Finding the Tone of a Thai Syllable
Tones Thai syllables… Thai children can apply the tone rules long before they can explain them. This is because they learn words in groups with … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: A “G” Rated Look at Thai Sex Words
A “G” Rated Look at Thai Sex Words… Thai, like any other robust language, has lots and lots of words for “sex” and all the … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Non-Synonymous Synonyms
Non-Synonymous Synonyms… As often happens, a mistake I made in speaking Thai has led me to thinking about things to share with our readers. In … Read more
Thai Politics on Facebook: Manee Has a Chair
Manee gets into Thai politics on Facebook… Monday (tomorrow) is the big kickoff for #BKKshutdown. On twitter the protests are also hashed as #BangkokShutdown and … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Thai Words for This Time of Political Unrest
Thai Words for This Time of Political Unrest… Things in Thailand have warmed up once again (not talking about the weather this time) and a … Read more
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Yes/No Question Patterns
Yes/No Question Patterns… In this latest posting we will use the vocabulary from the High Frequency Thai Vocabulary List to work with Yes/No question patterns. … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Asking for Directions in Thailand
Asking for Directions in Thailand… After my last post, Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?, I received an interesting link to a posting on … Read more
Onomatopoeic Words in the Thai Language
Written Sound: Onomatopoeic words in Thai… Learning about onomatopoeic words in the Thai language has been quite the experience. It all started when @babla tweeted … Read more
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Adjective Pattern Sounds
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Adjective Pattern Sounds… As promised, here are the sound files to the Adjective Patterns post. Apologies for it taking so … Read more
Thai Language Thai Culture: Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?
Do Thais Want Me to Speak Thai?… Since I have been submitting a bit of grammar in the series Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary, I … Read more
Please Vote to add Thai Language to LingQ!
Please Vote to add the Thai Language to LingQ… We need your help getting Thai on LingQ. At present, LingQ supports about 10 languages including … Read more
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Adjective Patterns
Using High Frequency Thai Vocabulary: Adjective Patterns… Adjectives are words that describe nouns. Thai and English treat adjectives a bit differently. The word order is … Read more