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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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