A Comparative Analysis of Chinese "hao" and Thai "dee" —Take " HanYu JiaoCheng" Series of Textbooks as an Example

Abstract

The Chinese word "hao" and the Thai word "dee" have both correspondences and differences in terms of lexical properties, and Thai students or teachers who know Thai usually ignore the differences at the initial stage of teaching. This paper adopts the literature method, statistical method and qualitative research method, combined with the series of textbooks " HanYu JiaoCheng", which is mainly used by universities in Thailand, to compare the Chinese word "hao" and the Thai word "dee" in terms of their meanings, part-of-speech usage and grammatical function, and found that that the meaning items of "hao" and "dee" are very different from each other in terms of number and meaning, except for the meaning of "good", "healthy", "cured", etc.; although they can be used as adjectives and adverbs, they are also different in terms of part-of-speech usage and grammatical functions. Based on their characteristics, the author finally puts forward corresponding teaching suggestions and methods to help Thai students solve some of the problems they encounter in learning the word "good" and enable them to use it correctly in daily life.