Thai Language Thai Culture: Is That a Gan in Your Pocket?
Is that a กัน /gan/ in your pocket?… One thing I like to do as a vocabulary building exercise is when I come across a … Read more
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Is that a กัน /gan/ in your pocket?… One thing I like to do as a vocabulary building exercise is when I come across a … Read more
The Do-Be-Do-Be-Do system of learning Thai tones… (Apologies to Frank Sinatra) If language were like a song, then the vocabulary and grammar of the language … Read more
A Sticky Problem… I was reading one of those Thai expat blogs recently when I came across someone discussing the Thai word for “stingy” (seems … Read more
I’m not rine, thank you very much… From my years of teaching English I have learned that there is a two-line dialog that is ingrained … Read more
Rosetta Stone* Methodology… *After the stone and not the expensive software In her interviews of Thai speakers, Catherine likes to ask if we have ever … 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