Thai Language Thai Culture: Thai Tone Twisters
Thai Tone Twisters… A lot of Thai learners are familiar with a number of tongue twisters that illustrate how different tones and consonants can make … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Old Snake Heads and Butterflies of the Night
Old Snake Heads and Butterflies of the Night… The Thai language is as rich in metaphor as any language is. The kinds of metaphors that … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Telling Tails – Thai Ending Particles
Telling tails – Thai ending particles… It is important to learn how to use Thai ending particles. The most common and well known are ครับ … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Telephone Thai
Talking Thai on the telephone… It probably took me ten years before I could understand anything anyone said on the telephone here in Thailand. It’s … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Ten Steps to Learning Thai
Ten steps to learning Thai… Note: This is dedicated to people like Catherine Wentworth who are working their patooties off trying to grasp this outlandishly … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Talking About the Weather
Talking about the weather… What better way to break the ice and start a conversation than to talk about the weather? I know it is … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Perfectly Good Thai Words
Loan words by any other name… A long while ago I did a research paper that got published in Passa, the Chulalongkorn Linguistics publication, about … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Looking for Rhymes in all the Wrong Places
Thai music goes from classical, to country, folk, popular, and more… A while ago I was reading one of those Thai expat blogs. You know, … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: And the Honor goes to…
Is it Kun, Pêe, Aa-jaann, or Pôo yài Moo?… There used to be a time in the west when calling a person by their first … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: What’s There “to Know”?
Thai language and Thai culture go hand in hand… Thai, just like any language, has multiple ways to say the same things. And culture has … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Pali and Sanskrit Roots
Pali and Sanskrit roots of Thai words… Have you ever seen those brilliant kids in the national spelling bees? When given a word to spell, … Read more