Questions and Small Talk

Start with everyday questions

Begin with the flashcard deck on getting to know someone. It includes questions about names, age, where someone lives and family. Use the cards to notice how personal questions are formed, then return to them and see which ones you can recognize without looking back.

For another set of short questions, open Basic Questions in Hindi. Its cards include questions about people, places and what happened. The deck called Questions also covers practical exchanges, including asking about a job or requesting something.

Move into conversations

Once you have explored individual questions, try a dialogue deck. Farsi - English 2.1 Dialogue Visiting Neighbors includes greetings, an invitation to come in and a question about how someone is. Read through the cards in sequence to see how the exchanges fit together.

The Thai conversation decks offer other situations, including a conversation at a coffee shop and a discussion about travel. A small-talk deck also includes words for language, food and countries. Choose the material that fits the questions or conversation you want to practice.

Check and connect

After working through some cards, try the Thai quiz. It asks about the meaning of a phrase and asks learners to choose phrases for particular expressions. Return to the relevant cards afterward to review language you want to look at again.

This topic is one section of the wider unit. Moving between question cards, dialogue cards and the quiz lets you explore both individual expressions and exchanges within that unit. If a visual overview helps, you could make your own map of the questions and responses you have studied.

Try the quiz after a flashcard deck and see what you want to explore next.