Classifier or unit count (คำลักษณนาม) is essential when you count something in Thai language, so if you would like to speak like a Thai knowing how to use unit count is a must. The pattern is noun (something you are counting) + amount + classifier
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Thailand Madly in Love with Valentine’s Day
Sawatdii ka, Love is in the air, Valentine’s day is coming. Valentine’s Day is an excuse for shopping, eating out, gimmicks and, of course, getting married. A large number of couples are expected to queue to register their marriages at municipal offices in Bangkok’s district of Bang Rak (บางรัก), which translates as the “love district,” [...]
Learn Thai – giving a compliment and more slang
Sawatdee ka, I was at my parent’s home with my younger brother and sister a few weeks ago, I asked them to make a Thai lesson video together. You will learn a few more Thai slang in this video. I hope you like it. See below to learn what were said in the role [...]
Learn Thai – hear or listen
Sawatee ka, I got a question from one of my Youtube viewers, and got this same question before several times. The question is “When do we use ฟัง/fang/ and ได้ยิน/dâi-yin/ ?
Mother’s Day (วันแม่แห่งชาติ)
Mother’s Day Celebrations in Thailand In Thailand, 12th of August is celebrated as the birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit. As the Queen is also regarded as mother to all Thai people, this day is also celebrated as ‘Mother’s Day’ (วันแม่). The celebrations for the Queen and for mother are being held every year [...]
Useful Thai word a day
Look at this funny face of this cat. I can’t stop laughing. I think he might ate too fast. lol In Thai language this is called ติดคอ [dtìd-kaw] meaning get stuck in the throat. ติด [dtìd] means get stuck คอ [kaw] means throat or neck กินช้าๆเดี๋ยวติดคอนะคะ [gin cháa- cháa dĭao dtìt kaw ná ká] Eat slowly [...]
Learn Thai – Present Continuous (What are you doing?)
Sawatdee ka, I have got few questions regarding ‘present continuous’ or verb with “-ing” expressing action that is happening at the moment speaking such as ‘I am eating’, ‘she is cooking etc. The full pattern in Thai is: gam-lang + verb/verb phrase + yùu In spoken Thai we often drop either the word ‘gamlang’ or ‘yùu’. [...]
Learn Thai – Enjoy!
Sawatdee ka, When you would like to wish Thai people ‘Have a good trip’, ‘enjoy your meal’, ‘enjoy your movie’ etc. you can easily use the following pattern: VERB + ให้ hâi (for) + ADJECTIVE * ให้ hâi (for) + ADJECTIVE = ADVERB For example;
Learn useful Thai words from Thai ad
Sawatdee ka, This ad is interesting in my opinion, it is encouraging women to see the value in themselves. We can also learn many useful words from this clip, especially one question word that is being repeated throughout the clip. I put subtitle both in Thai, phonetics and English in the video. From the video, [...]
Thai polite title
Sawatdee ka, I have seen many people misuse the polite title คุณ [kun]. When I write emails, I use the greeting “sawatdee ka Kun…”. Many times people wrote me or replied my email refer to themselves “Kun…” as well. I would like to clarify this misunderstanding. The word คุณ [kun] is put before first names or [...]
Learn Thai from the year of the Dragon
Sawatdee ka, In Chinese Astrology 2012 is the Year of the Dragon. The Year of the Dragon will start on 23 January 2012 and end on 09 February 2013. What kind of year will 2012 be? Many expect 2012 to bring about the end of the world. I have no idea myself, I only make the best [...]
Learn Thai – understand Thai verb ‘to be’
I always say that if you want to speak Thai correctly, one of the first things you should learn is “Thai verb to be” because it is different from English. Thai uses several different verbs to translate English ‘is/am/are’, ‘was/were’. The most important are เป็น [bpen] , อยู่ [yùu] and คือ [kue] 1. เป็น [bpen] [...]
Learn Thai expression – “get the hell away from me”
Sawatdee ka, Please don’t be frighten to see me teaching you this expression. It is not that I got aggressive all of the sudden LOL. I write this lesson to answer a question I got from a YouTube viewer. His question is “ How do you say in thai ‘get the hell away from me, I thought you were [...]
Learn Thai from a song – what’s wrong?
Sawatdee ka, Yesterday I was a little bit unwell so I had an idea of making this lesson. I also found a song that has the same expression in the lyrics, so I put a few sentences from the song here as I thought it might help you remember the expression better Please listen to [...]
New Year Thai greeting and wishes
Sawatdee ka, New Year 2012 is approaching in less than two weeks, so let’s learn how to greet your Thai friends and love ones on New Year. Also learn how to give wishes like a Thai. From the video, you can apply giving wishes expression on any occasion, weather it is birthday, farewell, wedding etc. [...]
Learn Thai – Happy Thanksgiving
Sawatdee ka, Please don’t get me wrong that Thai people also celebrate Thanksgiving day. I was in the States for 3 months when I was 20 and had many American friends. Also my Google Analytics report shows that most visitors of my website are in America:) So I would like to take this opportunity to wish you [...]
Say it right! – Orange or Fork
Sawatdee ka, There are Thai words that sound almost exactly the same. The difference is sometimes the vowel; short vowel or long vowel, or the tone. First pair of common words is ส้ม [sôm] = orange, and ส้อม [sôrm] = fork The word orange is short vowel but the word fork is long vowel (it sounds [...]
Personal pronouns in Thai language.
Sawatdee ka, In English the pronoun “you” is good to use to call anyone whether he/she is older or younger than you, even at the same age. Thai culture is based on people’s seniority, so it is not nice and polite to call people who are older than you only by their names. Then what we [...]
Thai language tips – verb to want
Sawatdee ka tuk-kon; Hi everyone, Today I have a basic verb that is often mistakenly used, verb to “want” = อยาก [yàak] The reason that makes many people confused when using this word is in English you can say I want beer., she wants a Porche. [ verb to want + object], BUT in Thai [...]
Learn Thai – Halloween
Sawatdee ka, As a multi-culture city, Halloween is also celebrated here in Bangkok. I would like to share Halloween related vocabulary Thinking of Halloween, I am firstly thinking of GHOST! ผี [pĕe] I don’t like talking about ghost at all since I am super scared [กลัว glua] of them. มดกลัวผีมากค่ะ I don’t even watch ghost [...]
