Thai Language In The Real Thailand
Thai Language
Thai Language is a tonal language and uses 5 tones. It originates from Southern India.
Thai has its own script and is alphabet based, (as opposed to Chinese which uses symbols for complete words) Thai has 44 consonants and
32 vowels.
Look at the table at the bottom of the page to see how school children learn the alphabet.
Your Thai friends will be more than pleased if you make an effort to learn some basic Thai.
Here are a few Thai phrases to be going on with.
These phrases below are all from the point of view of a man speaking. It is the gender of the speaker which varies the phrase very
slightly, so if you're a lady you will need to substitute the Thai word "krap" at the end for the word "kaa".
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hello
are you well?
what is your name?
are you hungry?
do you want to eat?
my name is….
it doesn’t matter
I understand
I don’t understand
today
tomorrow
yesterday
thank you
no thank you
sorry (apologise)
yes
no
where is the toilet?
Can I have the bill?
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sa-wadee krap
sa-bai dee mai?
khun cheu arai?
heel mai?
tarn cow mai?
pom cheu….
mai pen rai
pom cow jai
pom mai cow jai
wan nee
prung nee
meu wan
corb khun krap
mai ow krap
kor tort krap
chai
mai chai
hong nam you tee nai?
checkbin krap
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