Before we jump keen on
the lessons, I would like you to keep these few equipment in mind:
Learning a overseas
speech is never straightforward. Having lived in California for some years, I'm
still struggling with English every so often. Equal when I declare a bit that
is grammatically fix, every so often ancestors at rest don't understand me
because of my accent! If Thai ancestors look to live bewildered in relation to
what you articulate, don't live depressed. Immediately take a crack at to speak
additional bit by bit and they will get it eventually.
If you appraise to speak
Thai to Thai community and they laugh, desire don't ensue offended. Thais adore
to laugh. They are merely laughing with you, not by the side of you. All the
rage information, we really admire foreigners who appraise to verbalize our
language. Clothed in Thai background, a large amount of the calculate laughing
is a way to confirm admiration, not disrespect.
If you would like to
discover the Thai prose or any prose additional broadly and severely, a
enjoyable way to perform it is learning through absurdity. I tired my formerly
link time in America watching a lot of Seinfeld and Friends. It helped me
improve my relaxed English a lot. This method of learning is much added
enjoyable and operational than learning from a textbook.
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Greetings and
approximately additional undemanding phrases
Hello = Sawaddee
The utterance
"sawaddee" is comparable "Ciao" in Italian. We use it to
declare together hello and goodbye.
How are you? = Sabai dee
mai
I'm thin. = Sabai dee
I'm not air thriving. =
Chan mai sabai
Thank you = Kob kun
("u" in "kun" is pronounced "oo" as in
"foot")
I'm pathetic. = Kaw tode
Never mind./You're
greet. = Mai pen rai
My nickname is.... =
Chan cheu...
What's your name? = Kun
cheu arai
Nice to assemble you. =
Yin dee tee dai rue juk
Yes = Chai
No = Mai chai
If you want to sound
superfluous polite, you can accomplish that by adding up a modifier by the end
of each idiom before sentence. Rider you are a man, articulate "krub"
In addition to if you are a woman, utter "Ka" On behalf of example,
to declare goodbye in a fantastically polite mode, a male amp can declare
"Sawaddee krub" and a female amp can articulate "Sawaddee
ka"
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Numbers
1 = neung
2 = song
3 = sam
4 = see
5 = ha
6 = hok
7 = jed
8 = pad
9 = kao
10 = sip
11 = sip-ed
12 = sip-song
20 = ye-sip
21 = ye-sip-ed
22 = ye sip song
30 = sam-sip
100 = neung-roy
1000 = neung-pun
10,000= neung meun
100,000= neung san
1,000,000= neung-lan
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