If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Learning Thai numbers is similar to English in difficulty and structure. The only real difference is with numbers greater than a thousand but less than a million. You’ll find the list of Thai numbers below to help you learn to [...]

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I found it easy to learn and remember colours in Thai; I hope you will too.
If you want to say “the colour black” or “the colour red” in Thai you use the word ‘see‘ (ie. see dam = black and see daeng = red).
But when you are using the colour as an adjective, [...]

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Here’s a list of Thai words that you should be able to internalize immediately and retain for your entire life. Your Thai vocabulary just expanded!
Piano = piano
Guitar = guitar
Saxaphone = saxaphone
footbann = football
basketbann = basketball
basebann = baseball
volleybann = volleyball
tennis = tennis
rugby = rugby
golf = golf
TeeWee = TV
computer = computer
MP-sahm = MP3
Pizza = pizza
bia = [...]

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Here’s an opportunity to learn a few simple words that can be grouped to add over three dozen words to your Thai vocabulary. Have a look at the list below:
Lom (rhymes with ‘home‘) means wind or breeze
Lom yen = cool breeze
Pad lom = fan (for circulating air)
Lom toot = passing wind; flatulence; a fart
Yen means [...]

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Thai Names
Thai people have three names:

First Name
Last Name
Nickname

First Names & Nicknames
It’s possible that I was misled, but the story I got on nicknames was as follows:
Thai people take their children to the temple when they are 30 days old, where the monk gives them their first name. The name is chosen to be auspicious [...]

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I’ve finally decided to apply myself and learn Thai.  I’ve tried in the past.  I’ve bought the CDs and books and I usually get one or two chapters into them and then I lose interest.  Then the books and the CDs collect dust for a few months until I pull them out and get to [...]

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One day I was surprised to find out that I had offended one of the female Thai teachers from my school. The truth is that, during an informal chit-chat, I might have used Thai slang, and thus I involuntarily offended the Thai teacher I was conversing with.
The funny thing was that I found out about [...]

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The main problem with learning to speak Thai is that the basis of the language is not European-based. English and the other Euro languages have Latin, Greek, Viking, etc., roots; Thai does not, so you have to memorize hundreds, if not thousands, of strange and unrelated sounds. This is difficult, unless you use some sort [...]

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As anyone who has tried learning Thai knows, it is a very difficult language, the basics are easy enough but the tones are the real killer. Thai is a tonal language, the same word can have up to 5 meanings depending on the tone used. Tones are a completely foreign concept to westerners, we simply [...]

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