisted learning modules are utilised in language study. Anyone who tries can learn Thai. The language is written in an alphabetic system learned in the first year along with basic construction patterns.