If you never learn Thai before or never hear Thai word before I suggest you should practice to say the phase with 2 -3 words together and there are 5 tones sound in Thai.
- ( -) This mark represent mid tone
- (\) This mark represent low tone
- (^) This mark represent falling tone
- (/) This mark represent high tone
- (v) This mark represent rising tone
This 5 tones mark you see on top of Thai word or syllable, It just to help foreigners who don’ t want to learn the real Thai word. Because Thai don’t use English, Romanize or Karaoke. The romanization is use to help foreigners to get into the sound when we compare to Thai word. So if you start to learn Thai word with romanization or karaoke way from different website or different teacher or different school. They will use their own romanization . The best way is start to learn Thai consonants and Thai vowels. When you can already remember consonants and vowels already then it will be easy to learn Thai word form actual real Thai word.
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kâ/kráb ค่ะ /ครับ
- Thai particle word put in the end of phase or sentence to be polite when you speak to the person you don’t know.
- kâ ค่ะ = for female speaker
- kráb ครับ = for male speaker
- sà-wàd-dēe kâ/sà-wàd-dēe kráb สวัสดีค่ะ / สวัสดีครับ
- Hello ===> for female speaker you say “sà-wàd-dēe kâ”
- Hello ===> for male speaker you say ” sà-wàd-dēe kráb”
- châi ใช่
- Yes
- mâi châi ไม่ใช่
- No , Not, It is not.
- kòrb-kūn ขอบคุณ
- Thank you
- āo ān-née เอา อันนี้
- I want this one.
- āo เอา + object /noun = want
- mâi āo….. ไม่ เอา
- I don’t want….
- mâi ไม่ = no,not
- mâi mēe ไม่ มี
- Not have, doesn’t have, don’t have, It doesn’t have, I don’t have
- mēe มี = have
- mâi pèd ไม่เผ็ด
- Not spicy
- pèd เผ็ด = spicy
- ān-née tâo-rài? อันนี้ เท่าไหร่
- How much is this one?
- tâo-rài เท่าไหร่ = how much
- ān-née à-rāi? อันนี้ อะไร
- What is this one?
- à-rāi อะไร = what
- chég-bīn / gèb dtāng เช็คบิล/ เก็บตัง
- Bill please, Check please
- bīn บิล = bill : Thai don’t have final sound ‘L’. So for every final sound L become N sound.
- gèb เก็บ = collect, keep
- dtāng ตัง = money
- pôod Thāi mâi-dâi พูด ไทย ไม่ได้
- I cannot speak Thai
- pôod พูด = speak
- mâi-dâi ไม่ได้ = cannot
- Pôod cháa cháa พูด ช้าๆ
- Speak slowly
- cháa ช้า = slow
- cháa cháa ช้าๆ = slowly : Thai repeat 2 times adjective to emphasis the word
- mâi kâo-jāi ไม่เข้าใจ
- I don’t understand
- kâo เข้า = enter, come in
- jāi ใจ = heart : to enter into the heart of other person ,that really mean you really understand people inside of thier mind and heart.
- There are many Thai word use the word ” jāi ใจ “
- hôrng-nám yòo têe-năi ห้องน้ำ อยู่ ที่ไหน
- Where is the toilet
- hôrng ห้อง = room
- nám น้ำ = water
- yòo อยู่ = verb to be (use with location,place)
- têe-năi ที่ไหน = where?
- bpāi …….mái ? ไป ….. ไหม
- Do you go…..? (Use when you ask Taxi, sometimes Thai Taxi could deny passenger )
- mái ไหม = question word in Thai : put in the end of phase or statement, use to get information (this word is high tone word.Please donot confuse with the word ‘mâi ไม่ = no’
- liáw sáay เลี้ยวซ้าย
- Turn left
- liáw เลี้ยว = to turn
- sáay ซ้าย = left
- liáw kwăa เลี้ยวขวา
- Turn right
- kwăa ขวา = right
- dtrōng bpāi ตรงไป
- Straight
Listen 20 useful phase in Thai: