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Thai script was invented by King Ramkhamhaeng (พ่อขุนรามคำแหง) in the year 1283. It has been used by the Thai people for as long as 734 years!…
Continue reading The Inventor of the Thai ScriptDid you know?
Thai script was invented by King Ramkhamhaeng (พ่อขุนรามคำแหง) in the year 1283. It has been used by the Thai people for as long as 734 years!…
Continue reading The Inventor of the Thai ScriptDid you know? We use the same word for “bean”, “nut” and “pea” in Thai. To us, they are all “ถั่ว (tùa).”
ถั่วแดง [tùa daeng] red bean
ถั่วเขียว [tùa kiǎw] mung bean
ถั่วขาว [tuà kǎao] white bean
ถั่วดำ [tùa dam] black bean
ถั่วเหลือง [tùa leuǎng] soy bean
ถั่วฝักยาว [tùa fàk yaao] green bean
ถั่วงอก [tùa ngâwk] bean sprout
ถั่วลันเตา [tùa lan tao] snow pea
ถั่วลูกไก่ [tùa lûuk gài] chickpea
ถั่วลิสง [tùa lí sǒng] peanut
(ถั่ว)พิสทาชิโอ [tùa pít taa shi ô] pistachio
(ถั่ว)อัลมอนด์ [(tùa) ao mâwn] almond
(ถั่ว)มะม่วงหิมพานต์ [(tùa) má mûang hǐmmápaan] cashew nut…
Don’t be afraid to be judged when you speak a foreign language that you’re not very comfortable with. There is no need to feel embarrassed even if you make a mistake or if your pronunciation is not perfect because often, people who laugh at you don’t even have the courage you do.…
Continue reading Don’t Be Shy to Speak Thai!Examples of new vocabulary: Head, face, eye, hair, symptom, to feel pain, it’s time to…, to be ready, cute, baby, to be born.…
Continue reading Creamy Coconut 26: Unlike Father, Unlike SonWe saw this tweet on Twitter and thought it would be interesting for you guys to learn this word, “เสือก [seùak]” so we translated the tweet for you. It is a bad word but definitely worth knowing. Thai people use it all the time. First, read the tweet.
สิ่งที่ทำ
(sìng tîi tam)
มัน: ยิ้มไรอะ คุยกับใคร
(man: yím rai à, kui gàp khrai)
กู: เปล่าค่ะ
(guu: plào kâ)
มัน: เปล่าอะไรเห็นยิ้ม แฟนหรอ
(man: plào arai hěn yím, fan rǎw?)…
เมื่อไหร่ที่รู้สึกว่าชีวิตไม่มีค่า
[mêurài tîi rúu sèuk wâa chiiwít mâi mii kâa]
Whenever you feel like your life is worthless,
จงออกไปช่วยเหลือเพื่อนมนุษย์
[jong àwk pai chûai lěua pêuan manút]
go out to help fellow human beings.…
ถึงเวลา [těung welaa] + verb + แล้ว [léaw]
= It’s time to….
ถึงเวลาเข้านอนแล้ว
[těung welaa kâo nawn léaw]
It’s time to go to bed
ถึงเวลากินข้าวแล้ว
[těung welaa gin kâao léaw]
It’s time to eat.
ถึงเวลาเรียนภาษาไทยแล้ว
[těung welaa rian paasǎa Thai léaw]
It’s time to study Thai.…
คนดีสำคัญกว่าทุกสิ่ง
[kon dii sǎmkan gwàa túk sìng]
Being a good person is more important than anything else.
เห็นด้วยไหมคะ
[hěn dûai mái ká]
Do you agree?
– – – – – V o c a b – – – – – (^ 3 ^)/*
คนดี [[kon dii]: good person
สำคัญ [sǎmkan]: important
กว่า [gwàa ]: than
ทุกสิ่ง [túk sìng]: everything
เห็นด้วย [hěn dûai]: to agree …
There are a lot of people of Chinese ancestry living in Thailand, especially in Bangkok. The dialect they use within their families is called “the Teochew dialect.” A lot of words from this dialect are understood by many Thai people. “อากู๋” [aa gǔu] is a Teochew word that refers to “a brother of one’s mother” or “maternal uncle.”…
Continue reading [Thai Slang] อากู๋ (aa gǔu) = Googleต้นไม้ [tôn máai] = tree
ต้น [tôn] + tree name = ….. tree
Example:
ดอกซากุระ [dàwk sakura]: Cherry blossom
ต้นซากุระ [tôn sakura]: Cherry tree
Photo taken by Yuki Tachaya at Big Bear city, California…
Continue reading Trees & FlowersExamples of new vocabulary: T-shirt, skirt, shorts, raincoat, jacket, pajamas, design, every, this one, body, background, inch, oneself.…
Continue reading Creamy Coconut 23: Shopping for the Whole FamilyDid you know that it’s very easy to convert the Christian Era or the Common Era (CE: ค.ศ. คริสต์ศักราช, [krítsàkkaràat]) to the Buddhist Era (BE: พ.ศ. พุทธศักราช, [pútthasàkkaràat])? You can do that just by adding “543” to the Christian era.
For example,
2016 + 543 = 2559
ค.…
When you learn that you have a new project/assignment/gig coming up, you can use the phrase “งานเข้า” [ngaan kâo], of which the literal meaning is “a job/project came in.” Usually, it is a good thing when that happens but since you won’t be available to do anything else except for working on that project, it could be considered a bad thing as well.…
Continue reading Popular Slang: “งานเข้า” [ngaan kâo]